Comments on: What is Oodle Going To Buy With $11 Million? http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/oodle-buy/ The pulse of the small unit rental market. Dave Dugdale reports what he sees in the online rental market place. Dave also provides a podcast show called RadioVine which is on a separate feed from this one. Visit www.rentvine.com/anc/radiovine.cfm for the shows and feed. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Murch http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/oodle-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-1452 Steve Murch Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:19:30 +0000 http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/oodle-buy/#comment-1452 Personally, I think things don't look bright for classified-ad sites that don't have a good way to monetize the ultimate transaction that is advertised: http://stevemurch.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/the_coming_demi.html Personally, I think things don’t look bright for classified-ad sites that don’t have a good way to monetize the ultimate transaction that is advertised: http://stevemurch.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/the_coming_demi.html

]]> By: Jason N. http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/oodle-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 Jason N. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:17:31 +0000 http://www.rentvine.com/blog/index.php/oodle-buy/#comment-1445 Wow. 11 million. What will they do with it? Some Guesses 1 ) Ramp up technical and sales staff to continue to work on the search algorithm and to continue to crawl as many classifieds sites as possible. They are up to 75,000 now. For this type of search technology a staff of 100 would be about right. 50% technical and 50% Sales and Operations. On average a 50K Salary would be be 5,000,00 a year in salaries. 2) Aquire small feature rich sites that add value to their current service offerings. i.e. cell phone technology, etc, Overall I think it is the human capital that they needed the "capital" for to ramp up as quickly as possible and then get gobbled up by a Yahoo, Google or MSN. Prediction: Within 2 years will be acquired for over 100 million and will have annual earnings of 10 - 20 million. A purchase of 10xs earnings is very likely. Wow. 11 million. What will they do with it?

Some Guesses

1 ) Ramp up technical and sales staff to continue to work on the search algorithm and to continue to crawl as many classifieds sites as possible. They are up to 75,000 now.

For this type of search technology a staff of 100 would be about right. 50% technical and 50% Sales and Operations. On average a 50K Salary would be be 5,000,00 a year in salaries.

2) Aquire small feature rich sites that add value to their current service offerings. i.e. cell phone technology, etc,

Overall I think it is the human capital that they needed the “capital” for to ramp up as quickly as possible and then get gobbled up by a Yahoo, Google or MSN.

Prediction: Within 2 years will be acquired for over 100 million and will have annual earnings of 10 – 20 million. A purchase of 10xs earnings is very likely.

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