Goodrich emailed Cook backwards and bcc’d us with his response: no deal. I asked Goodrich, who I don’t know, ground he derived us on the telecommunicate string. His response: “I won’t do that again, I intellection techcrunch would encounter it interesting.”
Interesting indeed. I desire every apprize founders did this. The telecommunicate progress is below, with whatever occurrence aggregation removed. I’m trusty Cook is thrilled.
Sorry, you were bcc’d on the email.
I won’t do that again, I intellection techcrunch would encounter it interesting.
Best,
Jeremy Goodrich
Co-founder, FunAdvice
On 4/30/09, archangel Arrington wrote:
why am I cc’d on this?
On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Info Funadvice wrote:
Hi Geoff-
First, we’re truly flattered that MyYearBook would be fascinated in feat FunAdvice.com. I’m composition this baritone the hypothesis this is a actual substance and not whatever prank.
In saucer of fact, our March drawing were farther higher than contend would declare – 3.7 meg visitors and 3.4 meg uniques…as we wager you are a “quantified” publisher, I encounter it odd, but interesting, that you would name our contend stats kinda than the much higher quantcast drawing (which are pretty near to reality, for our US audience).
As we hit grown 300% assemblage over assemblage (yes, you feature that correctly) scrutiny April, 2009 with April, 2009…well, your appraisal would seem to massively gauge the continuance of FunAdvice. Based on Answerbag’s acquisition by InfoSearch Media (later re-sold to Demand) and the understanding of faqfarm.com to Wiki.Answers…and, of course, Yedda by AOL…well, permit me place this added way.
On Quantcast, it shows that your *monthly* uniques are most 2x our size:
http://www.quantcast.com/myyearbook.com (those are your actual unequalled numbers…correct?)
In some event, your income judge was soured by a bourgeois of ten…so, unless we could apprize conversation from the aforementioned inclose of reference…then, I’m not trusty we crapper apprize nervy with a earnest acquisition
discussion.
Best,
Jeremy Goodrich
Co-founder & President, FunAdvice
http://www.funadvice.com/my/thedude
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:26 PM, wrote:
Jeremy,
I’ve been mass funadvice.com and conceive you’ve shapely discover a
great place on a baritone budget, which is a large achievement.
I’m not trusty if you would contemplate an acquisition discussion, but it appears to me, supported on compete.com data, that funadvice.com has 1.3M uniques and 4.2M pageviews in March. I?m not trusty what your revenues are, but I would derive most $4200 per month.
If those base assumptions are in the correct ballpark, we?d be
prepared to offer, forward we apprehended reciprocation sources sufficiency to see reciprocation would not bob on your exit:
? $125,000 Cash Up Front
? $25,000 Cash After Successful Migration of Funadvice to our servers (would wait 3 mos or less) as a consulting fee
? $125,000 in Stock in myYearbook supported on the appraisal of our terminal round.
Please apprize if you would be fascinated in much a deal. We hit the budget to attain exclusive 1 much substance this lodge so I would revalue a salutation in the relatively brief term, as I exclusive hit 1 substance unpaid at some presented moment.
If you?d same to intercommunicate more, I crapper be reached at 609-xxx-xxxx.
Sincerely,
Geoff Cook
CEO, myYearbook
