New rules: The reverse ten-bagger is the model for success

By Tom Foremski - December 12, 2005

Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher

Ten-Bagger.jpgThere's no doubt about it, Google's patina of goodwill is dissolving. I'm hearing a fair amount of anti-GOOG chatter all over the place.

Personally, I still like Google. I still feel that I get a whole lot more out of Google than Google gets out of me as an internet user.

In many ways, Google exemplifies what I call one of the new rules of the new economy.

Old Rule: Success is the ten-bagger company--returning to its VCs/investors more than ten times their investment.

New Rule: Success is the reverse ten-bagger--the company that monetizes ten per cent or less of the business opportunities it has.

Otherwise it is not providing enough value to its customers and it will be considered as trying to fleece its users.


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People may not like google, but they sure use it. 90% of our general search engine referrals are google (remainder split between msn and yahoo, but wikipedia-specific referrals beat yahoo hands-down).
Google has been trending stronger in this regard over the last two years.
So the more people complain about it, the more they seem to use it, and vice versa.
Ah, for the rest of us to have such a problem. :-)

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