Selling your Web2.0 company on eBay: should I do it?
Preople.com is a project I started as a joke and which lots of people found extremely funny. You can enter your name and find out your Preople Rank. Your Preople rank tells you how famous you are on the web. I spend about three months working on it before I moved on to more interesting projects.
So far more than 1.000.000 people have searched for a name and gotten a rank back and 3000+ maintain a permanent personal profile + blog.
Last night I read a post on Techcrunch about people who sell their companies on eBay. Now I’m considering to do the same with Preople.
Is that a good idea? Is it a good way to find a new home for a service?
Does it look like you NEED to sell?
Is it pathetic or cool?
Looking forward to receive some feedback on this, or a good offer…
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September 23, 2006 @ 2:25 pm (14:25)
Depends on what you’re goals are I guess. Do you think you have done all you can for the project and that it needs a new home where it can grow more? Like Zookoda. Are you not willing to spent more hours developing and maintaining it at the cost of other projects? Like Kiko. Etc.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
September 23, 2006 @ 2:35 pm (14:35)
I think Preople is a cool project and could add value to another website or company. So yeah, I think I’m done with Preople and would like to transfer it to someone else.
erik said,
September 23, 2006 @ 8:57 pm (20:57)
I agree with you both. The idea has shown his value and deserves to grow to it’s full potential.
And if ebay is the way to do it. So be it.