Archive for June 2008
LinkedIn today announced it raised $53 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1 billion. The new round is led by Bain Capital, bringing the total money raised by the company to about $80 million. The latest valuation: $1 billion.
Vista Print sells business cards for the same price that other companies charge for shipping. Does anybody know how they do that? By ‘hiding’ the cost in the shipping fees:
Slow: 21 Days – $9.19
Standard: 14 Days – $13.19
Priority: 7 Days – $17.44
Rush+: 3 Business Days – $29.48
On actual cost of about $1.45.
Peet the Pink Elephant probably sounds like a really dumb title. But there’s a reason I chose this moniker, and it has to do with the way self-pronounced search engine marketing experts (SEO) market their “services” and pretend they pull some magic out of their (pink) hats.
So, while I thought Peet had died a few years ago while doing some basic optimization for a friend recently I came across some of his foot steps (they were imprinted in the face of a friend of mine in form of a questionmark).
The rest of the Peet the Pink Elephant story will follow when Google tells me to finish it 😉
