Ryan Jacob
Ryan Jacob
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Something has changed (with Internet investing). You don't have the craziness of a wild IPO market.
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I think everybody has been surprised at the speed of evolution we've seen in the sector. Usually new technologies take quite a while to catch on. The Internet has really changed the rules.
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Valuations in general for e-commerce companies have been historically higher than we've been comfortable with and they have low operating margins. So it's an area we've shied away from.
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Right now investors are looking at any earnings reports as the glass half-empty rather than half-full.
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Software.net has the potential of being a leader in this space and there are clear comparisons to Egghead.com, and also to some of the online companies that sell CDs. They're really not that much different.
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When companies first come public, there's a lot of hype, anticipation. The company is out hyping the IPO on a road show and investors get very excited and they might pay a bit higher than they may in normal situations.
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For many of the Internet leaders, you're paying a high valuation with only modestly higher growth prospects.
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It's pretty clear the fourth quarter of last year was pretty horrific, and we didn't need much of a bounce to post these kind of returns.
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The news flow (from companies) is still quite negative.
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Everyone's expecting, and should expect, that these companies will continue to post very impressive gains. A lot of these companies are still growing 30-50 percent per quarter. There will be other issues that people will be looking at. With Yahoo!, it may not be just revenues, it may be page views. With an Amazon, it may not just be revenues, it may be number of new customers they've acquired over the last quarter.
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The biggest change in the past five years is that you can find very reasonably priced companies and most are making money. That's obviously a big change from the late 90's when these companies were just starting out.
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It was a very positive sign. I think a lot of people were expecting a little sell-off.
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We're focusing on companies that will be long-term players on the Internet.
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Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.