The publication Silicon Alley Insider published an annual ranking of the most valuable startups, the SAI 25, including two Russian companies there - ' Yandex ' and ' Ozone '.
In addition to the unknown status of the ' startup ' ( according to the text, refers to companies that may soon go public ), raise questions, and the valuation of companies in the peer ratings. ' Yandex ' was estimated at three billion dollars ( 6th place ), ' Ozone ' - 450 million ( 18th place ).
The numbers are absolutely subjective and have little relation to reality, they recognize and creators of SAI 25. For example, the social network Facebook is estimated by experts in the SAI nine billion, while last year a proposal to Microsoft bringing its market value to 15 billion. In this case, the authors propose ranking in ' real time ' to monitor how the value of the rating.
In the top -5, in addition to Zuckerberg brainchild, includes well-known Russians ' Wikipedia ' ( $ 7 billion. ), Bulletin board Craigslist ($ 5 billion. ) And Mozilla Corp ($ 4 billion. ). In the list of applicants for entry into the SAI25 can see no less interesting projects, waiting for their turn: Meebo, Metacafe, Digg and Twitter. However, in comments to the study of Silicon Alley Insider readers have already begun to complain about the lack of a list of some key sites, ranging from completely ignoring China's resources and ending with the lack of Wordpress.
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