vorgeschlagen - und jetzt machen sie das ja auch in etwa so, aber leider wurden vorher zig Millionen unsinnig vergeudet. Das Geschäfsmodell von My Hammer ist zwar also inzwischen okay, aber irgendwo muss Kohle herkommen.
Schwierig ist zu beruteilen: Wie schneiden dabei die bisherigen Anteilseigner ab? Vielleicht ist daher der momentane Preis doch gerechtfertigt. Wenn man sicher sein könnte, dass Holtzbrink durchfüttern, auf jeden Fall - aber auch das ist eine schwer zu beantwortende Frage.
Thumbtack Aims To Make Yellow Pages Of The New Age, Raises $30 Million
It took some time before Sequoia Capital showed it really believed in Thumbtack. After first meeting the San Francisco-based startup’s cofounders Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson in June 2010, Sequoia’s partners knew that the company, a marketplace that connect consumers to local service professionals, had potential.
“Local services is an enormous market–$600 billion–so there was really no questions there,” said Sequoia Partner Bryan Schreier, reflecting on his early impressions of Thumbtack. Yet, while the founders checked the right boxes, he remembered, the business plan was still a little unclear.
Fast-forward nearly four years later, and Sequoia seems to have dumped those doubts. On Thursday, Thumbtack announced that it had raised $30 million in a round co-led by the Menlo Park, Calif-base venture capital firm and Tiger Global Management. The five-year-old company, which did not disclose a valuation, has raised $49 million to date, previously taking a $12.5 million investment from Sequoia in June 2013. The recent round was first reported by TechCrunch.
Thumbtack’s latest raise is validation that it’s moving in the right direction to provide a better way to connect consumers that need professional help, including window cleaners, wedding DJs and plumbers. While companies like Yelp YELP +1.21% and Angie's List ANGI -14.11% have created sites where users can go online and find ratings, reviews and contact information for local businesses, Thumbtack has given consumers a way to specifically dictate their needs, allowing interested professionals on the service to compete for a given project.
Source: Forbes |
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