Tech Stock P/E Ratio Estimates for 2013

Facebook’s valuation may still be considered high until they sort out their long term advertising stability, but how does it compare the the P/E ratio’s of other Tech companies?

The below graphic (copyright of Business Insider) gives an interesting comparison. Amazon is higher as they are heavily investing in (selling Kindle’s for at or below cost) many different long term growth areas and LinkedIn has string multi channel revenues. Perhaps still, LinkedIn may be a tad high.

Google looks like a bargain compared to Facebook. More on below at Business Insider and a financial comparison of LinkedIn v Facebook.

Source of data: Business Insider

Is London’s Tech City Investment Organisation Haunted

Facebook’s EMEA’s VP / MD Joanna Shields is off to head up London’s Tech City Investment Organisation, but one minute…is TCIO haunted?

Look below and you’ll see Ben Southworth seems etherial. Ben is the TCIO’s Deputy CEO and Head of Community and while I am sure he is there for the long haul, spookily enough his (Halloween flavored perhaps) image on the TCIO website is ghostly. Not to mention a slightly worrying The Omen style cross through his photo. Check it out yourself before it gets changed.   Trick or treat?

Web Startups Goldman Sachs Rate as Early Stage IPO Candidates

What smaller web companies may be early stage IPO candidates?

On 29th & 30th November Goldman Sachs held it’s Private Internet Company Conferencein Las Vegas. The event was essentially a networker for around 40 companies they feel have a good chance of IPO and a guest list of various other influential characters. For an overview of the event go to TechCrunch coverage of A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO  . Below is a list of companies who were featured at the event.

Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO
Airbnb	One Kings Lane
Beachmint	Peixe Urbano
Beauchamp	Polyvore
Birchbox	Quantcast
Bluekai	Quora
Badoo	Rent The Runway
BOKU	Rue la la
Box.net	Rovio
BranchOut	Shopkick
Cloudflare	Specific Media
Coupons.com	Survey Monkey
DropBox	Square
Eventbrite	TrialPay
Gogobot	Trunk Club
Hipmunk	Tumblr
Instagram	Uber
Jawbone	Warby Parker
Klout	WePay
Narrative Science	Xoom
Ness computing	ZocDoc
Pinterest	Zoosk