http://sawickipedia.com a geek's take on the world Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://sawickipedia.com/2007/05/26/people-search-worth-30-billion/ http://sawickipedia.com/2007/05/26/people-search-worth-30-billion/#comments Sat, 26 May 2007 18:59:07 +0000 Todd Sawicki http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/26/people-search-worth-30-billion/ Don Dodget does a great analysis this morning on what 1% of the search market is worth.  Putting my Spock hat on (disclosure – I did some work for them last winter), you can see why the market is excited about people search.  Assuming that people search in its broadest definition represents 30% of the search volume, then Spock’s playing in a market that could be worth $30 billion.  That’s a big market.  And it’s easy to see what David Stern & Bill Quigley from Clearstone Ventures and Ken Elefant from Opus Capital saw when they put in $8 million into Spock last fall.  And as a shareholder of Spock – I sure hope Don Dodge is right!

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