How Does Goldman Sachs Make Its Profits

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University · 552 subscribers
Klout? Really? rofl.
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· Saturday at 8:54pm

Carl Petrou · London, United Kingdom
Ditto!
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· Saturday at 8:59pm
Mannar Karyampudi · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon
In this age of 'Social' madness, no surprises if Klout has a winner.
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· Saturday at 9:27pm
Jason McGowan · Top Commenter
I wouldn't be surprised if your Klout score drops tomorrow because of this comment... ;)
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Scott Wainner · Walnut Creek, California
This looks like a popularity contest more than a "most likely to succeed". Many of these companies are infants and need to undergo much growth to be contenders.
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· Saturday at 10:06pm

Muhammad Huzaifa · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
+100
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· Yesterday at 8:35am
Zachary Einzig · New York, New York
100% agree. Digging a little deeper you can see these companies have big names behind them, not big ideas.
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· Yesterday at 11:18am

David Manaster · New York, New York
This list is much more exciting & important than a $3.4 billion tech acquisition.
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· Saturday at 9:04pm

Ben White · Account Manager - Digital at Bite Communications
True but the $3.4bn one has a business model and actually makes money. Not sexy but fairly important given the IPO tech flops of late.
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· Saturday at 9:29pm
DeVon Harris · Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Think David is being sarcastic....
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· Saturday at 10:06pm
Rich Wang · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
There's at least one company on this list that actually makes money and has a business model more promising than that $3.4b one. Couldn't vouch for the rest though...
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Ricardo Solon · Top Commenter
some of them don't even have a business plan yet.....
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· Saturday at 9:50pm

Benjamin Dyer · Top Commenter · East Cowes, Isle Of Wight, United Kingdom
You know this how Ricardo?
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· Yesterday at 10:52am
Ricardo Solon · Top Commenter
Benjamin Dyer Let me rephrase that …Some of them are good businesses but many of them are far from IPO potential…Most of them don’t have a business plan yet or a business plan solid enough to justify an IPO unless they have too many investors and that’s another story.
It reminds me how crazy people were about a Pets.com IPO …. Don’t we learn from the past?
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· Yesterday at 11:59am
Justin Ptasnik · University of Colorado at Boulder
Who ever said you needed a business plan?>>
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Neto Working
Istagram, Klout, Tumblr and Quora.
All making negative profit. Why someone would buy a share of these companies. A share in what, the expenses?
I think Goldman Sachs made a simple crawler, they got the most entries in the crunchbase from 2009.

PS. btw, if Warby Parker makes an IPO, it will be the Hipster Revolution.
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· Saturday at 11:52pm

Alex Buran · Top Commenter · Founder at Translation Cloud
Seems like it is fun to be a part of companies making negative profits.

IMO, normal companies making hard, cold cash quietly serving enterprise customers and not dealing with free crap.
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· Yesterday at 6:43am
Ed Kennedy · Assurance Partner at Ernst & Young LLP
To say that a company has no IPO potential because it is currently making net losses is ridiculous. Every successful company in the tech world today made losses at one point in their history. Some for many years. Its called research and development and building a product and a vision.
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· 3 hours ago

Scott Robinson · Austin, Texas
Translation: These are the companies we'd like to take public because we get HUGE fees to underwrite them - very little downside to us.
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· Yesterday at 12:01pm

Bradley Chapman · Fort Worth, Texas
That's exactly right.
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· 23 hours ago
Vadim Berman · Top Commenter
So this is how it works. I was wondering where's the angle.
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· 19 hours ago

Thomas McGuire · Top Commenter
Huh, no Color... :)
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· Yesterday at 2:11am

Alex Buran · Top Commenter · Founder at Translation Cloud
Yeah, I am surprised! :)
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· Yesterday at 6:44am
Muhammad Huzaifa · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Color less list. :)
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· Yesterday at 8:36am

Chris Georgiev · Top Commenter · Marketing Director at StockPodium
Interesting list, will see if that's a wish list or prediction ;-) hope it may come true as some other startups will also follow ;-).
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· Yesterday at 9:01am

Shakil Ahmed · Stony Brook University
These are probably all the Companies that are funded by the VC's and the people affiliated to them.
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· Saturday at 9:02pm

Shakil Ahmed · Stony Brook University
Woo one and get em all.
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· Saturday at 9:08pm

Vic Singh · CEO at Tracks
Foursquare?
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· Saturday at 10:20pm

Bailey Jones
they make no money?
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· Saturday at 11:21pm
Jeff Durso · Top Commenter · MIT
but I heard a rumor they may be releasing a 5th square in 2012 - then the sky's the limit!
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· Yesterday at 4:39am
Nicholas Mathews · Co-founder, VP Marketing at Eye Spy
Jeff Durso You mean 5square. Yeah, it's like 4square except for medical professionals with hpv.
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Mark Mckenzie
Nothing like a bank sponsored event.

Nothing on their mind but money. Tosspots.
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· Yesterday at 4:01am

Zsolt Vasvari · Top Commenter · Owner at AnMoney Pte Ltd
Please give an extra $100k Christmas (holiday) Bonus to the Mr. Obvious analyst who came up with this list.
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· Saturday at 9:08pm

Trävis Wríght
No, this is worth a $1.25 Million dollar bonus, at least.
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· Saturday at 9:32pm

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
I like airbnb, but if it ever goes on for IPo. it would be shorted massively.
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· Saturday at 10:01pm

Bernhard Haidinger · Top Commenter
Groupon was the best short of my live. It will go down to zero imo and i 'll be fully participating in it
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· Yesterday at 11:29am
John Fig · Property Developer/Financial Analyst at KSDG
I don't believe that for a second. Airbnb provides real utility unlike most of these companies and has essentially disrupted the entire hospitality industry. Not to mention it has an actual business model and it turning a profit. This company is the exact opposite of groupon.
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· 18 hours ago
John Fig · Property Developer/Financial Analyst at KSDG
It also puts money back into the middle class and promotes micro-entrepreneurialism and because the users make money the company continues to grow exponentially and has a huge viral effect because of the amount of money being made by the hosts and the utility provided to guests
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Bernhard Haidinger · Top Commenter
How is Quora ever going to make money. with all due respect, I love Quora but how will they monetize it? TC seems to push certain companies over and over again. There are far more tech companies on the market with a proven biz model and they never appear on tc at all. just mo o course!
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· Yesterday at 11:11am

Agustin Gonzalez
Wow... this list. In the usual Goldman way, they wrap up crap, make it look pretty, and dump it onto the capital markets and investing public. Instagram, really?
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· 21 hours ago

William Doom
Really? Zillow come on fact check https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:Z.
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· Saturday at 9:00pm

Ari Lestariono · Jakarta, Indonesia
looks promising this new start up.wondering if I can get these capital venture.
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· Yesterday at 6:52am

William Wai Wong · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
Eventbrite. Chegg.
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· Saturday at 10:04pm

Kenny East · REALTOR® at MICHAEL JAMES Real Estate
That list is full of win. Also, be on the lookout for Trulia.
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· Yesterday at 10:56am
Derek Cyr · Canton, Connecticut
You beat me to the punch... Guess that means I'm stuck with Zillow, lol.
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· 22 hours ago

Jeremy Hinman · Top Commenter · Stanford
Hahaha.
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· Yesterday at 12:04am

Pantano Brown (signed in using Hotmail)
I can't find any ordinary stockholder that can honestly say that he/she have made money by owning the stocks of these small fries companies. I kept searching the net but I have not been able to find any. http://pnoy.me/8Z
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· Saturday at 9:25pm

Ryan Petersen · Scottsdale, Arizona
Right that's b/c they are not public.
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· Saturday at 9:39pm

Daniel Berger
wether they ipo or not that is one question, if this companies may really provide along term ROI for their investors, I believe some might. quora, dropbox and square the better picks.
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· Yesterday at 1:45am

Philip Bernstein · Port Washington, New York
You say you would have added Uber... but Uber is included in the list...
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· Saturday at 8:56pm

Kaushal Khunt · Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot
test
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· Yesterday at 4:38am

Arnoldas Paulikonis · ISM University of Management and Economics
Oink/Path...
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· Yesterday at 3:56am

Charles Naut · Stanford University
What is Beauchamp?
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· 21 hours ago

Muhammad Huzaifa · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Instagram?
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· Yesterday at 3:40am

Muhammad Huzaifa · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Branchout? Something is extremely wrong with this list.
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· Yesterday at 3:41am
Mark Chung · Seattle, Washington
That's what I thought but their traffic just spiked
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· Yesterday at 8:01am
Muhammad Huzaifa · Top Commenter · Chief executive officer at IKnowl
Mark Chung High traffic doesn't guarantee their revenue.