Guess the Price: Zenter
June 23rd, 2007 | Categories: guess the priceToday, I am inaugurating a new series of posts entitled “Guess the Price”. These short posts will appear when a start-up is bought for an undisclosed price. At this point, readers simply ‘guess the price’ they think the start-up was purchased for. Justification is not required, but is encouraged. Having said that, let the games begin…
“Guess the price” Google paid for:
Zenter
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Purchasher: Google
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Start-up: Zenter
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Background info: Google acquires Zenter
Note: I do NOT know the acquisition price, so your guess is as good as mine. But I’d wager yours is better 
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
My guess is $3mil to $8mil.
I’ve heard that Google pays $5mil to $20mil for companies when they are buying them very early and mainly for the employees.
I bet they wouldn’t want to go above $10mil for the stage it was in. The founders probably didn’t push as hard as they could have and wouldn’t have received the upper end.
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
My guess is $2-3 million…
My justification:
-Company was only started 6 months ago
-Only 2 founders/employees
-Product hadn’t even launched publicly
Just my two bits…
Cheers,
Aidan
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Aidan … 1-2 for the same reason!