Speaking of Norway...

[Gregory Alan Bolcer]

You can eat up $3M in operations and badwitdth costs
easily with 8M unique visitors. 

Greg


Owen Byrne wrote:
> 
> Saw this on useit.com recently. Perhaps Bill Gates can get a second mortgage
> on his home and acquire this as a nice little retirement business:
> 
> "Tidbit from Europe: The portal Scandinavia OnLine (sol.dk|no|se) is being
> sold for $49M. The portal holds $37M in cash and the buyer will take over
> tax deductions worth $15M. Thus, the portal business itself, with 8 million
> "unique visitors", has negative value (-$3M). I have never thought that
> generic portals were the best use of the Web (specialized, targeted sites
> are better), but the negative valuation is interesting."
> 
> Owen
> 
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