Thursday, March 13, 2008

$21M for One Widget!!!


ShareThis


ShareThis is a widget that allows readers to share your content and has raised a total of $21M. $6M in Series A round in 2007 and $15M in a Series B round.


$21M is a lot of money for a simple widget, you can submit articles at only 14 websites, it has a tracking system and the only thing that makes it different from other widgets is that you can send the page link and a message via email, AIM, and SMS.


Widgets like AddtoAny and AddThis have more integrated website, AddtoAny has 79 integrated websites and AddThis has 35 websites and a tracking system, and there are more widgets like this that are created by users, anyone can build this kind of tools.


Conclusion:


To make money you need to build something very simple and to have around 10 million views a month.


Now I only need an idea.

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