At the beginning of this year I got to know you tube and google video because a friend of mine showed me a few videos. Then, a few weeks ago watching CNN, I watched a report on youtube.com where they mentioned that youtube had grown so much and had become a very popular company.
In that news I could see the creators of youtube talk about the history and how had it all started, but now google has acquired them form 1.65 Billion US dollars! WOW!!! It seems that it is profitable to start little websites that can become popular expecting to sell them for a high price later. Form more information on youtube purchase by google you can read this article from TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube/
I have noticed that huge companies that exist now a days, started a few years behind with a little site or portal as google. When I first met google it was just a search engine.. Now I am using google web accelerator, google search bar, google adsense, google analytics, google pack, and I guess there's more to come from google.
Another case is youtube, who could say that a site that allows you to upload your videos for free to the web could make its price grow as high as 1.65 Billions?. There are some other sites coming up on the list, Hi5.com, seems to be very popular, the question now is: who will purchase hi5? Msn? Yahoo? Google? Going back in history, the first story similar to this one I heard about was hotmail, which was sold to microsoft for a huge amount.
I will try to sit for a while and try to come up with and and Idea that later I can sell for some amount (2.0 billions at least) . At least this seems to be the tendency now a days. Make your site popular and sell it to some huge company.
