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Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by PaulRobinson »

AndriusWSR wrote: post #40
adamt wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The British list would appear to have some omissions. E.g. online real-estate site Rightmove (LON:RMV - has market cap $3.76Bn) is bigger than JustEat and Wonga.

Adam, thanks so much for the information. Indeed, our World Startup Report was not aware of this company. We will update our data (can't promise that the Economist will change their infographic though). Thanks again!

How can you allow your data to be cited when you have so little clue about the markets you're talking about?

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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grexi wrote: post #41

Where is Austria?

Grexi -

As mentioned in another thread, The World Startup Report team aimed for 100 countries for this research, but realistically we were able to only get good data for 50 countries for this research.

If your country is not on the list, and you would like to join us for the next World Startup Report research as a representative for your country, please email us: hello@worldstartupreport.com

We'd love for your help to participate in this community research!

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by AndriusWSR »

lukasm wrote: post #32

The graph is misleading. South Africa Naspers owns Allegro (1st Poland). Secondly, Allegro, which is polish Ebay, has almost whole market share in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc. and possibly that contributes to Naspers value. There is no nk.pl (polish facebook, 50% market share). It was sold for 200m a few years ago. Hard to compare valuation of private and public companies, especially in different places. Bet…

Lukas, World Startup Report team here. We worked together with the Economist putting this together.

We did look at private/public AND also acquired companies (in case of Allegro).

Would you have a source for the acquisition information? Keep in mind that we looked at 3 companies per country in which case it could have only been coincidence. Our goal was to show the relative extent of what is possible in different countries rather than to provide an exact estimate of each company.

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Post by jibbirish »

AndriusWSR wrote: post #37
LeonM wrote: post #14

I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…

Hi, WSR team here. Great comment! The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date ( http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways ) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company…

I would say thuisbezorgd.nl / takeaway.com is a good competitor? They just raised 74 mil.

http://startupjuncture.com/2014/04/10/contender-for-food-del...

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by viblo »

For sweden I wonder why not Betsson is included? Its market cap is almost double that of Klarna, the current 3rd company? PaddyPower (another online betting company) is included for Ireland.

It might be more missing, but this was easy to spot since Im both swedish and very familiar with Betsson.

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Post by skrebbel »

AndriusWSR wrote: post #37
LeonM wrote: post #14

I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…

Hi, WSR team here. Great comment! The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date ( http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways ) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company…

I would guess that maybe Layar or WeTranser have higher valuations. Blendle must be the fastest well-known grower, with a very exportable concept but I doubt they have a very high valuation right now.

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by AndriusWSR »

VMG wrote: post #34

General observation: Log scale! Observations regarding Germany: Rocket Internet (#1) specializes in copying foreign companies, like creating the "Zappos" clone "Zalando", which is #2.

Great point. We had our concerns about Rocket as well. In the end, we've put them as #1, with Zalando on the list as well. It seems that Rocket does not hold a stake in Zalando anymore (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/rocketinternet-sha...)

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by wsr »

Svip wrote: post #49
LeonM wrote: post #14

I am Dutch, so naturally I checked the top 3 for the Netherlands. Number 3 (Booking.com) and number 1 (Marktplaats.nl, the dutch craigslist), I can understand because they are indeed big and well-known sites. However, the number 2, apparently, is a website called "Shapeways", which is supposedly worth $175M. I have never heard of it and I asked some of my colleagues and they never heard of it either. After visiting s…

Same for Just Eat in Britain (second). While it is indeed headquartered in London, it was actually founded in Denmark. But then again, it lists Yahoo! Japan as Japan's first. And I feel that while Yahoo! Japan probably was founded in Japan, Yahoo! sure wasn't.

Svip -

The country location for a company in this research was determined by where the bulk of the employees are currently. The intent of this definition is to show which countries are most capable of building big internet companies, not where the founders are coming from.

Yahoo!Japan is actually an independent company from Yahoo. It is roughly 30% owned by Softbank and 30% owned by Yahoo. It is listed as it is the top 3 internet company in Japan.

Yahoo is not listed, because it is not the top 3 company in the US.

Re: Three biggest Internet companies in each country

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Post by AndriusWSR »

Len0 wrote: post #4

Wow, there is entry for Kosovo but not for Bosnia, Croatia or Serbia. They could've summed this whole region under Balkans.

Initially, we were aiming at covering 100 countries. However, due to lack of data from some countries we cut it down to 50.

We are working with our global community of contributors and we are looking for people who are willing to help us. If interested, just send us an email: hello@worldstartupreport.com

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