[asterisk-biz] Skype Free International Calls

[Craig Lawrence]

Frank, I suspect you're correct:

1. Imagine you are the guy at eBay that told ebay management and
shareholders to buy Skype and the justification was the "potential". Now
that you have got your way and Skype is your baby what do you do now?

2. Answer is: Keep the dream of the future "potential" alive by
continuing to chase customer growth without keeping an eye on profits.
Because if you shift the focus to the bottom line the growth dies and
the valuation of the business looks very sick.

3. Whilst you focus on future potential your investors are not going to
be able to prove you wrong (well for a while anyway, this approach is
coming undone for Vonage at the moment).

4. Back during the discussion of Skype's valuation a business analyst
questioned Skype's potential for future SkypeOut revenues if there was
interoperability with other SIP networks AND ENUM +/or Dundee style
solutions were adopted uniformly.  The analyst was never given a
definitive answer as there just isn’t one. Only time will tell.....

Cheers


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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Frank
Sent: Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:32 PM
To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Skype Free International Calls

We talked about this last month..

Something about 15 million users * 20 times the 10$ they worth = 1
billion
on stock paper worth.. then blahblah..

Its all stock , and stock = scam in m h o.

At least at that scale.

So basically giving away service makes them worth more then not to.

10$ *15 mill = 150 mill$ * 20 time the value on paper . = lots of cash.

So your now worth that.. on the biz markets..

Who wants to by skype now !!..

P;)


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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Cory Andrews
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:14 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Skype Free International Calls

They are integrating Skype calling into Ebay listings.  I'd imagine some

type of fee structure for Ebay sellers to add a "Skype Me" button to
their 
auction listings, similar to how they market Gallery Images, Secondary 
Titles and other add-ons, would be quite lucrative as well.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Kennedy" <steve-asterisk at gbnet.net>
To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Skype Free International Calls


> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:31:35AM -0700, trixter aka Bret McDanel
wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 21:57 +1000, Craig Lawrence wrote:
>> > Can anyone make sense of Skype's business model? See this...
>> > http://www.amperordirect.com/pc/r-skype-news/z-news-062106a.html
>> > I assume I'm missing something.
>> Near as I can tell they are doing this as a loss leader to build a
brand
>> name and market acceptance.  IE build their user base so it can
become
>> profitable.
>
> In order for Skype to make money they need people to use their value
add
> services. While everyone just uses Skype for PC to PC calls, they're
just
> another IM client.
>
> If Skype can promote SkypeOut/SkypeIn, Voicemail etc and get people
> using them, then users are likely to continue to use those services
and
> pay for them.
>
> They have a huge installed base, but currently poor revenues (the
> current revenues and expected revenues were published as part of the
> Ebay purchase). If they can accelerate the up take of paid for
services
> then Ebay will be happy (and Skype shareholders who get a 2nd round of
> payments if Skype meet various targets).
>
> ISPs are used to buying customers, Skype are just buying long term
value
> add usage.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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