Allen Stern

better get that cash soon before we are all paying $10 for a gallon of gas :) - sean percival

Whatever happened to "we have enough VC to bankroll us for YEARS?" - Cyndy

What am I missing here? The base is there, there's more content that even Calacanis had hoped for (he's written this), surely the scaling now is only servers etc. Guides aren't expensive, and it's opened up Wikipedia style anyway for even more content. - Duncan Riley

Duncan: Calacanis doesn't have a yacht like Ellison yet, that's what. - Jason Wehmhoener

He's making the Slide/Ning-style pitch for funding before it dries up. Luck to him. - Sprague D

Duncan: It's an entire economy run out of the hamster wheels in Mike Arrington's house. You were expecting logic? - jeneane 'This One' sessum

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded... -- here's the video - the $50 million comment comes around the 16 minute mark - the video is worth watching - facebook, wikia search also present. (i think the last few minutes got cut off - the video froze) - Allen Stern

At what point do VC's actually ask for a revenue model and business plan? - Jason Carreira via twhirl

over five to seven years that's what it will take probably. of course, the large part of that will come from revenue. remember, we were spending millions of dollars a year building Weblogs, Inc. In fact, over five years at least 15m would have been invested in WIN. - Jason Calacanis

Wow well best of luck my man! - Jason Stephens

Jason Carreira, in JCal's defense, Mahalo has always been Weblogs Inc built on Mediawiki. It's a content play with ads, proven model...well as long as the Google traffic comes in for him. - Duncan Riley

jeneane, I better not go there...already in trouble today :-) Still, no logic at all. Cost of creating content is relatively cheap...unless he's got something else in mind - Duncan Riley

at least Duncan when I get in trouble I have a little fun:) - Fred Grott

If it's a proven revenue model, why do they need another $50 million? Shouldn't they be generating revenue by now? - Jason Carreira via twhirl

I really like the concept of Mahalo. My question is how what search market are you really targeting? If we talking about generic search(google) its keyword and they index bunch of garbage and present it to you. Then there is Nat lang search, where you are obviously search for meaning for stuff and they try o present you meaning full data. Where does Mahalo fit into this arena? - Akshay Dodeja

Carreira: They may be generating *some* revenue, sure. Enough to sustain them? - Brent Newhall

No offense to anyone, but I find it amusing the number of armchair quarterbacks on here. How much do any of us know how much money Mahalo spends each month? Or how much revenue they're getting in? Or how much all that will increase in the next 5 years? - Brent Newhall

With Duncan here. Mahalo has 'legs'. Calacanis is an incredible salesperson (whether you love his 'stuff' or not). No doubt a long term player that needs time. - Charlie Anzman

Any page created on Mahalo is beyond it's sell-by-date a week later - paul mooney

How many people here use it? Just curious. - Cyndy

Good question Cyndy! I don"t.. - Tom Masiero

I don't either, Cyndy. - Yuvi

Brent, I know they're asking for another $50 million... For a business plan I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face pitching... How much more do you need to know? - Jason Carreira

Good question Cyndy. It's interesting that I know a few guides that create content for Mahalo but I don't remember any single person actually claiming to use it. Paradox... - Svetlana Gladkova

svetlana - it's the guides and the greenhouse that drive a lot of the traffic - Allen Stern

Yes, but I think it's no good for a product if it's only used by the people working on it - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Swetlana do you have a hit count monthly to back up that implied claim or are you just talking out ones butt? - Fred Grott