New World Newsfeed: Silicon Alley Insider Ranks Linden Lab Among Top 25 Most Valuable Startup, With $800M Valuation

Silicon Alley Insider: The SAI 50+: World's Most Valuable Internet Startups

In a new list of top 50 Internet startups, the Silicon Alley Insider puts Linden Lab at 21, with an estimated valuation of $800 million based on annual revenue of $100 million. (That's significantly more bullish than a July analysis, which pegged Linden's value at $658-700 million.) By SAI's reckoning, that puts Linden above prominent startups like Hulu and Yelp, and notably, a couple dozen ranks above Gawker Media (49 of 50, valued at $190 million), the former publisher of avid (if not very accurate) Second Life detractor Valleywag -- which was, in a supreme irony, discontinued earlier this year. Hat tip: Catherine Linden.