Posted by Heidi N. Moore
A profitable Internet start-up company is almost as rare in 2008 as it was in 1999.

It should be no surprise, then, that investors and bankers greeted closely held Internet start-up HomeAway.com with a measure of enthusiasm. The Austin, Texas, company, said to be profitable by its CEO and investors, considered nearly 10 venture capitalists as it sought to raise $250 million.

“It’s pretty tough to obtain capital right now, but it’s the opposite if you have a company that has strong earnings. I’ve never seen so much competition for financing,” said CEO Brian Sharples said.

HomeAway needed only three firms to meet its goal of $250 million, $175 million from Technology Crossover Ventures and $75 million from two existing investors–Institutional Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures.

HomeAway.com is kind of an eBay for vacation-home rentals, and it has done booming business amid the downturn as many owners of second homes look to rent out their country houses to get additional cash. The company sought additional cash to make acquisitions as the market values of competitors fell.

The company was no stranger to big capital-raises or acquisitions, pulling in $160 million in November 2006 and completing 10 acquisitions in the past three years. The company used some of that cash to expand globally– 30% of its revenue now comes from overseas, according to Technology Crossover Ventures partner Woody Marshall.

To keep that expansion going, HomeAway flirted with a public listing: in October 2007, the company and its bankers, Goldman Sachs Group and Credit Suisse Group, “did 95% of the work toward putting an IPO together,” but pulled back before officially filing it with the Securities and Exchange Commission Read the rest of this story….

Mouse ears for Jerry Yang? I don’t think so.

Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain is predicting that Disney (NYSE: DIS) will make a play for unlucky in love Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO).

“I actually think the most logical buyer is Disney,” McIlwain said last night. “And the rationale is that Yahoo for the last six to eight years has focused hard on being a content company and a manager and leverager of content assets.”

To be fair, McIlwain initially joked that no one should buy Yahoo!. He also made his comments during the Washington Technology Industry Association’s annual predictions dinner, where you seem to score as many points for being quotably outlandish as you do for being correct.

However, since this is the kind of chatter that is quickly spun into bogus buyout buzz, let’s shoot this one down before it leaves Fantasyland.

There are several reasons why this is highly unlikely to happen. Read The Rest of this story….

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