WorthPoint Corporation has reached an important milestone this week when its relatively new web site surpassed its one millionth page view.
WorthPoint Founder and CEO Will Seippel, a passionate collector and a tech company turnaround specialist, founded WorthPoint to make it much easier for people around the world to learn about the history and value of the things they own or want to own. The site boasts almost two million data points of historical and current prices, photographs and descriptions from more than 250 auction houses.
While the site is a growing information source for collectors, it is more than that as a business, Seippel said. “What’s underneath is more complex. We are a data company crossing collectors from around the world into one large financial market. Our social web 2.0 portal is only the first way to monetize and share the data. WorthPoint is creating a language for the $150 billion collectibles industry, setting up taxonomies and cataloging data.â€
Originally posted on January 22, 2008 @ 12:02 pm