Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Sure, your revenues and profits will factor into your valuation, but what about things like: The quality of your team: do you have well trained employees that expertly perform? Do your systems provide cost or time advantages versus competition? Like self-made billionaire Meg Whitman, who ran eBay from 1998 to 2007.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. I immediately agreed to come aboard at no cost to clean up the corporation, deferring my investment until that was done. Within three months, we easily obtained $3 million of investment at a pre-money valuation of $30 million. million at a valuation of $80 million. Of course we took all of these.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 million to $22.5

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And no, that doesn’t mean that the IPO is underpriced; recall that there is no cost to putting in an “order” in the IPO book, so the incentive for the buy-side is to put in as large a request as possible with the understanding that they will ultimately be cut back by the underwriters. Are bankers simply irrational?

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. However, it was the right thing to do from a valuation perspective. So, asset allocator can always work to add value and decrease costs (or add costs and over-complicate). These obviously important needs are like the emperor’s new clothes. And it helped our returns.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Each new investor tends to raise valuations and lower returns for all the other competitive investors. It is mathematically impossible for the median investor to beat a low-cost index, after expenses. (Of This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. because all your costs are up front, and your revenue is over a five year period, the more you sell, the more you lose. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors. 1990-1998 13.3%

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services. Reason Two: Ridiculously High Cost of Living in the Bay Area.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe the massive valuation increases in cryptocurrencies we’ve witnessed of late are not based on any fundamentals other than speculation and a drive for a quick profit by many who have gained from the market hype. This does not mean that all existing intermediaries go away. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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