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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I can’t say his name yet because he hasn’t announced funding. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies.

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On the Road to Recap:

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A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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