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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I can’t control the market. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. The best thing to get is a “right sized&# valuation. A: It’s not best.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Founders – Use Your Down Round To Clean Up Your Cap Table

Feld Thoughts

Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of a significant public market correction, especially around technology stocks, there’s an enormous amount of noise in the system, as there always is. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. But, as you raise more money at higher valuations, this will normalize.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. What about the efficient market hypothesis? Aren’t markets rational? If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set).

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. What about the efficient market hypothesis? Aren’t markets rational? If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set).

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In Venture Capital, Should You Be a Momentum or a Value Investor?

David Teten

To simplify, there are two classic approaches to public markets investing. The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past. than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation.