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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market.

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

David Teten

than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation. In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. It doesn’t really matter what valuation you pay for the big winners, because the returns are so high in the megacorns.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years!

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Each new investor tends to raise valuations and lower returns for all the other competitive investors. This is the psychology that drives VCs to load up a company with more capital, rationalizing that $5m at a $20m pre-money valuation is little different than $10m at a $40m pre-money valuation.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.