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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad?

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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” It’s long but worth reading every word slowly.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

This means that creating a simplified and easy-to-navigate software that allows real-time metrics and communication to be had in a professional management environment is currently an industry for the taking. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. 19- Silvertech.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Yahoo Finance. per share to $8.0 But does it mean these companies are not profitable? S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

This past Friday Square also filed an initial pricing range of $11-13/sh which would give them an enterprise value less than their last round of financing ($6B post-money). I’ll address potential valuation further down the post here. When it comes to valuation, Square will inevitably compared with other payments companies.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

With the oil barrel price moving from $20 in 2002 to $124 today, and cities like San Francisco in active discussion to build a 5-megawatt installation within the city limits , this prediction seems on its way - and was widely approved by the audience. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.