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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE JUNE 15, 2011 Pattern recognition But what’s going on right now with early stage company valuations suggests that VCs may be poor judges of at least some of these patterns. In 2002 a series of random shootings rocked the Washington DC area. Uncategorized bubble early stage comapny values valuationOr so the logic goes. | | | | | | |
| WILL PRICE JANUARY 23, 2008 Downturn - Now What? My first year in venture was 2002. Valuations seemed absurd in retrospect, companies with no sales were sitting on $50m-100m post-money valuations, $30m of paid-in-capital, and absolutely no chance of raising money; save a complete restart. The industry put $100bn to work in 2001 and only ~$20bn in 2002. | WILL PRICE JUNE 27, 2005 The Cost of Optimism The Standish Group, which analyzes IT projects, reported that in 2004 only 29% of IT projects succeeded, down from 34% in 2002. The theory is that if objective value milestones are met, the company and insiders will be able to raise a new round of funding at a stepped-up valuation. Think about the LBO business. | WILL PRICE JULY 11, 2005 PartyGaming Revenues grew from $30m in 2002 to $600m in 2004. Clearly, a regulatory overhang impacts the valuation, however, the fundamentals and prospects of the business are remarkable. On June 27th, a remarkable thing took place in London. PartyGaming.com, an on-line site best known for poker, raised $1.4bn dollars in an IPO. | | | | | | | | |
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FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011  Entrepreneurs that Got Filthy Rich in 2011
Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in December 2002, and became a billionaire in May 2011 when LinkedIn went public. percent of the company, the company’s valuation, at about $4 billion, pegs his net worth at over $100 million. Mark Zuckerberg isnt the only entrepreneur good at making bank. Internet company since Google raised $1.7 MORE >> -
YOUNGUPSTARTS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012  9 Business Acronyms You Need To Know
This valuation rubric ignores both cost of capital and degradation of long-term assets, prompting Warren Buffett to mock the metric at a Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in 2002, saying, “People who use EBITDA are either trying to con you or they’re conning themselves.” Business can be a dirty business. NOPAT. QA/QC. MORE >> -
 Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?
The whimsical site they released, where users posed as cats and bears and spacemen playing songs together in a chat room that resembled a rock club, attracted more than 360,000 users in three months, then $7 million in funding at a $37 million valuation. Last summer, Turntable.fm is Amazing." Then traffic started falling. They look tired. MORE >> - The Mother Of All Internet Wars
Microsoft was the clear winner with over 90% market share by 2002. And there is another little company out of Chicago called GroupOn with a $15 billion valuation that is in the scrap too. There have been quite a few wars in the history of the commercial Internet. The 1st Browser War Perhaps the most infamous war of all. Search. MORE >> -
SEED STAGE CAPITAL | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009  Positioning for a Startup Market Turnaround | VentureArchetypes.
August was among the slowest months weve had here at VentureArchetypes since 2002, when the funding market hit bottom in the last recession. Now there are signs that things may be (slowly) starting to turn around. Ive had a couple lunches with attorneys this week which were illuminating. as well as the network. Please share it! Many Thanks! MORE >>
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- Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G? AUSTIN STARTUP | FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010
- What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2010
- Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay WWW.INC.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
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- Startup Blog: Financial Storm Hunters: In search of remedies for. TAFFY WILLIAMS | FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011
- Who's Who of Angels RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011
- Q1 VC Numbers Are In.Here's the Good, the Bad, and mostly, The. SEED STAGE CAPITAL | TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
- Tonight We're Going To Party Like It's 1999 LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011
- Fenwick & West - Internet/Digital Media and Software Industries Silicon Valley and Seattle 2010 RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011
- Maric Capital - Delaware Court of Chancery Halts Merger on Duty of Disclosure Grounds RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010
- FTC Proposes Amendments To The HSR Act Form RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010
- Deal Activity and Valuations in Software and Biotech RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
- It Takes a Village | OC VC OC VC | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007
- The High Cost of Optimism WILL PRICE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2006
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