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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. But second, how do you back this up?

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. If you’re a late stage company trying to penetrate a new market (think Warby Parker trying to expand internationally), we have people who can help with that.

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

Both Sides of the Table

That was written in September 2008. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network.