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A 5-Step Plan To Assessing Your Business’s Sellability

YoungUpstarts

How do you find the balance between not too small to prove itself but not too big to have an off-putting valuation? Minimizing losses in the year before you begin shopping around for buyers will increase profit and help you get that higher valuation. Track Media Perception & Presence. This plan will help you with that.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. question in venture capital. It is intentional.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. ad-tech, analytics, development platforms, etc) the list is slightly different.

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9 Tech Companies Likely to Be Acquired Next

ReadWriteStart

Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce were all reportedly interested in acquiring the office communication platform.

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