Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Uber has lost $38 billion since 2013 and yet still has a market valuation of around $60 billion. – Tesla $ valuation per car sold = $302k. – GM $ valuation per car = $5k. – Ford $ valuation per car sold = $17k. – Toyota $ valuation per car sold = $15k. It just doesn’t add up.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. A booming economy and continuous growth in the tech sector have paved the way for Southeast Asian startups to become unicorns and Decacorns, a company with a valuation of over $10 billion.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned. Read A16Z’s social strikes back series to get a feel of just how much movement is in this space.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s almost exactly 5 years since Aileen Lee first coined the term “unicorn” in reference to startups with $1 billion+ valuations. A few of these had previously raised private rounds at $1B+ valuations like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but a good majority of them only reached unicorn status upon exit. valuation in 2017 round).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I know – I was there when the first people debating funding it at less than a $5m valuation. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And it’s not just that VCs cut their investment pace but they also indicated overwhelmingly that valuations of investments had dropped with 76% of all VCs surveyed suggesting 2016 had lower valuations than 2015. So if funding from VCs slowed, valuations dropped and burn rates were slashed, WTF happened to winter again?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system. Median pre-money valuations skyrocketed – shooting up 3x in just three years as investors competed to christen imaginary animals with imaginary valuations. So what happened?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

This brings the company’s valuation to over $1 billion. Only China has a larger fishing and aquaculture industry than Indonesia does; Indonesia’s industry is currently ranked in second place. The remarkable annual output of 5.8

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

“Maybe,&# says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. We debated everything including, “is Apple like China?&# “Is Facebook the new AOL?&# “Has Twitter become useful to our moms & sisters?&# “Was AOL smart to have purchased HuffPo?&#.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Low supply of companies with traction drove the valuations and deal sizes up. Valuations are rising to match. A typical seed round valuation may be $6M pre, raising $2M for an $8M post, or even as high as an $8M pre, raising $2M for a $10M post. The risk here is what I refer to as the curse of over-capitalization. The Epilogue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

The valley only has about 4x more VC deals than London (although average valuations are admittedly 2x higher): The valley is not 1000x better. 10% goes to profitable companies ready to grow (this data is for the US & UK; the same chart for China & India is skewed way to the right). But check it. Everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. You might also favor a quicker close at a slightly lower valuation than you had hoped in order to decrease risk. You might also favor a quicker close at a slightly lower valuation than you had hoped in order to decrease risk.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

our product is manufactured in Shenzhen, China … along with most of the high-tech electronics in the world, so we had to locate a factory, we had to find the right partner to build this product and work with us …. Keen Home appeared on the TV show, Shark Tank , in 2012, landing one of the highest valuations in the show’s history.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Therefore, the big players in the market are being more inquisitive than normal and are now actually taking serious looks outside of China as well.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Valuations were stretched, both on a fundamentals basis and compared with the public markets, and there were even whispers of a ‘new paradigm’ for valuing companies now that businesses can expand around the world so fast. That process started quietly after the summer last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Include a current valuation estimate. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Ultimately, I predict these and other companies will go out soon, but for many of them, they may also go slightly underwater relative to their most recent private round valuations. especially the Bay Area) and China. Will Pinterest’s ad engine be compared to Facebook and Google, or to Snap? Not anytime soon, I think.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Others are cutting their valuations. China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. Going forward, do you move your supply chain from China or at least create a second source from other countries? If you were expecting angel or venture funding get on the phone to your investor(s). are about to face a moral dilemma.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). We’ll see. What do I know about venture?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Include a current valuation estimate. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

But mainly we did it because these corporate VCs were among the only groups willing to invest at PayPal’s somewhat inflated post-money valuation, during the middle of the dot-com crash when traditional VCs pulled back sharply and other sources of funding were constrained.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Valuations. There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. Many of the private companies like AirBnb, Dropbox, and Square and that have been rumored to have big valuations are real, growing businesses. Are their valuations justified?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2016

The public markets have been stumbling around lately, trying to figure out what China and oil prices mean for the rest of the world economy. Now that they have to go back into the market next year to pitch their own fund, they're going to have to answer some tough questions about valuations. Fear, not surprisingly, weighs markets down.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Registering a trade mark also ensures freedom-to-use and is the best way to prevent trade mark hijacking in civil law countries such as China. Many businesses rely on patents for the defensive aspect of establishing and protecting a core technological competency, and as a valuable asset for valuation purposes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Estimated mobile display spend in the U.S. was around $500 million last year.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). As valuations increase, VC returns go down.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Everyone wants to sell to 1% of China… It’s hard to exactly know your niche in the beginning, so Pivot if you have to. For consumer web startups, the more traction you show, the better valuation you will get. You start with 0 users – how do you get to 100, 1000 and one million? How long will it take?

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

You won’t impress investors by claiming that everyone in China needs one, and nobody else has exactly the right features to compete with you. Include a current valuation estimate. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. For example: Hangzhou Intime Department Store (China): They partnered with Taobao to sell items online through social media, contactless shopping was encouraged. Thanks to Deepu Prakash, Fingent ! #16- 16- Coffee. 19- Silvertech.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40