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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. According to research from JP Morgan, revenues from investment banking peaked in 2009 at $207.7 Revisiting our components let’s see why.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 Their growth to over $509mm of revenue from $281mm 2 years ago is a case in point.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

the original products can’t generate revenue, so when these OS projects occassionally blow up into phenomenons like Drupal and WordPress have over the past few years, it’s gratifying but also quite frustrating to watch others derive so much value from your baby while you toil away to lead its growth with no financial return.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth.

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What Startups Need To Know About Business Valuation

YoungUpstarts

This compensation can come in the form of a stock option , a stock appreciation right, or a similar financial instrument, which can potentially be quite lucrative for employees at the time of a merger, acquisition or initial public offering (IPO). A company can have value, even if there is no current income or revenue.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story.

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Machine Learning for Regular Recruiters

Transformify

A big organization will survive and compensate the lost productivity, low quality and lost customers resulting from ‘’bad hires’’ The negative impact on revenue and EBITDA will be there but it will not matter as much as for a startup or a small organization. 14% have an IPO experience.