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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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We drew this conclusion after a meeting we had with Morgan Stanley where they showed us historical 15 & 20 year valuation trends and we all discussed what we thought this meant. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? And reset they must.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As the risks below get eliminated the higher the valuation investors are prepared to pay. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.

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Vote For My SXSW Panel – An Inside Look at BigDoor’s Venture Funding

Feld Thoughts

An Inside Look at BigDoor’s Venture Funding is going to be me, Keith Smith ( BigDoor CEO), and Andy Sack ( Lighter Capital , Founder’s Co-op , and the TechStars Seattle Managing Director). Both are good friends of mine and have really interesting philosophies about startup funding.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. That’s why Revolution was so supportive of Revolution Money, which sought to break up the troika that controls consumer finance.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Or is it?