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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

crowdSPRING Blog

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. Moreover, current per user revenues outside of the U.S./Canada

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Startup = Growth

paulgraham.com

The best thing to measure the growth rate of is revenue. Thats a reasonable proxy for revenue growth because whenever the startup does start trying to make money, their revenues will probably be a constant multiple of active users. [ A profitable startup could if it wanted just grow on its own revenues.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of the 43 U.S.-based