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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. What happened?

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Feld Thoughts

Unlike the endless stream of predictions that are about to come out, it’s an analysis of the spread between the public market and private company valuations. This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I agreed to finance a company today. It’s marketing.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Internet and Online Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Franchises.

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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?’ For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. On August 11, 2011 Dan Primack wrote on this topic in Term Sheet and concluded differently: “I believe that the current Internet bubble is economic.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. Today we’re online 3.1

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. An item’s price is the price.