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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. All three are impressive and valuable businesses in their own right. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

For businesses that are unprofitable, breakeven, or modestly profitable, the interim cash flows in the forecast period tend to be inconsequential to company value, which is ultimately largely determined by this terminal value. Imagine there is a hot, bottoms-up $60M revenue B2B software company raising at a $4B valuation.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.