Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. Not unrelatedly, since the bottom has fallen out of the IPO market, the performance of the public market as a whole has been dreary to say the least.

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IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering Balance Sheet 78

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

While multiples are indeed often an input for valuing mature, slower growing companies, in the private, high growth tech market, entry multiples tend to be a byproduct of the valuation process: What investors are really trying to understand are possible exit values. A multiple is a company value divided by a metric.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

According to Phil Wainewright : Acquired as Expertcity in February 2004, the Citrix Online division is an on-demand giant in its own right, with trailing twelve month (TTM) revenues of $121.6 In my mind, there are two ways to look at SAAS offerings – vertical market applications or horizontal plays.

AJAX 60

AJAX Balance Sheet Vertical Demand 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Any industrial company that exports part of its production automatically qualifies for benefits under the law.

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Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Slack Fund (founded 2009) – with a market cap of $12 billion, Slack Fund is an $80 million fund, investing dollars for equity to startups developing on the Slack platform. Now the company wants to allocate some capital off balance sheet to invest into specific startup ideas the CEO, Henry Ward, sees as strategically important.

Balance Sheet 201

Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

Upon acquiring a business, companies have to value the different assets they acquired for their accounts and balance sheet in accordance with accounting and reporting standards. The beauty of M&A for examining valuation trends is that M&As reveal the dollar valuations of all assets at the time of the acquisition.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Merger Customer Product 60

www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

A lot of companies, when you look at their value on the public markets, versus what they were worth on the secondary market when they were private, these firms are underwater on their valuations," said Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley. When the market shuts a window, however, it opens a door. June 19, 2012.

IPO 48

IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48