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Investing in Downturns

VC Adventure

Everyone is being cautious about valuations. Anecdotally I’ve heard that early stage valuations are already down 30-50%. First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Obviously, better to invest after.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Get instrument rated, and trust the 6Cs of Cloud Finance (more.) 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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ProfessorVC: A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal

Professor VC

They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. I asked him how the deal came out for investors since the sale price was significantly lower than the valuation on the round they were raising when we met. ► 2008. (14).

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Meanwhile, their seed investors aren’t particularly incentivized to get them a Series A that crams the previous valuation down. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Source GigaOM ]. -