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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas.
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 10, 2021
In particular, over the past year, the fintech has seen “massive momentum” in the country, with more than 18 million American consumers now using Klarna, he said. They can also do things like initiate refunds, track deliveries and get price-drop notifications. True competition is coming to this space, this decade,” he said.
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APRIL 14, 2012
What I want to talk about today is one of the insider baseball discussions of our industry this past week: The odd fact of the $500 million financing round completed just before the company sold for a B. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. to justify a “strategic” price.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? How profitable is my product or service? were more distributed.
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MAY 13, 2013
For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. has now employed the same strategy.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2015
Include your sustainable competitive advantage. Patents or other intellectual property are a real competitive advantage for a startup, but first to market and working harder are not sustainable. If you sell for half the price of a competitor, but you lose money on each item, it’s hard to make it up in volume.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. Nice sweep!
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