Comments on: Rosy conditions for raising VC http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Don Jones http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/comment-page-1/#comment-527900 Don Jones Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:55:10 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/#comment-527900 One small piece of advice to readers and writers of valuation numbers, whether pre- or post-money: even the large, professional databases are not trusted by much of the venture capital community. Why? First, many of the top tier venture capital firms don't provide those confidential numbers at all, due to clauses in the stock purchase agreements, and second, the venture capital firms that do provide them frequently use differing definitions for those numbers. Even though the big databases do their best to understand the numbers, financing valuations are some of the most questionable numbers in those databases. One small piece of advice to readers and writers of valuation numbers, whether pre- or post-money: even the large, professional databases are not trusted by much of the venture capital community. Why? First, many of the top tier venture capital firms don’t provide those confidential numbers at all, due to clauses in the stock purchase agreements, and second, the venture capital firms that do provide them frequently use differing definitions for those numbers. Even though the big databases do their best to understand the numbers, financing valuations are some of the most questionable numbers in those databases.

]]> By: VentureBeat » Facebook raising another round of financing? http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/comment-page-1/#comment-526514 VentureBeat » Facebook raising another round of financing? Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:09:10 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/#comment-526514 [...] why not raise even more money while money is loose and there’s so much hype around Facebook that investors will pay top dollar for a piece of [...] [...] why not raise even more money while money is loose and there’s so much hype around Facebook that investors will pay top dollar for a piece of [...]

]]> By: Matt Marshall http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/comment-page-1/#comment-525856 Matt Marshall Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:48:59 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/#comment-525856 Sorry about that. Survey link corrected. They've been secretive about their source. Sorry about that. Survey link corrected. They’ve been secretive about their source.

]]> By: Don Jones http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/comment-page-1/#comment-525772 Don Jones Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:15:03 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/rosy-conditions-for-raising-vc/#comment-525772 Where did they get their "valuation" numbers? Your "survey" link is broken. Where did they get their “valuation” numbers?

Your “survey” link is broken.

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