These are legitimate business with lofty valuations.
"We still have to ask ourselves legitimate questions about what kind of valuations are justified," he said.
O'Connor v Uber Technologies, Inc was supposed to settle one of the most controversial questions of the current tech boom: are gig-economy companies like Uber and Lyft legitimate enterprises worth their multi-billion dollar valuations?
The summed discrepancy across all trade partners is an imperfect measure of smuggling activity in that it also captures several legitimate causes for discrepancies including lags between exports and imports, valuation differences due to the inclusion or exclusion of freight and insurance costs, changes in exchange rates, and misreporting of origin where transshipment takes place [ 13, 14].
This shows accounting issues contributing to technical field legitimacy and emergence, such as the role of knowledge production, valuation practices and receptive environments, and the distinction between legitimate investments that can be valued and investment venture profitability.
There are definitely legitimate concerns about Groupon's value for small businesses and merchants, but lofty valuations aside, we have to remember that Groupon is still a young company, and the future remains unwritten.
The goal of this complex process of valuation is about how to convince the owner and to make the deal legitimate".
Owners were concerned about whether their assets (including their mining rights, which are a type of property right) would receive a fair valuation and whether they would be fairly compensated for their investment if their legitimate coal mine businesses were to be closed, merged, or reorganized according to the campaign agenda.
Not a single issuer in J.P. Morgan's EMBI+ index of emerging-market bonds saw spreads widen (chart 2).What began as a legitimate search for higher returns following a collapse in prices in many markets led to valuations that stretched the bounds of credulity and made little or no allowance for error.
The mania for billion-dollar valuations is the result of the business model of the venture capital market — not some legitimate definition of startup success.
