Sentence examples for seriously valuation from inspiring English sources

With a big funding round ready to close and "now we have to take this seriously" valuation, Airbnb is following Groupon's lead and investing for growth oversees.

May 27, 2014 Updated at 10.28am BST 10.06am BST Christine Lagarde is now tweeting the main message from her speech: Christine Lagarde (@Lagarde) We need investors and financial leaders taking values as seriously as valuation, culture as seriously as capital.

For a quite a while now, analysts who take seriously such valuation ratios as the price-to-earnings ratio and Tobin's "q" ratio (which measures the price of investment assets relative to their replacement cost) have been warning about a crack in the market.

If you invest in Facebook at a seriously stretched valuation, you are going to be passing up on some far more attractive alternatives.

After all, a failing management team or even one with a high potential to leave the company could seriously jeopardize valuation when it comes time to sell the business.

Ms Lagarde said the changes required both investors and the leaders of financial firms to "take values as seriously as valuations" and "culture as seriously as capital".

A fund manager at one of AstraZeneca's top 10 investors said: "I would have thought the board would be under increased pressure to think seriously about the correct valuation of this business.

While I do believe Groupon will be a profitable company with a big market cap, its valuation is seriously inflated.

The valuations are once again seriously out of whack with earnings, and business models presume too clear a road ahead of them.

Network effects in the social age can help companies scale users dramatically, seriously reducing capital requirements (YouTube and Instagram) and/or increasing valuations quickly (Facebook).

So Facebook was going to have to offer a huge premium over the last valuation for Systrom and the board to take any deal seriously.