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Two months after Yu left the company, Facebook announced a deal with Russian venture capital firm Digital Sky Trust that kept Facebook's valuation high at $10 billion.
The investment is aimed at infusing Facebook with new monetization schemes but it also keeps the social network's valuation high at $10 billion.
In 2017, Series A companies will struggle to get their pre-money valuation high enough for the B round.
There are ways to structure a deal to give a better real valuation to investors while keeping the official valuation high.
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Either of these possibilities may justify a valuation higher than Mr. Blodget's.
Disney nevertheless still regularly trades at a stock market valuation higher than those of its competitors.
OPTIMIZE, OPTIMIZE, OPTIMIZE One reason to use valuation as a planning tool is that it can help you isolate variables that can drive your valuation higher.
(An equity round could have likely shifted the valuation higher).
Despite having a valuation higher than Groupon's, CYNK is an unknown.
Not only are valuations high, but earnings growth is low and expectations are falling.
In particular, American pension funds should be aware that, with bond yields low and equity valuations high, future investment returns are likely to be low.
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