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As long as they're profitable and have valuations that make sense.
Discounted valuations that made the stock so attractive in January turned into premiums.
Salesforce.com is clearly a darling already, and many new companies will be spawned and floated, most at the sort of valuations that make Google seem overvalued.
But the man is willing to pour money into companies at valuations that make U.S. investors blanch.
"How can you explain in a rational way valuations that made absolutely no sense?" Lakonishok, 56, and Fama, 63, happen to be tennis fanatics, and even once settled matters on the court.
Founders and investors are more likely to disclose exit valuations that make them look good, so this may skew our findings higher.
Now, whether they go through clearinghouses, or there is a better way to create transparency, or there are better disclosure rules around them, you know, you can come up with various solutions but I think what this crisis has shown us is that transparency, you know, valuations that make sense, suitability like how do you make those mortgages, I think those are the issues we need to capture.
The hallmarks of poor seed financing strategies include founders who have already given up the majority of equity before the A round, inflated seed valuations that make it difficult to raise an A round at a reasonable valuation, or a large overhang of convertible debt resulting from numerous convertible note rounds.
But the company is doing good business with its suite of Web brands — Vulture, Grub Street, Daily Intel and others, and profits from those enterprises could yield the kind of valuation that makes the $55 million purchase price seem cheap.
