Math Startup Valuation 
Abnormal Returns
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Fund management There is no escaping the math on leveraged ETFs. techcrunch.com) Musk SpaceX could soon be the world's most valuable startup with a $350 billion valuation. techcrunch.com) Musk SpaceX could soon be the world's most valuable startup with a $350 billion valuation.
The Big Picture
APRIL 17, 2025
An instructive war story : During the mid-1990s, a grad school buddy took a senior job at a tech startup that came with lots of stock. My advice was not based on fear of a bubble or the (over)valuation of Yahoo; rather, I suggested employing a regret minimization framework.2 In late 1996, they were bought by Yahoo!
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The Irrelevant Investor
NOVEMBER 20, 2021
When The Wall Street Journal first published "The Billion Dollar Startup Club" in February 2015, 84 companies had the rare unicorn status. A private company with a billion-dollar valuation used to be special. Today there are 1,000 of 'em. Now it's ordinary. These numbers, which felt crazy at the time, seem quaint compared to today.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. But one of the things I learned in that first startup, I had two guys on the two investors who were not traditional venture capitalists. What can I say? Once again? I have an extra special guest.
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?
The Big Picture
JANUARY 21, 2025
But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And then I was approached by Citigroup about being director of financial education for this startup called MiFi. You know, what would happen next?
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.
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