The post-money valuation is simply the pre-money plus the amount of the new investment.
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For IPOs, their pre-money valuation is used as a proxy for exit value.
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The entire venture capital industry generally uses a quick and dirty form of valuation called pre- and post-money valuation.
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The pre-money valuation is simply the value agreed upon before money is invested.
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If you raised money in an equity round at a high valuation, you may find that if you need money you can only get it at a lower one.
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The investor wanted to put in more money, but at a depressed valuation--and demanded that he get two board seats and that the chief executive be replaced.
If the valuation judgments are right, you should make money whether the market goes up, down or sideways.
To establish a policy's market value we first calculate its asset share, which tracks money into and out of the policy to the date of valuation.
The meager valuation reflected widespread doubts about a quirky company trying to make money renting DVDs with a monthly subscription service that delivered the discs through the mail.
When Forbes Global spoke in late 1999 with Thomas White, a money manager in Chicago, the Nasdaq stood at 4000 and many analysts were busy inventing new valuation ratios to justify sky-high share prices (" One ratio does not fit all" Dec. 27, 1999).
"The capital overhang has fluctuated a bit, but for the most part there is still a huge amount of money out there, " says Bo Brustkern, a former venture capitalist who now runs Denver-based valuation firm Arcstone Partners.
And since price rationing allows individualism through personal valuation the social engineers have even engrossed themselves into the manipulation of the medium of exchange, or the money that we use to place value on the goods, services, resources, investments, interest, and wages that are critical to an economy.
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