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Yet Another Facebook Price: Employee Shares Sold At Valuation "North Of $6 Billion"

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2008-07-22 16:35:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...valuation " north of $6 billion The deal, we're told, was agreed to in April and closed in May: Two different hedge funds bought about 0.10% of common stock -- about 10 basis points, total -- which came from more than one Facebook employee. Total purchase price for the transactions: "Mid- to upper-seven figures" -- i.e, $6 million-plus. If...
 
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ConnectU: Facebook's $15 Billion Valuation A Crock, Our Shares Only Worth 25% of That

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2008-07-03 18:00:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...valuation that Facebook internally assigned to the shares it paid ConnectU -- the company that claims Mark Zuckerberg stole Facebook from them -- in their February settlement The claim was made in a document (PDF) filed in during a hearing in the Facebook-ConnectU case, over whether Mark Zuckerberg stole code from ConnectU's founders, settled...
 
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Cuil a failure; still dreams high with a $200 million valuation

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2008-09-13 09:37:32 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...valuation makes it impossible for investors that include, Madrone Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. I remember reading about Powerset being valuated at $40.5 and it sold to Microsoft for a little over twice the valuation (at $100 million). And we mustnt forget it had a lot more to offer than the failure Cuil is. I dont...
 
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Resurrected Google: How's That Valuation? (35X FCF)

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2008-04-18 13:05:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...valuation again We value Google (GOOG) using free cash flow (see below). The bad news in the quarter was that Google's capital expenditures soared to $842 million, which depressed free cash flow (only $937 million in quarter, down from more than $1 billion the past two quarters). But we're optimistically going to assume that this massive...
 
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Why Does Ning Need More Money, at $500M Valuation?

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2008-04-19 00:22:00 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
...valuation of Ning at $500 million, according to Venturebeat , with a post-money valuation of $560 million So whats with the big numbers for Ning? Thanks to the tanking US economy, many speculated that large valuations for companies are long gone. Well, the opposite is true for Ning. Though Ning co-founder Marc Andressen has been quoted as...
 
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Huffington Post Raising $10mm-ish, $80mm-ish Valuation

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2008-06-03 13:48:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...valuation, sources tell us. This follows a $5 million raise last year at about a $35 million valuation Huffington Post's traffic has soared over the past year , and it recently clocked 100+ million pageviews in a month Some industry observers predict that Huffington's traffic will get slammed when the election ends--the traffic of one...
 
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LinkedIn Closes Its Round; Got That Billion Dollar Valuation

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2008-06-18 00:38:42 by Mark Hendrickson in TechCrunch
...valuation. It turns out the company was not actually working with any bank to get this deal, but it still got a 10-figure valuation anyway As part of the deal, Jeff Glass of Bain Capital Ventures - the newcomer to LinkedIns investor list - will join the board The additional $53 million is on top of $27 million raised over three previous...
 
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LinkedIn Gets Its $1 Billion Valuation - And $53 Million In Cash

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2008-06-18 10:28:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...valuation, via a fourth round of investment led by Bain Capital. Bain, a new investor for the social network for grownups, lead a $53 million round ; previous investors Sequoia, Greylock and Bessemer also kicked in. Last fall, when News Corp./LinkedIn rumors were floating around, CEO Dan Nye said the company would need "a lot more than" a...
 
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Want Some Facebook Stock At A $3 Billion Valuation? We Know Who To Call.

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2008-06-28 19:25:04 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch