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Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by nikanj on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:26PM (#21706527)
As parodied some 5 years ago: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/press-release-basecamp-val...

Once you make money, it's much harder to come up with outlandish numbers. A dry cleaners has a well-established range for revenue and profit, so it's hard to justify why it would be worth $100 billion.

Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by alasdair_ on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:01PM (#21708131)
>Once you make money, it's much harder to come up with outlandish numbers. A dry cleaners has a well-established range for revenue and profit, so it's hard to justify why it would be worth $100 billion.

If you want a cleaning company worth hundreds of millions, try ZZZZ Best https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zzzzbest.asp

Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by bdcravens on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:19PM (#21708660)
Actually 10 years ago. Here's the original: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...

The Medium version did update the terminology a bit (since RSS and 3G weren't as exciting in 2015 as they were in 2009, hah)