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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by endtwist on Sunday January 25, 2009 @01:39AM (#448820)
Perhaps I'm missing something important here, but how are these companies (Facebook, Twitter, et al) being valued? I know there is "potential" value here, but who comes up with the actual numbers?
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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by eru on Sunday January 25, 2009 @04:47AM (#448972)
Everybody guesses and whoever guesses too high by the largest error, gets his bid accepted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse

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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by fallentimes on Sunday January 25, 2009 @02:06PM (#449387)
Poorly.

With many assumptions and the ignoring of many variables combined with one (or more) of these business valuation methods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation_(finance)

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