Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation

Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by axod on Sunday January 25, 2009 @03:18AM (#448916)

Surely a valuation is meaningless until you are able to actually have a liquidity event.

If it was me, I'd recognize that the Twitter hype is probably peaking about now, and it's a good time to quit and take some cash.

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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by nazgulnarsil on Sunday January 25, 2009 @03:30AM (#448934)

it always looks like it's peaking if your growth is hyperbolic. whether or not they're idiots or geniuses is determined by the market.

but if I was running twitter I would certainly take $150 million in cash. If you still want to run a company well now you have cash and a success under your belt. Funding should be an order of magnitude easier.

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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by axod on Sunday January 25, 2009 @04:05AM (#448951)

"it always looks like it's peaking if your growth is hyperbolic."

Sure, but the fact we're even discussing $250m valuation for a company whos only real worth seems to be its users and possible future profit, should be a good pointer that this is a peak. Much like Facebook peaked.

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Re:Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation by mattmaroon on Sunday January 25, 2009 @04:23PM (#449549)

Twitter's founders have already had a prior success. Funding is already easy for them.

And if you would sell a company with that sort of traffic and growth for $150m, then I'm glad I'm not invested in it.

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