by Bradford Harries | Sep 13, 2019 | Articles
I have previously written on Unicorn valuations and the false impression that the last private equity round’s price multiplied by all the prior issued shares (all with different liquidation preferences and other terms) is the equivalent of what the company is worth as...
by Bradford Harries | Aug 19, 2018 | Articles
The recent article in The New York Times, $100 Million Was Once Big Money for a Start-Up. Now, It’s Common, prompted my thinking about the title’s observation that it is “common”. I didn’t truly understand its implication until the emails started coming in from...
by Bradford Harries | Jul 15, 2018 | Articles
Below is something I wrote in 2002 as the public markets were recovering from the dotcom bubble burst of 2000. This in turn was a repeat of a set of rules I wrote in the mid 1980s that I referred to as Brad’s Three Rules of Successful IPOs. Although the threshold...
by Bradford Harries | Jun 25, 2018 | Articles
PitchBook posed the question: Private vs. public market investors: Who’s reaping the gains from the rise of unicorns? I have previously written about the flaw in the analysis about Unicorns and feel this article does the same. See All Unicorns are Not Treated...
by Bradford Harries | Feb 21, 2018 | Articles
I was reading your blog post on “When I Finally Realized that CRE Tech was Gaining Serious Momentum” and your sense that finally the industry was moving past the “early adopters” attending CREtech and other events, to the increasing notice being taken by the real...
by Bradford Harries | Jan 2, 2018 | Articles
Toss A Coin For Uber’s New Valuation Crunchbase News Suggests Softbank’s Investment in Uber Created Confusion About “What’s Uber Worth” The question is wrong. It’s not “What’s Uber Worth?” because the premise that Softbank...
