Artikel voor Christine

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Onderstaand een link naar een artikel dat ik zojuist vond in www.TheChilli.com, een Engels magazine over technologie en financiering:

Venture-backed company valuations back to pre-bubble levels

Semiconductor companies hit $44 million

The median pre-money (before the next investment round is taken into account) valuation of U.S. venture-backed companies hit its highest point in four years in 2005 – reaching $15.2 million; this is according to VentureOne, a unit of Dow Jones’ enterprise media group.

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Dit artikel schrijft o.m. over een van de stokpaardjes van Christine nl. Amerikaanse entrepreneurs krijgen meer geld dan Europese:

So why do European companies have lower valuations?

There is an old adage that says ‘you reap what you sow’. European companies raise far lower amounts of capital at each of the funding rounds than their U.S. equivalents. As a result, they are not able to hire as many engineers and sales people as their U.S. counterparts; subsequently, they have a smaller customer footprint, which is reflected in their revenue figures.

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