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The Siren Song of Sustainability: The Theocratic Trifecta's Third Leg!

Musings on Markets

Before we look at how those definitions have evolved, it is instructive to start with three measures of sustainability, measuring (in my view) very different things: Planet sustainability , measuring how our actions, as consumers and businesses, affect the planet, and our collective welfare and well being.

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Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation

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” As we saw from the SVB data, the median revenue for a Series A right now is $2.5M, up from $1.4M, a 75% increase. Get started with a credible valuation that investors respect. The root cause lies in how different marketplace models define and record GMV.

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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

The act has been a major shift in the governments rhetoric toward investments and the business community, notes Imani Muhingo, head of research and financial analytics at Tanzanian broker and investment advisory Alpha Capital. million Official languages: English and Swahili GDP per capita (2023): $1,224 GDP growth (2024, projected): 5.4%

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Price vs Value (Part 2): The Financialisation of Startup Investing

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Based on what we’ve seen in 2021 and beyond, there’s no guarantee that company ends up being worth anything. So you took cash out of a thing that ended up at zero […] but taking it out that early causes some uneasiness… Am I taking cash out of a thing that’s still ephemeral, I don’t really know what it is?

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The first is that they have low correlations with financial assets (stocks and bonds), allowing for diversification benefits and the second is investments in some of these alternative asset groupings have the potential to earn excess returns or alphas.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

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AE Industrial’s ‘Captain’ Kirk Konert On Firefly Beating Musk’s SpaceX, PE Space Race

Global Finance

People are starting to believe that theres a real opportunity to invest capital. So, we show those success stories and say, Look, you might see headlines of a rocket blowing up Were not investing in that. And we started to notice that SpaceX was a line item in our company and thought, Is this something we want to focus on?