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Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation

Equidam

High liquidity creates a virtuous cycle: buyers return because they’re likely to find what they want, sellers return because they’re likely to make sales, and both behaviors reinforce each other. ” 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.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

That may reflect the concern that once a person or entity starts borrowing to fund its needs, it is easy to overuse debt, and risk its wellbeing in the process. In that case, the optimal debt ratio for a company is the one that maximizes value, not necessarily the one at which the cost of capital is minimized.

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