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Quora is valued at $900M? Wouldn't that mean its worth more than the stackexchange network? I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind that.

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- spamizbad 13y ago
  Nope, looks like they raised 18M total over 2 rounds. Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange
- amirmc 13y ago
  Not true. "Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A Financing" (2010): http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-a/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-... "Stack Overflow Raises $12 Million" (2011): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/stack-overflow-raises-12-million-from-investors-led-by-index.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/stack-overflow-rais... and also http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-overflow-with-surprise-ending/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-o...
- hglaser 13y ago
  Stack Exchange has raised two rounds totaling $18M from USV, Spark, Index and angels: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange Also from your link: "When I put all these things together the conclusion is that StackOverflow is one of those rare companies for which VC can really work."
sytelus 13y ago
You don't talk about rational during valuations of startups. It's all paper money and you put a number that pleases both of the parties. For example, you can give your friend $100 bill to start a company for leaf blowing and ask him to sign an agreement that you own 10th millionth of his company. What you just did in nutshell is value his company as a billion dollar business. This would just keep snowballing in next series rounds until Facebook is forced to buys it to protect its turf or they IPO it. After the exit, your company would falter and eventually evaporate because everybody is out the door after cashing out. Loosers are be "real" investors (i.e pension companies aka "your 401K"). I'm realizing the startups are game of eventual transfer of money from pension funds and 401Ks to smart aggressive get-rich-now personality types, at least 90% of the time.

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spamizbad 13y ago
Nope, looks like they raised 18M total over 2 rounds. Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange
amirmc 13y ago
Not true. "Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A Financing" (2010): http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-a/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-... "Stack Overflow Raises $12 Million" (2011): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/stack-overflow-raises-12-million-from-investors-led-by-index.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/stack-overflow-rais... and also http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-overflow-with-surprise-ending/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-o...
hglaser 13y ago
Stack Exchange has raised two rounds totaling $18M from USV, Spark, Index and angels: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange Also from your link: "When I put all these things together the conclusion is that StackOverflow is one of those rare companies for which VC can really work."

sytelus 13y ago

You don't talk about rational during valuations of startups. It's all paper money and you put a number that pleases both of the parties. For example, you can give your friend $100 bill to start a company for leaf blowing and ask him to sign an agreement that you own 10th millionth of his company. What you just did in nutshell is value his company as a billion dollar business. This would just keep snowballing in next series rounds until Facebook is forced to buys it to protect its turf or they IPO it. After the exit, your company would falter and eventually evaporate because everybody is out the door after cashing out. Loosers are be "real" investors (i.e pension companies aka "your 401K"). I'm realizing the startups are game of eventual transfer of money from pension funds and 401Ks to smart aggressive get-rich-now personality types, at least 90% of the time.