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Interesting short blog post offering data for how one relatively high volume angel investor views early stage valuation correlated to revenue traction:
https://goo.gl/iei9Jc

Taking the Valuation Curve Seriously

is bringing sexy back with its highest :
https://goo.gl/wO1VsE

Bitcoin reaches highest total valuation of $14 billion Bitcoin has bounced back after a mid-2016 currency hack by posting its highest ever valuation.

Proven playbook. Take a good model and move it to a new geography. Can pay off big: https://goo.gl/HiFgwo

Uber’s Middle East Rival Just Got a $1 Billion Valuation The four-year-old company just finished its Series D funding round.

Timely given all the discussion on fund mark-downs of private company holdings:
https://goo.gl/kCBghk

The Challenges That Funds Face in Valuing Private Companies

Great article on gaps between public and private company valuations w Stripe as the prime example:

Mind the Gap in Tech Startup Valuations Everyone thinks they're different. That's often not the case.

Industry professionals are rallying to try to shoot down the proposed #2704 regs
https://goo.gl/g1Fjbw

Family Business Owners Decry Estate Tax Valuation Rules At Treasury Hearings Will 2704 regulations curbing valuation discounts withstand a Trump presidency?

A Greener Equity blog post on valuation in the ma*****na industry:
https://goo.gl/3yl1S8

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Check out the latest post to our blog. Now that our site is looking solid, we are firing up the blog again:
https://goo.gl/0Wa49n

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year At the end of every year, individuals are full of the giving spirit and many call this the most wonderful time of the year. But, if you are the key accounting or finance person in your organization, then this time of year can be far from the most wonderful time of year.

It's a stretch to call this an article on valuation, but this plane looks really cool:
https://goo.gl/sIbEUi

IFG prepares to disclose Optica valuation US consultancy InterFlight Global (IFG) is poised to issue its valuation of the idiosyncratic AeroElvira Optica observation aircraft programme, and the potential buyer says it is impressed with what it has seen during preliminary evaluations.

Another example of a mutual fund markdown of their investment in a private company. Should mutual funds be investing in private companies at all? What do you think?
https://goo.gl/iCK3fU

Flipkart valuation slashed to $5.54 bln by investor Morgan Stanley This is the fourth consecutive markdown by Morgan Stanley, one of the bigger mutual fund investors in India's most valued internet company.

This is led by Google's VC arm. A really bullish valuation in an otherwise more challenging market:
https://goo.gl/qMzcdZ

Stripe’s Valuation Nearly Doubles to $9.2 Billion Stripe, whose software is used by businesses to accept and track digital payments, will be valued at $9.2 billion in a new funding round that is being completed, the company said.

A bit dated, but good overview of what and are trying to do with standards
https://goo.gl/kLtqNN

Valuation framework seeks to define ‘how much’ is enough | Compliance Week The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Society of Appraisers, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors have teamed up and issued for public comment a proposed Mandatory Performance Framework that is meant to help define just how much work, analysis, and documentation