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Welcome to the Wild West of Venture Capital

Ty McMahan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 8:05 am PT

Inflated valuations typically signal that a particular investment segment is overheated. Deals in the digital and social media category, for instance, are becoming so expensive for venture investors that they may invoke an unsavory label–bubble.

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Numbers Games: Putting a Price on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Russell Garland, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 8:11 am PT

What’s Twitter Inc. worth? Venture investors valued the social networking start-up at $1.13 billion in its most recent financing round in September. Some holders of common stock think it’s worth even more–$1.3 billion.