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Dec 18 2008

About lack of logic in valuation: Back to Facebook

Published in valuation, trading, strategic alliance, private companies, markets, market value, investors, informal market, finance, fads and fashions, Blog, alliances by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (1)

In November last year, I criticized the logic with which some people calculated the valuation of Facebook corporation to be 15 billion dollars (see an original article as well as a further comment and a related article). I suggested that perhaps the fundamental value of this corporation could more realistically lie between 3-5 billion. Now, an interesting new piece of analysis arrived today: Valleywag news site calculated Facebook's current value to be 2-3 billion.

The role of "scientific" theories in the financial crisis

Published in Trust, scientific research, researcher, opportunism, markets, investors, institutions, governance, financial services industry, finance, economics, Blog, academic research by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (1)

The academic world is often considered to be isolated from the real world. However, now that the world is struggling with an unprecedented financial crisis, one must (at last) pay attention to the role that academic theories may have in the real-world developments.

The dynamics between strategies and finance options (esp. venture capital)

Published in venture capital, strategy, recession, investors, financing, financial crisis, finance, Blog by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (0)

The dynamics between a firm's strategy and finance is one major research focus in GloStra (see e.g. http://www.glostra.fi/research/business-model-evolution, as well as http://www.glostra.fi/faculty/hse/120-jaakko-aspara). Therefore, it is interesting to ponder what implications the current financial crisis and looming recession have for the relationships between firms' strategies and finance options, such as venture capital.

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