'Alibaba' Tag
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Alibaba valuation: the comparables method
September 17, 2014The valuation analysis I released on the Facebook IPO two years ago proved popular, so I figure why not do it again for the hottest tech IPO planned this month: Alibaba. Please refer to my earlier piece on this topic for an explanation of the various valuation methodologies. Also, please note that my objective in […]
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Can eBay’s failure in China teach us something in Europe ?
March 18, 2014Most of us in the West have never shopped on Tmall or Jingdong. Yet these two firms represent the leaders of the imminently largest e-commerce market in the world: China. Although JD (formerly 360Buy) is a distant second to Alibaba’s Tmall platform, the firm still served a cool $16 billion worth of goods to 140 […]