If a company asks me to invest $ 2M at an $ 8M pre-money valuation, it means that to return 10x, startup might either sell for $ 100M, or that it will be able to pay out $ 20M in
dividends over the life of our investment so that I return $ 20M on my $ 2M investment.
Not exact matches
No single
investment must last for the entire span
of the investor's
life, because the investor ideally has a diversified portfolio
of several
dividend - paying companies, but the better the
investments perform
over the long - term, the lower the turn -
over rate
of the portfolio needs to be.
Advocates for Children
of New Jersey aims to strengthen the state's early learning system by enacting stronger public policies for young children and increasing
investments in programs and services that pay strong
dividends over the course
of a child's
life.
aims to strengthen the state's early learning system by enacting stronger public policies for young children and increasing
investments in programs and services that pay strong
dividends over the course
of a child's
life.
Editorially, Kiplinger's magazine has championed
over the decades a number
of personal finance strategies and
investment products that later became popular «conventional wisdom»: the superiority
of systematic investing (dollar cost averaging)
over market timing; growth stocks that paid little or no
dividends but invested in new technologies; mutual funds, especially no - load funds; stock index funds; term
life insurance, rather than whole -
life; and global investing.