Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I think that’s only partially true because the level at which valuations are going out of control right now is way beyond the kind of rational justification that you presented. Robert Reffkin: Uber has raised $40 billion. You can say that’s a huge valuation. If a majority of cars in the country are

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Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You said you raised a lot of money. What’s the total amount of financing you raised? Robert Reffkin: $73 million. Sramana Mitra: Why have you raised so much money? What have you done with that money? Robert Reffkin: We raised $73 million because we wanted to hire the best people we possibly could.

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Infineon: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Last month, we discussed in detail the various businesses of Infineon and also peeked into its strategy. We noted that Qimonda was the cause of most of its miseries. We also suggested acquisition and growth possibilities for the German company. Against this background, it is time for us to look

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Infineon: Wireless Business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We recently evaluated Infineon’s industrial and automotive business and its wireline communications business. Let’s now take a quick look at its wireless communications business, which has been in the news for the past year due to the company’s presence in the iPhone.

Infineon: The Qimonda Challenge

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the last part of this series, we looked at Infineon’s recent financials and pointed out that Qimonda is a key reason why the company is struggling to create more shareholders’ value. Let us now take a deeper look into Qimonda’s challenges and Infineon’s strategic initiatives to address the situation.

Deal Radar 2008: Geni

Geni allows you to build your family tree online. It is free and easy to use and was built to create “a family tree of the world.” Users in the tree are able to email others and invite them to join their tree. Family members are able to share information and photos and build the

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Infineon: Financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the first part of this series, I presented an overview of the company’s various business segments. With that as the background, let us look into the company’s recent financials.

Infineon: Company Overview

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author We have, over the past year, presented detailed valuation theses for various mobile chipset vendors namely Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, InterDigital, Marvell and STMicroelectronics. This matrix will not be complete without Infineon – the German Chipmaker.