LearnVest: A recession-era founder who sold her company for $375 million reveals how a spreadsheet of her own design helped her make smart choices around valuations

Alexa Von Tobel, a venture capitalist, shares a lesson with founders from her days as an entrepreneur. As the founder of LearnVest, she used a spreadsheet to track all the companies that could acquire her startup, but at different valuations. A company's ballooning valuation looks like success, but it also shrinks the number of would-be acquirers, von Tobel said. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As the founder of a hot startup, Alexa von Tobel used to keep a spreadsheet of all the would-be acquirers of her business. The spreadsheet, she said, parceled up all the publicly traded companies that had billions of dollars in the bank and could... Read More