Venture capital valuation methods : challenges and opportunities to current trends and landscape

The venture capital industry needs to gather their resources and expertise with the aim of
developing a standardized guideline system which can help investors reduce the subjectivity of
alternative startup valuation methods, which rely highly in qualitative scales and procedures.
However, their use as a block can be helpful to tackle the uncertainty of the decision process,
as they all emerge as a surrogate answer to the mechanical and highly quantifiable standard
methodologies characteristic of more consolidated and stable phases of the company life
cycle.