"There is now considerable research devoted to testing the dividend pricing model as a predictor of the actual prices of shares traded in financial markets. A general finding is that present value models are not good predictors of asset prices. This lack of fit is interpreted as excess...

In this paper we build an index of value for venture capital. Our approach overcomes the problems of intermittent, infrequent pricing of private company deals by using a repeat valuation model to build the index, and it corrects for selection bias in the reporting of values. We use a unique data...