Edit: I'd like to clarify that the business model I'm suggesting feels different somehow. Yes people have built companies to flip before, but their valuation was still based on what they do as a company.
If what I am suggesting is true, Color's valuation is based on potential shares in the company that it's being flipped to. These VCs are essentially investing in Facebook, pre-IPO (set for 2012) without going through Goldman's special purpose vehicle, and without dealing with the SEC's 500 shareholder regulations.
If true, that would make this Color investment a very clever hack.
Edit: I'd like to clarify that the business model I'm suggesting feels different somehow. Yes people have built companies to flip before, but their valuation was still based on what they do as a company.
If what I am suggesting is true, Color's valuation is based on potential shares in the company that it's being flipped to. These VCs are essentially investing in Facebook, pre-IPO (set for 2012) without going through Goldman's special purpose vehicle, and without dealing with the SEC's 500 shareholder regulations.
If true, that would make this Color investment a very clever hack.