This is a highly speculative thesis, but I see a pattern and wonder:<p>Is the start-up market (perhaps subconsciously) manipulated by overvaluation?<p>Example:
Start Up X gets a boost from Y.
Y also has company W in their portfolio that rents office space.
Y says to X that it should rent the rooms from W.
Y is now not only an investor in W, but indirectly a customer of W.
Artificially, prices are now being driven up because of a conflict of interest. As a result, W is said to be worth many times more than similar companies.<p>Am I alone who sees a bubble here?<p>I'm just a simple software developer. Please don't take my economic unknowledge amiss.<p>I just want to know what the community is thinking?