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Exit Through the Virtual Door: Tips for Selling Your E-commerce Business

Viking Mergers

With that kind of earnings potential, you may expect it to be a seller’s market with buyers lined up to take advantage of e-commerce popularity. A professional valuation will provide vital insight into where your business fits in the broader industry and global e-commerce market.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

My version of the corporate life cycle is built around six stages with the first stage being an idea business (a start-up) and the last one representing decline and demise. Here again, the problem is that high growth industry groups begin to mature, just as companies do, and this has been true for some segments of the tech sector.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. To understand why, consider how fixed assets (such as plant and equipment and equipment) become part of the balance sheet.

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Equitest's Review on techozens.com: "The Best & Trusted Business Appraisal Software for Startups, CPA"

Startup Valuation Blog

Equitest ‘s online valuation platform includes all the tools needed to value a firm, or for a start-up to succeed: Ideally, you would need to choose the best provider that will fulfill all of your requirements in a cost-effective package. Let’s get started. . They resolved every last problem that I had set up.

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Challenging The Banks

Global Finance

Some 70% of residential mortgages in the US, the world’s largest banking market, are processed by nonbanks, according to Brian Graham, partner at the Klaros Group, which advises and invests in financial firms. In order for the banking sector to regain market share from nonbanks, banks will need to change how they compete for customers.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will look at corporate profitability, in all its different dimensions, and how companies across the globe, and across industries, measured up in the most recent years. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.