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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. Since these values all mean different things to your company, an advisor or broker will use their expertise to determine the most appropriate figures to use in negotiations.

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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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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. Even a cursory glance at the companies that surround you should tell you that there are wide variations across companies, on these dimensions.

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M&A Deal Killers: Business Deal Breaker #4

Viking Mergers

But, if you take the time from the start to explore what could go wrong, you have time to reduce risk. The assets may be valued at replacement cost versus original cost, which could be higher. This method would deplete the value of your assets and lower the total value of your inventory.

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Challenging The Banks

Global Finance

One avenue for the banking sector is to start from scratch, as KakaoBank did in South Korea and Nubank in Brazil. Equity investors value Visa at 29 times earnings and 13 times book value, according to Bloomberg. Elsewhere, online-only “digital-attacker banks” are shaking up the landscape, Bain’s Breeden says.

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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. That would suggest that intangible assets are being valued and incorporated into balance sheets much more now than in the past.

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

Musings on Markets

At the start of the year, the consensus of market experts was that this would be a difficult year for markets, given the macro worries about inflation and an impending recession, and adding in the fear of the Fed raising rates to this mix made bullishness a rare commodity on Wall Street. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.