A professional business valuation is a strategic tool for making data-driven growth decisions, strengthening your company and being fully prepared to meet your exit timeline.
An M&A auction for a small company is often at odds with a large acquirer or customer. Here are a few of the dynamics of a strategic sale and an alternative approach to make it happen.
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By Guest Author Ann Quinn of Quinn Strategy Group—Many business owners neglect focusing on building the long-term value they’ll need their business to have when they’re ready to exit and sell. Here’s how to tackle the day-to-day while also making moves toward your end game.
Business and financial journalists seem to love stirring the pot when reporting on investments in 100X Club technology companies. Most currently, those in AI. By doing it in an oversimplified manner and in an information vacuum, they make investors sound crazy; like sheep following each other off a cliff. This
Market valuation methodologies differ for public versus private companies. This article will help you understand nuances that, unfortunately, confuse even the most respected business and financial media.
The data cannot be denied; mega-rounds are a reality. They are driven by lots of capital seeking outsized investment returns.
When there is a dramatically lower IPO valuation of a company compared to many prior lofty capital raises, many market commentators ponder the financial impact to those most recent investors who must be disappointed that their investment is seemingly “underwater.” Here’s why concern is unwarranted.
No one can know where the bottom of this market is, except in retrospect.
We know from the history of recessions that thousands of mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions occur each year, even in an economic downturn. In this strange coronavirus recession, who is going to buy your business and how much will they pay?
A set of rules I wrote in the mid 1980s that I refer to as my Three Rules of Successful IPOs. They still hold true today and serve as a quick initial litmus test for starting a discussion about going public.
The short answer? The last preferred stock investor with the top most liquidation preference is reaping the gains. Here’s why.
My response to Michael Beckerman of The News Funnel about the importance I ascribe to the development of venture capital sources of capital as part of the ecosystems necessary for CRE Tech to gain momentum.
The question is wrong. It’s not “What’s Uber Worth?” because the premise that Softbank paid two different prices for the SAME share of stock is wrong.
Even the best technologies require generational transitions of leadership before the full potential of the technology can be seen.
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Doug is one of the most respected middle market investment banking professionals in the Mid-Atlantic and has actively contributed to the growth of the region’s business community for over 30 years.
Brad spent the majority of his 40-year career with Wall Street firms developing unique expertise in serving the corporate finance needs of emerging growth companies.
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