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

Musings on Markets

If your strength as an analyst or appraiser is in bounded story telling , you will be better served valuing young companies, whereas if you are a number-cruncher (comfortable with accounting ratios and elaborate spreadsheet models), you will find valuing mature companies to be your natural habitat.

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How to Get a BSPCE Valuation for Your Startup’s Employee Share Plan

Equidam

Comparables (Market Approach): This involves looking at comparable companies – either publicly traded peers or recent acquisitions of similar startups – to infer your company’s value. French startups frequently have preferred shares with liquidation preferences, meaning not all shares are equal in value.

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How to Value a Website or Internet Business in 2022

FE International

A DCF should be a serious consideration for investors appraising mature, stable businesses with predictable cashflows. That is, were the companies in those transactions valued as a multiple of EBIT , EBITDA , revenue, or some other parameter? At the time of writing, Facebook’s enterprise value is $527 billion.