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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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Company Alignment: The CEO's Roadmap to Organizational Alignment

Rhythm Systems

Alignment can be elusive for even the smallest start-up companies, never mind mid-market companies that have multiple divisions, departments, or business units, different locations, new acquisitions, or remote employees. And, as the CEO, aligning your company to succeed starts with you.

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Sun Acquisitions welcomes Mike Walton as a Senior M&A Advisor

Sun Acquisitions

Mike brings 25 years of experience in business ownership that includes start-ups, turnarounds, acquisition and sale of companies, specifically within media and IT industries. Mike specializes in establishing strategies for maximizing enterprise value and positioning a company for a sale to a synergistic buyer.

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Short-Term Business Loans: Can Fast Financing Help Your Startup Grow?

Lighter Capital

Short-term financing (12 months or less), which includes merchant cash advances (MCA) and merchant financing, often attracts startup founders looking for lower capital costs and quick access to cash — but those benefits can fade quickly if the loan terms don’t line up with what the business needs. QUESTION 1: What am I using the loan for?

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The Dividend Discount Model (DDM): The Black Sheep of Valuation?

Brian DeChesare

When I started offering financial modeling training , I never expected to get questions about a methodology like the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). It can be useful for certain companies, such as power and utility firms and midstream (pipeline) operators in oil & gas … …but it’s also much harder to set up and use than a standard DCF.

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Valuation Using Multiples—What Is It and How Does It Work? Core Ideas Explained

Valutico

Example: Here’s an example of a particular metric you might use: In order to determine the Enterprise Value of the business, you find the EBITDA from the business you’re valuing, and then multiply this by the EBITDA multiple observed from the other comparable companies. Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x

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Your Guide to Valuing a Company Using the Multiples Approach

Valutico

Example: Here’s an example of a particular metric you might use: In order to determine the Enterprise Value of the business, you find the EBITDA from the business you’re valuing, and then multiply this by the EBITDA multiple observed from the other comparable companies. Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x