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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B. The management teams of both companies may want to be valued at 15x 2020 revenue — in other words, both companies would be worth $300 million. Not too shabby!

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. Any industrial company that exports part of its production automatically qualifies for benefits under the law.