Acquisition Balance Sheet Metrics Vertical 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). Jason Cohen also wrote a very insightful article about this issue.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 21, 2017
Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 28, 2022
One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. This number looks relatively low compared to $330B+ of cash and cash equivalents sitting on the balance sheet of the cloud giants and public companies in our global cloud Index.
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