As software and biotechnology transactions take up an increasing percentage of overall venture capital investment and deal activity, valuations and deal terms will be an important factor in the outlook for exit opportunities and continued investment. For software companies, the average valuation over the past 18 months totaled $79.5 MORE >>

In a previous post, Business Valuation in Divorce is Different, we discussed why Investment Value is more appropriate in the context of family law.  In a Fair Market valuation, the objective is to determine what a hypothetical “willing buyer” would pay a hypothetical “willing seller” in a hypothetical “free market” etc.  Here’s why. MORE >>

Retaining key employees is extremely important for ongoing operations, and in building value for a potential sale of the company.  Tags: Business Strategy Business Valuation active garage exitrak sar program steve popell stock appreciation rights stock options stocks Not to worry.  The next post will discuss this important topic. MORE >>

You don’t have the kinks to your product settled, you don’t understand your market well enough to be marketing to them efficiently enough, and raising money buys you the time you want to scale an ineffective operation. Crappier valuation, more dilution for the team. berkeley valuation VC venture capital Only $30k. MORE >>

Business has its own culture and operations and “a life of its own&#. Operations of the unit too tethered to the mothership. In terms of valuation expectations, don’t expect to get any credit for synergies.  Selling a Line of Business. The Authentic Response spin-out was also partially chronicled by Inc. MORE >>