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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x.

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