Valuation Questions

I'm in the middle of negotiating an exit of a software startup company. My partner is interested in buying me out. We're negotiating on the valuation. Obviously a detailed analysis requires a lot...

Valuation

asked Apr 13 '11 at 02:29

Erotsppa
139 points

I'm looking for a real world calculation for how much profit or projected profit we should expect a company to be making before we apply a valuation of X amount of money. What is a realistic...

Valuation

asked Apr 2 '11 at 20:24

Bomb Defused
227 points

We are a young B2B SaaS Startup operating in the Social CRM space. First time Entrepreneurs, but with plenty of experience in our respective areas of work. We've received financial grant of 50,000...

Valuation

asked Apr 8 '11 at 17:03

Dhana
16 points

Forget about whether this means we're in a bubble or all the talk about whether this was smart or not, but a new application company (social photo sharing) raised $41MM. They spent $500k on the...

Silicon Valley Valuation

asked Mar 25 '11 at 01:32

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

I've recently been approached by a potential partner to buy a piece of custom software that I have written, and I'm struggling with a way to value the software. They would like to buy the source...

Software Valuation Licensing Royalties

asked Mar 5 '11 at 10:11

Matthew Dorian
292 points

A potential investor is asking us to account for our own (so far unpaid) time when evaluating the amount of money invested in the company to date. How do we account for it - it's not like we've...

Investment Valuation

asked Feb 23 '11 at 13:34

Blueberryfields
426 points

I've been running a bootstrapped startup since last year and am running into definite limitations as to what I can do without further funding. Startup enables elasticity for Microsoft's cloud...

Funding Venture Capital Valuation

asked Feb 15 '11 at 05:56

Igorek
886 points

Assume a website that provides a free service to a certain community (disability related). The site is run by a charitable foundation and there's no charge for the users of the site. There are 2...

Non Profit Website Valuation

asked Dec 17 '10 at 08:57

Howie
148 points

I am going to join a start-up founded by one of my colleagues. He made a mobile app by which he won some prizes, and got funding from a government program. He is the only one in the company and...

Valuation

asked Jan 1 '11 at 08:09

Mbaddar
6 points

I have a complete CRM for a high growing industry and having 2 customers, one of them being a huge company. I also come with a background of almost 15 years in IT and a hard core ERP/CRM/Enterprise...

Valuation

asked Nov 7 '10 at 18:20

Taknev
11 points

A lot of products and services come with free trials and money-back guarntees, which sets the bar pretty low for those who don't/can't provide either. Obviously, the trick is to establish value and...

Sales Trial Valuation

asked Mar 29 '10 at 11:08

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

I want to know, from a purely programmers/developers point of view, if you had to pay build this website, how much would you ask to do it? The site is http://www.marketdock.com Some features: *...

Cost Website Valuation Web Dev

asked Mar 27 '10 at 01:23

User2940
121 points

If all you have right now is an idea how do you value a company? See I want to build a software package and I have been doing research on my main competitors and such but at the end of the day how...

Investment Valuation

asked Feb 1 '10 at 16:37

Aaron
124 points

I have developed a website and now it is under internal testing. What does my website do? On the one hand, if you want someone to do something for you, you can use my website, and you need to pay...

Pricing Website Valuation

asked Jan 13 '10 at 12:16

Steven
1 point