Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mark T. Osler Gary Miller, SDR Ventures. Many sellers of privately owned businesses overvalue their companies. This mistake is a major reason why businesses ...

Determining the right valuation for a company is critical for a potential investor. While there are typically various points of negotiation (the purchase agreement, legal rights, governance, the form ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP® ...

Valuing pre-revenue tech startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel artificial intelligence? What kind of issues arise ...

BDC Consulting’s most important mission is to help clients optimize the value of their business. The question then becomes: how do you assess a company’s value correctly? In this article, we will talk ...

Ryan Downie has 9+ years of equity research, financial consulting, and business ownership. He has 500+ published equity research works. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced ...

While you can establish the value of many goods by offering them for sale, the contingent valuation method represents another method of establishing value. This method is especially useful for ...

Divorce is challenging for any business owner, but for restaurant owners, it presents unique complexities—especially when determining the value of the business. A restaurant’s worth isn’t just about ...

In my May 2012 ValueNation column, I noted that while we are seeing the housing market start to level out, there are still a significant number of properties in default or foreclosure. These nearly ...