Preferred Return - Audit-Proof 409A Business Valuation Reports

What Drives Valuation Multiples? Analyzing the Impact of Growth, Unit Economics, and Profits

To determine the drivers of high valuation multiples, we analyzed data on the growth, unit economics, and profits of 60 public tech companies to find out which factors primarily contributed to enterprise value.

What is WeWork's Valuation? Our Perspective on "$47 Billion"

WeWork's IPO price has been reported from $47B to $20B or lower. What will it really be, and why is there such a wide range of possible valuations?

Report: Public Tech Company Revenue and Earnings Multiples 2015-2019

How do investors in public companies value performance? We analyzed 60 public tech companies' revenue multiples and earning multiples from 2015 to 2019 to find out.

Riding the Coattail: M&A by 2019's IPO Tech Companies

Who did 2019's IPO tech companies acquire? We looked at 15 venture-backed tech companies to understand what the companies they acquired pre-IPO had in common.

What’s in an ASC 820 Valuation Report?

How does an analyst apply the guidelines from ASC 820 as they value each position in a VC fund's portfolio? In this post, we lay out the process and explain common methods for determining enterprise value and stake value.

What is ASC 820 and how do venture funds value their portfolios?

Valuing a portfolio for financial reporting and compliance purposes can be a challenge for venture capital funds. The rules and guidelines in ASC 820 help analysts perform reliable valuations on each illiquid asset in a fund's portfolio.

ASC 718 for Startups: An Overview of Accounting and Stock-based Compensation

As your company grows, you will need to prepare GAAP-compliant financials, and you will quickly find that you have to comply with Accounting Standards Codification topic 718, or ASC 718, which describes how to report stock-based compensation in your corporate accounting.

What’s an “idea” worth? Understanding startup IP valuation and intangible assets

Increasingly, company value is attributable to intangible assets, like intellectual property—so how do we decide what IP is worth?

Unicorn University: Which school produced the most startup unicorns

Which universities produce the most number of founders creating billion dollar companies ("Unicorn Founders")?

For HashiCorp's Armon Dadgar, age is a double-edged sword

We talked to Armon to see what's it like to build a billion+ dollar B2B company while in his 20's. Hint: Not easy.

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