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How to Read a Valuation Report: Key Sections, Assumptions and Red Flags
How to critically read a valuation report — the different report types (409A, DCF, portfolio, private placement, 11UA), a worked example of how one weak assumption nearly triples a conclusion, and the red flags to check.
Commercial Valuation: How Commercial Assets and Businesses Are Valued
How commercial assets, businesses, and commercial real estate are actually valued — the cost, sales comparison, income, and market approaches, each worked with real numbers and reconciled into one figure.
Post-Money Valuation Explained: Formula, Examples and Its Impact on Startup Equity
Post-money valuation isn't one number. It's an equity number and an enterprise number, and they aren't the same.
Startup Valuation Methods: How Investors Value Pre-Revenue and Growth-Stage Startups
A pre-revenue startup has no cash flow to discount. Here is what investors calculate instead.
LeadSquared Valuation and How SaaS Companies Are Valued
What's actually known about LeadSquared's funding and valuation history — and the multiples, methods and benchmarks used to value any SaaS company properly.
Discount for Lack of Marketability (DLOM): Calculation, Formula
The Chaffe, Finnerty and Longstaff DLOM models worked with real, verified numbers — plus what the Stout DLOM Calculator actually does, and how appraisers choose between them.