A founder explains how startup valuation mixes art and science, walking through the factors that move a price and the common mistakes sellers make on platforms like Microacquire when pricing their companies.
Like they can come back with, I think this is priced too high. Well, what do you think it's worth it. And if you get. Because valuing a startup is like part art and science. You know, it's the potential of the business. It's. Is it growing? Is it, you know, what market is it in? Do you have Microsoft on a 10 year? There's so many variables. So just getting, you know, that feedback from the market can be like the difference maker. Because the number one reason that a lot of startups don't sell on Microcquire is they just price 10x annual recurring revenue. And those multiples are really reserved for when you're at scale.
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