Valuing Early Stage

One of the most misconstrued concepts in business today, valuation has also rapidly become one of the most important forbusiness owners in today's unpredictable financial atmosphere.

An experiential and practical guide drawn from author andvaluation expert Neil Beaton's fifteen years of focused start-upwork, Valuing Early Stage and Venture-BackedCompanies equips you with a solid foundation of the ins andouts of early stage and venture-backed valuations--no matterwhat your field.

This step-by-step guide offers contributions from top valuationpractitioners, walking you through:

• New techniques for applying options methods

• The pros and cons of the option pricing model

• Early stage preferred stock rights

• Applicable discounts for early stage companies

• New procedures for implementing the probability-weightedexpected returns method

• Valuation theory, the consensus view on application, and thetools to apply them

• The popular and widely used AICPA Practice Aid, Valuation ofPrivately-Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation

Valuing Early Stage and Venture-Backed Companies replacesbewildering computations with technical expertise to help youfigure out what your business is really worth, and how you canincrease that value starting today.