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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Next, the economy got pretty good starting in 2011 and most of those soon-to-exit owners were now saying, “recession, what recession, this is pretty good (so why would I sell)?”. Easy money.

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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business

This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). Not examining the context for planning has another side effect.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Case Study: Blue Apron.