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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less. However, too many small business owners see in the Wall Street Journal that a $300 million company in their industry sold for ten times earnings and assume their small business will also sell for ten times.

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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. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S.