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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Until we weren’t.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. As I’ve pointed out previously, this is perfectly captured by Joe Floyd here tracking SaaS multiples over time. This corrected only to go back up to 13.4x

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