Gerald W. Barney

Street-smart Guide to Valuing Business Investments: a Practical Guide to Value for Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, Vc Investors, and Business Buyers (Street-smart Guides) (Volume 1) Gerald W. Barney 1st edition

This book cuts through the mystery of business valuation, and provides practical advice to business owners, investors, entrepreneurs and business buyers. The author and his partners have approximately a combined 200 years of experience in dealing with business valuation issues, both for the tax-related, and investment-oriented purposes as well as many years of entrepreneurial management experience. It deals extensively with valuation of start-ups and emerging companies with an orientation toward angel investors and Venture Capital. But it also of equal value to one who wants to buy or sell a business. It covers other related aspects such as Intellectual Property, ESOPs, 401k equity investments, and problem solving in the transaction phase. It contains Street-Smart Tip boxes which will help the reader to focus on key advice. In short -- it is a "must have" book for virtually everyone dealing in the arena of privately held businesses, and those who would like to go public.