Effective risk management is a core competency of successful entrepreneurs and investors. The entrepreneur should determine what the most important uncertainties are and how to test and mitigate those uncertainties at the lowest cost. Getting Funded develops frameworks and tools for...

Fair value concept is widely used in DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) business valuation. One of the main principle of fair value concept is full information symmetry between contracting parties. The assumption enforces specific way of FCF (Free Cash Flow) estimation: all areas of inefficiency of...

In this paper, we develop an enhanced corporate valuation model based on the implied cost of equity capital (ICC). We argue that the enhanced approach extends the standard market multiples and discounted cash flow (DCF) approaches to corporate valuation. Specifically, it incorporates positive...

This paper proposes a new discounted cash flows' valuation setup, and derives a general expression for the tax shields' discount rate. This setup applies to any debt policy and any cash flow pattern. It only requires the equality at any time between the assets side and the liabilities side of...

This dissertation suggests that the tax savings, in firm valuation, are discounted at a rate computed through a model presented in the literature review, which is different from the rates usually used for this purpose either by the top text books from, for example, Neves (2002), Ross,...

Venture Capital (VC) has emerged as the dominant source of finance for entrepreneurial and early stage businesses, and the Indian VC industry in particular has clocked the fastest growth rate globally. Academic literature reveals that VC funded companies show superior performance to non VC...

The DCF method or multiples are used to value companies in practice. Starting with the value additivity principle, the paper presents a general framework for DCF valuation. This framework allows defining stepwise and aggregated approaches to value risky cash flows and identifying inconsistent...

By means of a company merger formerly legally and economically independent companies are tied up to an economic entity. To order the financial state of affairs after the merger, the current shareholders must revalue their stake in the merged company. The interest is focused on the valuation of...

We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform industry, where there are strong network externalities and some customers face switching costs. A high probability of an acquisition induces some potential early adopters to wait for...