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Is DCF valuation applicable to startups?

DCF valuation is wildly spread in public markets to understand the price of publicly traded companies, but can it be applied to early stage, high growth, high risk ventures? Here are two main startup-specific adjustments to DCF methods to soften the limitations of forecast accuracy for startups that can not only expand its usefulness in early stage valuation but also make it a reliable check...

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Israel: amazing hub for amazing startups. Here 10 that deserve more attention

With more than 7,000 startups, Israel is considered the world’s second largest hub of entrepreneurship after the USA according to the Global Startup Ranking Ecosystem 2015. This result is quite impressive, especially if one considers that the country population adds up to only 8,5 million people.An HBR research listed three main reasons underlying these astonishing results: the early role of...

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