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PJ Patel, Co-CEO & Senior Managing Director at Valuation Research Corporation (VRC)
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EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
08:37 Market Trends
11:15 Maximizing your company's valuation
12:24 Growth vs Cash flow
13:35 The effect of Storytelling on valuations
14:27 Investor's Influence on Valuation
17:14 Things to avoid as an operator
19:14 Common Mistakes in Valuation
20:53 Impairment
23:42 Implications of impairment
25:49 Purchase price allocation
29:05 Earnout structures
32:34 Length of earnouts
32:51 Computing for Earnouts
38:33 Negotiating Earnouts
41:06 Craziest thing in M&A
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