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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 8141972" data-attributes="member: 2804">2x to 5x historically for small businesses. But tech deals and IP deals tend to go for more. I'm certainly making generalizations based on past deals that have gone public, plus the sale of firms in my own industry which is finance and tech. EA paid almost 900 million for Bioware back in 2007 I think. At the time that would have been a 6x to 8x deal. When Disney bought Marvel that was roughly a 10x deal, if I recall correctly, but Marvel was also highly leveraged at the time. Salesforce just bought Slack for 27 billion at over 20x its revenue, so many think they overpaid, but they really wanted Slack. So it depends.And of course it depends on what someone is willing to pay and how much of the IP is bound into one man's work. You are a machine, Morrus. I've been following this site since it was Eric Noah's 3e rumor site, and you since you took it over. There is certainly value in EN World, but a lot of that value is driven by your hard work. Unless they can also buy you to come with the site, I agree it wouldn't go for 10x because they cant replicate the value you bring. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 8141972, member: 2804"] 2x to 5x historically for small businesses. But tech deals and IP deals tend to go for more. I'm certainly making generalizations based on past deals that have gone public, plus the sale of firms in my own industry which is finance and tech. EA paid almost 900 million for Bioware back in 2007 I think. At the time that would have been a 6x to 8x deal. When Disney bought Marvel that was roughly a 10x deal, if I recall correctly, but Marvel was also highly leveraged at the time. Salesforce just bought Slack for 27 billion at over 20x its revenue, so many think they overpaid, but they really wanted Slack. So it depends. And of course it depends on what someone is willing to pay and how much of the IP is bound into one man's work. You are a machine, Morrus. I've been following this site since it was Eric Noah's 3e rumor site, and you since you took it over. There is certainly value in EN World, but a lot of that value is driven by your hard work. Unless they can also buy you to come with the site, I agree it wouldn't go for 10x because they cant replicate the value you bring. :) [/QUOTE]

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