A reminder to fight dependency on your key customers
Do you use Firefox? It’s been the third most popular web browser (down from second after Google’s Chrome passed it last year). But now it may become an object lesson for any company that is dependent on a single major customer.
It turns out that the Mozilla Foundation which maintains Firefox is fairly substantial–it [...]
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Can you move up the list of most reputable companies?
The Reputation Institute and Global RepTrak Pulse recently released their findings of the world’s 100 most reputable multinational companies. Forty eight thousand consumers across fifteen markets participated in the study. “Reputation has become an increasingly critical intangible asset,” says Dr. Charles Fombrun, now Chairman of the Reputation Institute.
Companies are scored on:
emotional indicators, i.e., trust, esteem, [...]
Should your company be filing foreign patent applications?
Inovia, the foreign patent filing platform, conducted a survey of 150 U.S. companies to assess the impact of the U.S. economy on global IP strategy. Their US IP Trends Report is an in-depth look at the foreign filing strategies of U.S. patent owners. The survey found U.S. patentees have become more selective and judicious about their [...]
Ten reasons why brand valuation is important to business owners–and how to increase your value
“The corporate brand is probably the least understood asset in most companies, yet it can be one of the greatest tools to building corporate value,” says James Gregory (CoreBrand) in his article, “Ten Reasons Brand Valuation Matters for Boards.” Valuation practitioners can use his “Top 10” list to educate business owners on the potential value [...]
The best entrepreneurial ideas are often the simplest
You don’t hear a lot about people increasing value in the grocery store world, at not least since Whole Foods made it’s move toward market dominance. But here’s an example of beating a leader at their own game and building a niche. Thanks to The Daily Good (dailygood@goodinc.com) for this great description of In.gredients’ [...]
Think your employees understand how to protect intangible assets? IDC says you’re making a $37 billion mistake
A new IDC study commissioned by Cognisco shows that risk management strategies have failed to account for actions or errors of omission by employees based on misunderstood policies, processes, job functions—or a combination of all three. Two-thirds of most company’s value is now in intangibles related to human capital–and those employees are currently making $37 [...]
Private Capital Markets: Valuation, Capitalization, and Transfer of Private Business Interests, Second Edition
Now fully revised and in its second edition, Private Capital Markets provides appraisers, accountants, lawyers, bankers, estate planners, intermediaries, and other professionals with a framework for making sound investment and financing decisions based on their own needs and experiences.
“In the years since publication of the first edition of Private Capital Markets, the concepts and ideas [...]
What do we really mean when we say we’ve accounted for risk?
Sergio Focardi, author of the CFA Institute’s Investment Management after the Global Financial Crisis, recognizes that valuation needs to account fully for risks…certainly from “hidden sources of extreme risk,” particularly discounts for lack of liquidity. “There are huge potential losses” in asset value “when positions need to be unwound prematurely.”
Focardi notes how the impact of [...]
Here’s a list of things NOT to do to increase the value of your company
New data released today from Valuation Advisors confirms that bad management significantly increases the time it takes to sell a business–and significantly decreases the value of the business. Valuation Advisors captures their data by looking at how much stock is discounted prior to an initial public offering (IPO). Value will be decreased more than [...]
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