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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. Juniper forecasts 1 billion mobile VoIP users by 2017. As for Juniper’s 2017 forecast, that’s quite possible. The only interference we see is from Vodafone in some countries, and in Iran. Do you know if and where Viber is currently being blocked?

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Future Presidential Elections in the USA – What should the business world expect?

The Startup Magazine

Incumbent Republican president Donald Trump will seek re-election, but the forecasts tell us that 2020 is going to be a year full of many other surprises businesswise. It didn’t take too long for the forecasts based on their policies to appear! Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay. This division created a rupture in the U.S.’