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What criteria should a company meet in order to have a 5 million dollars valuation?

31st December 2011

My answer to What criteria should a company meet in order to have a 5 million dollars valuation? on Quora

They need to convince an investor to buy 10% of the company for $500,000.

Posted 31st December 2011 at 10:12 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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