Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise

David Audretsch () and Albert Link

No 11-20, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper focuses on valuation issues and methods that are related to a closely-held entrepreneurial enterprise. This focus is motivated by the fact that the number of small closely held business start-ups, which we refer to broadly by the term entrepreneurial enterprises, continues to grow year after year, and new business ventures remain the primary source for employment growth in the United States and most industrialized nations. And, the topic of the valuation of an entrepreneurial enterprise has for the most part been ignored. The traditional approaches to the valuation of small closely held entrepreneurial enterprises are, in our view, wanting in a number of important respects. Simply, traditional valuation methods are modeled in a manner that is applicable to a going-concern business with a history of sales and revenues. That is not the case for an entrepreneurial enterprise as we define it, and thus the use of traditional valuation methods is questionable.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Closely-held Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2011-11-10
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