In previous rounds, Coinbase had raised a total of $ 117 million at
a private valuation approaching $ 500 million, as Fortune reported.
Not exact matches
Obviously in a very small company or
private sale this becomes much harder / impossible as it can't be floated in any meaningful way, but versions of this wisdom of crowd type effect can be done by
approaching a few outside parties and asking them what they would pay / how they would value it (similar to asking a few estate agents for
valuations of a house before a
private sale) to at least get some benchmark estimates of what similar
private players might pay.
Our
valuation methodology has a three pronged
approach: free cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, minus the capital expenditures necessary to grow the business); earnings per share trends; and
private market value (PMV), which encompasses on and off balance sheet assets and liabilities.