Valuation of early stage high-tech start-up companies

International Journal of Business

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 216-231

  Festel, Gunter ^a,b   Wuermseher, Martin ^a   Cattaneo, Giacomo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Festel Capital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beta coefficient; Business angels; Business valuation; Capitalisation rate; Discounted cash flow method; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884312547     PISSN: 10834346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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