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want to get the right valuation for your business, be sure to
find the right valuation expert for the job.  There comes a time
in the life of every small business when its owner looks up
momentarily from the daily letting of blood, sweat and tears to
ask the question: Just what is this thing worth?  Whether you're
considering selling the business, recruiting new investors,
bringing employees into ownership or gifting the business to
heirs, a business valuation can help you put a more precise
number on its present and future value. But the valuation of a
privately held business--particularly a small company that may
not have a lot of comparable statistics in its industry to look
at--is an imprecise science based partly on hard numbers and
partly on soft figures, such as cash-flow projections and other
intangible assets and subjective criteria. How, then, can you be
sure you're getting a fair number?  For starters, you need a
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