Startup Valuation Brief

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name: startup-valuation-brief
description: "An early-stage company needs a supportable valuation discussion. Produces A method-selection memo, assumptions ledger and defensible scenario range."
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# Startup valuation brief

Read references/working-templates.md. Establish purpose, date, currency, stage, capital structure and information availability. Distinguish enterprise value and equity value, pre-money and post-money, and a convertible valuation cap from a priced valuation. Select methods that data supports and explain rejected alternatives. For DCF, disclose revenue, margin, reinvestment, discount rate, terminal growth and survival assumptions; do not present a mechanically precise result as certainty. For comparable methods, require sourced dated metrics and disclose selection limitations. Bridge enterprise to equity value with cash, debt and other claims when relevant. Produce a range with sensitivity and an evidence ledger. If material data is absent, return a preparation plan or illustrative scenarios explicitly labelled as such, not a fabricated valuation.