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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

Main Quests and Side Quests: Always focus on your main story quest, i.e., your portfolio of liquid, publicly traded assets, and ignore or deprioritize the side quests, such as becoming a mini-VC or investing in real estate. Market Timing: Almost every expert will tell you its impossible to time the market, but I partially disagree.

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Cybersecurity M&A Update, Q2 2025

Solganick & Co.

Valuation multiples for publicly traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median of 14.2x Established in 2009 with offices in Dallas and Los Angeles. Deal count decreased to 497 in 1H 2025, compared with 595 in 1H 2024, reflecting fewer deals overall but a significant contribution from larger deals (>$100MM).

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Tiny acquires HappyFunCorp, the prolific firm that’s built apps for Twitter, Amazon and more, for $30M

TechCrunch: M&A

Tiny is based out of Canada and is publicly traded there with a current market cap of around $500 million. HappyFunCorp was founded in 2009, and in the last 14 years it’s racked up its own very long list of big-name customers. Similar to the other companies in the Tiny stable, it has up to now been bootstrapped and profitable.

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Raising finance: Convertible loan notes explained

Growth Business

This would typically be set at the notional market value at the time the CLNs are created, or the actual value if the issuer’s shares are publicly traded. This article was originally published on 15 July 2009 by Hunter Ruthven. If this market value has fallen then it is likely that he will wish to redeem their loan for cash.

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Cybersecurity Mergers and Acquisitions Update, Q3 2024

Solganick & Co.

Valuation multiples for publicly-traded cybersecurity companies ranged from a median 9.5x Formed in 2009, with offices in Los Angeles and Dallas, its professionals have completed over 200 M&A transactions to date. EV/2024E revenue for high growth (>20%) vendors to a median 4.0x

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Public SaaS Company Valuations and What They Mean for Private Companies

Software Equity Group

Public SaaS companies enjoyed an unprecedented run from 2009 through 2021, but last year brought a wave of macroeconomic uncertainty, including rising interest rates, record inflation, supply chain problems, and geopolitical unrest. It is no secret that 2022 was a rough year for the stock market. What is the SEG Index?

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Technology Services Mergers Update – Q1 2024

Solganick & Co.

Transactions announced in Q1 2024 include Globant’s acquisition of Iteris and EPAM’s acquisition of Vates. Publicly Traded Valuation Multiples and Tables are available in the report, here: Solganick Technology Services M&A Update – Q1 2024 Final About Solganick & Co.