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Measures like Price-Earnings Ratio and EBITDA multiples are just gross generalizations of the value of your business. Here's how to determine the real value. Estimating the value of your business is usually calculated through measures such as earnings, EBITDA, and “comp” multiples.

Profit and revenue tell you a lot--but they don't tell you everything about the health of your business. Every business focuses on and measures revenue

Want to shake up an entire industry? Use this story as inspiration. Where do you look for disruptive change opportunities in your business

Understanding customer value is by far the most important factor when looking for ways to grow your business. We’re finance guys at heart , but we’ve learned that metrics such as operating profits, EBITDA, and revenue growth can only approximate the real performance driver of your business: customer value

If you use it right, LinkedIn can be one of the most powerful tools in your HR toolbox. There are few decisions more important than hiring. A bad hire costs you time, money, training and lost opportunity

How does one get over their fear and start talking and networking with those that can help your business, from VC rockstars to possible partners? Even a personal hero, such as Nike cofounder Phil Knight? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Never Eat Alone (2005) by Keith Ferrazzi .

Steven Spielberg’s animated feature The Adventures of Tintin opened this week, closing out another year full of big-budget movies based on comic books and graphic novels. Tintin joins properties like Captain America, X-Men, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Thor in the seemingly endless cavalcade of four-color characters to make it to the big screen. And 2011 was a relatively light year

I'm hiring a college intern for the winter break. So I mapped out a plan to make it worthwhile for my start-up--and for her. I have some public relations needs for FamiliesGo! that I haven't been able to get to and I'm not ready to pay a professional PR firm

What if you had to change your company name and URL and hope your customers would find you again?

With the economic downturn, can companies still become great? We continue our examination of the business book Good to Great with an interview of author Jim Collins. What was the impetus for you to write Good to Great

Short temper, weight gain, and high stress: Your business is doing this to you. Make these simple fixes to boost your mental and physical well-being.

Why, oh why?

Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in a five-part series of articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he reveals how to uncover dead-weight employees. Your company is failing –heading toward bankruptcy or even closing its doors forever

Balancing competing demands is just part of being an entrepreneur. But what do you do when your customers square off against your investors? Of all the balancing acts an entrepreneur faces, one of the trickiest is trying to keep investors and customers happy at the same time.

To create customers loyal enough to stand in line for you, start by earning the loyalty of your employees. And there's only one way to do that. In a world where careers have become as portable as cell phones and BlackBerrys, ordinary loyalty is fast disappearing from the business landscape.