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This book examines the valuation of internet-enabled businesses across their industry life cycles, demonstrating the shifts in valuation multiples and drivers over time, providing a comprehensive framework to better understand and optimize business valuations. Internet Evolution as Natural Experiment: The internet’s rise – from innovation to necessity, driven by 5G and AI – offers a unique lens on valuation methodologies across industry life cycles.
Methodological Approach: Unprecedented quantitative and qualitative research analyzing 1,767 companies globally across 21 industries and 15 years, covering 120 multiples, 216 drivers, and 100 million data points.
Valuation Framework: It proposes a groundbreaking framework linking valuation multiples and drivers to industry life cycles, illustrating the shift from revenue- to profitability-based multiples and from growth-centric to growth-and-profitability drivers as companies mature.
Practical Implications: It concludes with recommendations for stakeholders on monitoring valuation multiples and drivers for value-maximizing strategies across virtually all mature and emerging technologies.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Dr. Adelin Trusculescu is a Managing Director specializing in Technology M&A, with 15 years’ experience and over 35 closed transactions. He holds a degree from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a doctorate from Politehnica University Timișoara. As an author, he has published numerous works on various aspects of corporate valuation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business Valuation Across the Industry Life Cycle
Book Subtitle: A Quantitative Study Focusing on Internet-Enabled Businesses
Authors: Adelin Trusculescu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-49126-0
Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Business and Economics (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-49125-3Published: 30 August 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-49126-0Published: 29 August 2025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 316
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: e-Business/e-Commerce, IT in Business, Computer Science, general