my biggest problem on the company we are in process with now is i had a hard time locating and discounting the external investments into the company. they were regular deposits and mixed in with the customer payments. i basically isolated any payment over $1000 and did not include it as a normal income payment.
there were months where external investers were infusing 10 and 15 thousand dollars. lets just say telrad was involved (and is not cheap!) ----- Original Message ----- From: Lewis Bergman To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Price per sub? I don't know if I would buy someone who couldn't figure EBITDA. How could you trust their books? Maybe if it was enough discount. On the other hand, if you know all the cost involved you don't really need EBITDA to evaluate a business. So many times it is cheaper and just as fast to just take the customers. For a network that small it wouldn't take much. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, 8:07 PM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: I hear that is around 12x - 18x months of revenue and a heck of a lot easier to calculate when ballparking. They know their revenue (or well, is somewhat easy to figure out). They probably can't spell EBITDA. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:16:00 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Price per sub? 4x ebitda From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Price per sub? How many subs? On Jan 11, 2017 3:13 PM, "Brett A Mansfield" <[email protected]> wrote: When looking at buying a competitor, I'm wondering what everyone's thought is on a price per sub? They don't do contracts and they use the litebeam hardware. I'm not looking for legal advice, just wondering what all of you think is fair. This company has about a 90% take rate in the area they're in. Their plans are $20, $40, and $50/mo. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield
