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Title: Poor Guide to Valuing Business For Sale
Review: Book was written primarily for the purpose of valuing businesses for estate tax purposes. Provides a lot of IRS code information and tips to beat the IRS. Blackman does NOT, however, provide a reasonable analytical framework for providing a valuation for actually buying or selling a business, or for valuing the business for the purpose of selling partial equity (such as to a venture capitalist).Blackman's writing style is also painful to read -- full of trite, archaic cliches.
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