Week 13 Reading Reflection

Hello everyone!

Welcome to week 13's reading reflection on Chapter 14 (Valuation of Entrepreneurial Ventures) of Donald Kuratko's entrepreneurship textbook!

I didn't know that there was so much work involved in business valuation! I also discovered its importance in this chapter. I really had no idea how the process for valuation even started. For some reason, I feel like most of the information isn't common knowledge-- even though it should be.

While this chapter wasn't particularly confusing, some examples for filling out things like Due Diligence evaluations would have been highly appreciated.

Two questions I would ask Kuratko would be:
1) Which methods of venture valuation do you find to be the simplest? Hardest? Why? Are some better for other types of businesses than others?
2) Are stocks worth it? Where can one get more information on investing in stocks?

As stated in previous posts, I do not have the same level of education in the field of economics and entrepreneurship as Kuratko and thus it is difficult and would be rather unfair for me to say that he was "wrong" in some aspect. However, I can say that I sometimes greatly disagree with Kuratko's structuring of his textbook and what terms he chooses to expound upon (and why he doesn't expound on other terms that he brings up).