Travis, You are asking a flawed question. From what I've learned over the years, buyers don't buy "WISPs", they buy guaranteed mechanisms for either "proven revenue streams" and/or "potential expansion of revenue streams", and/or ability to sustain such revenues. A seller obviously wants to prove the second, to maximize their sale price.
I have seen all to often, where a WISP can't successfully sell their WISP, and it ends up getting shut down, or sold for less than the liquidation value of the hardware installed, as little as 10% of the equipemnt's new purchase cost. And I've seen a few cases where offers have come in to WISPs, as high as 6X annual revenues. The golden questions to ask are.... Is the business sellable? Is it maintainable by a third party, as is? Is it self sustaining already, from a profitabilty point, if it were taken over? The sell price of a business is not aways based on its value to the buyer, but also by the cost to operate (burn rate) of the original owner, and their desperateness to get out of the business. To answer your question, you have to first define specifics about the situation, and wether the seller is in the position to get a fair offer. If one assumes both the buyer's and seller's company are equal, and successful businesses, then one can make a generalized starting point for market sell cost. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:18 PM Subject: [WISPA] current market > Hi, > > I know there is no exact number for the buy/sell of a WISP... however, > there is usually a starting point... and it seems to fluctuate as the > market changes. So, what is the current starting point for the purchase > of a small WISP? 6x monthly revenue? 9x? 12x? > > thanks, > > Travis > Microserv > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
