How much is my company's data worth?
Polyshares deals typically land between $100K and $2M paid to the company. Where a specific record falls in that range depends on the depth of operating history, how much reasoning is visible in it, and whether the company can grant clean rights.
In depth
The first instinct is to measure the asset in terabytes, but buyers do not price it that way. What we are paying for is captured judgment. Ten years of one team working through hard problems in writing is a denser asset than a far larger archive of finished documents, because the finished documents carry conclusions with the reasoning removed. A company with modest headcount and a long, well kept operating record can price above a much larger business that threw its working history away.
Several things move the number up. Length of continuous operating history, because a record that spans years shows how judgment changed as conditions did. Visible disagreement and correction, because a record of people being wrong and then getting it right cannot be manufactured. A specialized domain, because material from a trade with few written records is scarce in a way general business correspondence is not. And clean rights, because provenance that does not have to be litigated is worth paying up for.
A few things cap it or kill it outright. A short operating history is one, below which the record is too thin to be interesting at any price. Records the company holds but does not own are another, since material governed by a client master agreement belongs to the client regardless of value. Personal information woven through the record in a way that cannot be cleanly stripped is a third, and so is material that is already public, published, scraped, or widely syndicated.
The licensing figures that circulate in the press come from large publishers licensing catalogs, a different asset in a different market, and they are the wrong reference point for an operating business. The only way to get a real number is to have a buyer look at the record, which Polyshares does before it quotes. The buyer decides the number after that review, and the figure quoted is the figure the company receives, with nothing taken out of it.
Related questions
How much does Polyshares pay?
Deals typically land between $100K and $2M, and run higher for large or long records. Depth of operating history and how much visible reasoning the record contains move the number far more than raw volume does.
Which companies qualify?
Any business with real operating history. Venture backed, middle market, or founder owned. The length and texture of the record matter more than headcount or revenue.
What does it cost the company?
Nothing. There is no fee and no commission, because we are not working on your behalf. We are buying. Money moves in one direction, from us to you.
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