A Collection Of The Internet's Top Resources For Anyone Considering Selling Their Business
Why you should NOT use escrow.com (or ANY escrow company) when selling a decent sized online business. I speak from a British context, but most of this will probably apply to you wherever you...
In the words of Sam Levinson, “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” When it comes to selling businesses the biggest mistakes...
An article by Bassem Mansour, of Resilience Capital Partners in the US, arguing that negotiated deals ie. where there’s no auction process to drive up the price, have an undeserved bad rep. He argues...
US News hailed 2018 as a record-breaking year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as companies around the world announced deals worth a total of $3.3 trillion in just the first three quarters of...
When selling a business, your main selling point may be the potential of the business, or some software or other asset you’ve built, it may be the reputation of the business or it may...
Raising investment money from Angels or VC’s is a lot different to finding a buyer for an existing business. Existing businesses are often valued on the profits they are generating. But how do you...
Irish M&A activity jumped to a 370% increase in 2018 over the previous year posting 163 transactions worth a total of €76 billion according to Mergermarket. 2017, by contrast, saw 151 deals valued at...
But not to worry, it’s only for deals of $84 million and above. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, parties to M&A deals need to get two approvals – from the FTC...
Or why nobody is going to be buying any businesses in 2019. Here’s one pessimistic outlook for M&A in the coming year. Not a view I agree with, but a well argued one, nonetheless....
Gary Occhiogrosso writes about how to get the best price when selling a restaurant. It’s 2019 and after years of hard work you’ve now decided to sell your restaurant, perhaps to open a different...
Today’s awful post of the month goes to BusinessesForSale.com who’ve posted about How To Find The Right Business Broker To Sell Your Business. It’s riddled with mistakes, bad information, biased information (biased towards the...
A short but useful video from Josh Horn, a US based company valuer. He talks about how the size of the owner compensation influences the value of the business. In short, a high owner...
12 key lessons about tech M&A – from Cisco John Chambers, Chairman Emeritus of Cisco, has done over acquisitions in his time and shares some tips – 12 lessons: 1. M&As Are A Vaccine...
According to BizBuySell, an online platform for the sale of businesses, Q3 shows small businesses selling at the highest prices ever with a median price of $249,000, up 10.7% from a similar period in...
EBITDA or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation is widely used in the valuation of businesses. Where the value of a business is quoted in terms of a multiple of earnings the earnings...
Garden centres tend to be family run businesses, and as with many family run businesses today it’s seldom the case that the next generation take on the mantle and continue in the family trade....
Patrick Galleher of merchant bank Boxwood Partners provides advice on the qualities that appeal to buyers of businesses. In summary: 1. A Reasonable And Fair Asking Price 2. A Good Reputation 3. A Company...
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