Why You Can’t Sell Your Business
A great post by a Private Equity Group exposing the reasons why businesses that go to them don’t get acquired – 997 out of every 1,000 businesses are not investable. And here are some...
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How To Get Escrow Services For Free When Selling An Online 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...
Top 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Selling A Business
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...
Why Do People Keep Asking For Numbers? What If You Just Have Assets Or Intellectual Property?
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...
Is It Time To Ditch EBITDA In Business Valuations?
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...
Private Equity Firms Are Currently Flush With Cash
According to MoneyWeek, private equity firms have been raising capital at the fastest rate than they’ve managed in over a decade and that they are currently flush with cash and desperately looking for the...
An Inside Look Into A VC Negotiation
TechCrunch sheds some light on how a VC deal is negotiated. The terms that come up during the discussion and the various valuation related issues that arise are often a great mystery to many...
Acquisition: What A Lender Likes To See When Financing A Deal
The SBA in the USA finances many business acquisitions deals and, as business loan experts, have put together some tips on what lenders like to see when financing a buyout. They include: Trend –...
The Full Low Down On Business Broker & M&A Adviser Fees & Charges
How much would a professional charge to sell your business? The world’s largest survey on fees and fee structures of business brokers, M&A advisors and investment banks has been assembled by Divestopedia and is...
Issuing SEIS & EIS shares – 4 Key Considerations
You may have obtained SEIS / EIS pre-approval from HMRC, but you need to be careful about correctly issuing the SEIS and EIS shares. Vasiliki Carson of Sapphire Capital explains the four key considerations...
Should You Invest In Bitcoin To Give You More Purchasing Power?
Given the increase in interest in crytocurrencies, and the rise in ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) to raise startup funds, we thought it was time for an article on Bitcoin. Economists were rather sceptical when...
Evaluating Private Equity Firms Before Doing Business With Them
How do you know which private equity firm will be the best partner for your business? Rond Capital posts to provide some advice. Unfortunately for entrepreneurs, there is no “Yelp for private equity firms.”...
What Are Addbacks And How Do They Affect Valuation?
Founders Investment Bank in Birmingham, Alabama, posts today about “addbacks”, the items and amounts that were previously charged to the Profit & Loss account but which can be added back to boost a company’s...
Selling A Business – Should You Sell Assets Or Sell Shares?
It is imperative that any business owner taking his/her business to market becomes familiar with the two ways to structure a business sale – the sale of shares & the sale of assets. Make...
How to Sell Your Business–and Keep It, Too
Inc posts an interesting article with some real life examples and case studies of founders who sold their business but got to keep it too. When I posted an article along those lines some...
16 Rookie Errors Founders Make Pitching To VCs
And in true Buzzfeed style … I’m not so sure about #3. 🙂 #3 advises founders to not take a consultant along to the pitch. I can see the logic from the VCs point...
