Deal Breakers – What Causes You To Lose The Investor?
Jason Shuman, a VC at Corigin Ventures has put together a great list of the kind of offers, attributes, financial flaws and other triggers that cause a founder to not get the funding he...
Jason Shuman, a VC at Corigin Ventures has put together a great list of the kind of offers, attributes, financial flaws and other triggers that cause a founder to not get the funding he...
Jacob Orosz from Morgan and Westfield asks an interesting question and goes on to explain just why brokers provide free valuations of businesses and why these presents a danger to the business owner. The...
Our sister site has published a list of all the major locations online where businesses are listed for sale. While Businesses For Sale, RightBiz and Daltons Business are well known names in the UK...
Boutiques are small specialist M&A firms or banks with a focus on a specific region / sector. They tend to be small (few dozen to a few hundred employees) … and they have been...
Jacob Orosz of Morgan & Westfield talks divestitures, or selling just a portion of your business. Selling is not an all or nothing option he suggests and goes on to describe how partial sales are...
An excellent piece from Erica Drake about the six things you need to know when raising capital. Erica takes you through finding the investors’ sweet spot, knowing what type of finance you need, and...
Kevin Bogenreif of Texas Capital Bank discusses what mid-market companies do to realize the full value of their businesses when selling and what other companies can do to achieve the type of multiples typically...
Business valuation expert, Chris Mercer, takes a look at Purchase Sale Agreements – the contract between the buyer and seller of a business. The three main types are 1) the Cross-purchase agreement that occurs...
In a recent survey conducted by PwC, it emerges that digitising is high on the agenda for private equity houses. They are converting from analogue to digital not only their internal processes but are...
Anthony Gold Solicitors posts about how to avoid incurring high abortive legal and accountancy costs when selling a business. They argue prior prepartion, due diligence on the buyer – from credit checks to asking...
Zach Dogar, a business broker, explains the different types of buyers, their motivations and what type of business each category of buyer is interested in. He discusses Private Equity Groups, the different kinds of...
Gary Rayberg, of ROIBusinessBrokers in Massachusetts, gives his advice on valuing homecare practices. He argues that homecare practices are in high demand, and that to achieve the highest value the owner needs to allow...
John Brown of the Business Enterprise Institute, an attorney and business exit planner, writes for Forbes on how family businesses can plan for transition. He lays out five main elements the first of which...
If you’re looking for jokes about missionaries, you’ve come to the right page. But there’s also some shrewd and sage advice from some of the most successful venture capital investors including Mark Cuban, John...
Some tips on getting the best price for your business … from Julian Caplin, corporate finance partner at RSM Ireland. Julian talks about the key value drivers as being – Sales & Sales growth...
“Realtors” is American for Business Brokers. With that translation done, here’s Divestopedia’s take on the difference in service when using an Investment Banker to handle the sale of your business vs using a...