A Collection Of The Internet's Top Resources For Anyone Considering Selling Their Business
Conducting a due diligence exercise prior to inviting investors in is widely accepted to help in preparing the company and management for the type of questions investors ask. MerrillCorp’s whitepaper on seller side DD...
Rob Goddard of Evolution CBS argues that it’s critical to have multiple buyers for your business, and to have them competing against each other. Given that buyers hold most of the cards, it’s important...
Quasi-Debt is explained today in an article by David Barnitt: Quasi debt, whose examples include mezzanine financing or subordinated debt, is defined as a category of debt that has some traits of equity either...
Brian Caldwell of Transworld Business Advisors posts an infographic with some hard hitting facts about buying /selling a business. See the infographic here. Extract: Buying a Business is Not for Everyone: Dreaming is commonplace...
Marv White provides five keys to increasing the price you get for your business. In this excellent article, he explains about transferability of the owner’s skills, the maintaining of good financial records, the reducing...
Business Zone discusses preparing your team for the process of selling the business. Do you even disclose to them that the business is for sale? And if you do, how best do you manage...
From the lack of proper pre-acquisition planning to over-optimistic projections on revenue synergies, there are often, in retrospect, clear reasons why the deal was always doomed to failure. This excellent piece from theMarketMoghul examines...
Zach Dogar, a business broker in the UK, looks at timing. Is there ever a good time to sell a business? Should the economy and market conditions guide the decision? Or the stage of...
An interesting post from Michael O’Donnell, a business intermediary, on why your broker doesn’t need to buy into your concept and into how fantastic your business is … if he is selling it. In...
Is it a lack of good buying opportunities? Not enough businesses of the right type coming to market? LiveMint says that the pace of funding is slowing down in an environment of sobering start-up...
If you are preparing to sell your business, your buyers will likely be members of the “buy now, pay later” generation. Generation X is the first demographic group to be raised in a culture...
Andy Kocemba puts together eight tips on maximising value when selling a business. 1. Maximize profitability and earnings: The number one component in business valuation is profitability. Whether looking for … 2. Ensure your...
Whether you’re looking to sell a business or invest in one, certain key financial ratios are used to analyse the quality and financial health of the firm, its liquidity, solvency or its ability to...
Looking to sell a Managed Service Provider? Channel E2E is holding a free webcast on Thursday, October 27, at 2pm ET/11am PT covering MSP Acquisitions: What Buyers Look for In Sellers. The registration page...
American mixed martial arts promotion company, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has hit the headlines again as it has new investors who’ve valued the business at $4 billion- a particularly noteworthy rise from its...
RBS forced solid, viable businesses to fail …so they could make money from exit fees. “Many business owners complained that unrealistically low valuations were used to claim they had breached their borrowing limits...
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