Is it time for you to sell your business, or at least think about it? Well, it all depends. If you know you don’t want to be running your company 5 or 6 or 8 years from now, and you know your family won’t be taking it over, and you know you don’t want to sell it for...
We’ve been writing in this column and in our newsletters for a couple years now about the upcoming reversal of fortunes for business owners wanting to sell their companies in the next few years. We wrote about the changes in valuations that will come when many...
Today the WSJ published an article (10/15/2015 p B4) that surprised no one at our office, but apparently was news to the Journal reporter. Among the quotable quotes: “Some baby boomers are having a tough time letting go.” Ya think? “…younger...
In any sizable transaction involving the sale of a business, the serious buyers will likely be interested in buying a stream of future earnings. And since future earnings are to a large degree influenced by past earnings. That is to say if there is some relationship...
If you’ve followed my writing this year, you know I’m concerned about the huge upcoming transition of privately owned businesses, and particularly those that will not involve a generational transfer, i.e., they will be sold if the owner plans properly, or...
