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...
Entrepreneurs often start companies that they know will need more capital than they can provide personally. So they at some point go looking for investors, and these days there are lots of individuals and investment funds willing to listen and consider buying a...
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’s (11/23/2015) Wall Street Journal contains an article written by an ethics professor discussing the ethical challenges faced by the folks who launch and run startups. Complete with interviews with a panel of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the...
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...
