I had dinner with a group of friends this week, one of whom is a CEO looking to plan an exit from the consulting firm he built over the last 25 years. Since this group occasionally discusses business issues, we talked about the options and issues our friend will face...
Exiting your business is a lot like selling a very good used car (or the home you’ve lived in for 25 years). A lot can look good on the outside, but a lot can go wrong if the buyer takes a good look at the inside. That’s why you want to start early, get a skilled...
Few decisions in life will be more important to a business owner than the ones they make while planning the exit from their business, especially if they spent 5, 10 or 20 years building it. And no matter the size of the business, or its niche, its degree of success or...
If you’re considering selling your business in the near future, you may have taken notice of the recent news that interest rates are about to start going up, perhaps 3 or 4 times this year alone, after being near zero for several years. You may have asked yourself –...
For young entrepreneurs who launched their companies in the past 5-10 years, grew them through intense energy and hard work, and then rode them out through a punishing pandemic, more than a few of them will be saying today “I don’t ever want to go through that again!...
