It was nearly 20 years ago when I first approached this topic, something just about every consultant on the planet has an opinion about. While we’ve helped a fair number of privately owned companies get sold, I’m not here to tell you if or when you should...
A ShareVault blog post today quoted a statistic that supports what we’ve been saying about the abundance of money looking for good companies to buy. Their quote: “According to data provider Preqin, private-equity funds currently have over $1.46 trillion in...
I’ve been writing to business owners for some time about the coming exit tsunami of baby boomers from their businesses, and some owner/operators nod and acknowledge it sounds like something they really should pay attention to – one of these days. Well, to...
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...
