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  • Before You Sell Your Heavy Equipment Business

     The biggest mistake business owners make is waiting too long to sell. Have you ever heard, “I sold my business to early?” Compare that with the number of times you've heard somebody say, “I should have sold my business two years ago.More

  • Looking to Sell Your Information Technology Company - Avoid Some Common Mistakes

     Selling your information technology business is the most important transaction you will ever make. Mistakes in this process can greatly erode your transaction proceeds. Do not spend twenty years of your toil and skill building your business like a pro only to exit like an amateur.More

  • Selecting a Business Broker - Look Out for these Red Flags

     Last week I got a call from a business owner who had decided to sell his business. He and his partners were beginning the beauty contest phase of selecting a firm to represent them in the sale. His partners had begun discussions with a merger and acquisition advisory firm.More

  • Selling Your Business - The Number One Value Driver

     When helping our clients sell their businesses, we get to witness buyer behavior first hand. The most important behavior is their economic vote – how much they are willing to pay for a business. Many factors go into their assessment of value, but a contractually recurring revenue stream is consistently the number one value driver.More

  • Business Sellers - Avoid These Ten Mistakes

     Selling your business is the most important business transaction you will ever make. Mistakes in this process can greatly erode your transaction proceeds. Do not spend twenty years of your toil and skill building your business like a pro only to exit like an amateur.More

  • The Ten Commandments of Selling My Business

     1. Thou shall not wait too long. Have you ever heard, “I sold my business to early?” Compare that with the number of times you’ve heard somebody say, “I should have sold my business two years ago.More

  • How to Sell Your Own Business

     Not Recommended for Companies with Sales Greater than $1 MillionPURPOSE: To provide a quick guide to business owners that desire to sell their business but do not want a significant portion of the transaction value to go to a business broker or M&A intermediary.1. Have an idea what your company is worth. The most common rule of thumb is that buyers usually pay a multiple of EBITDA.More

  • Passing Your Family Business to the Next Generation - Succession Planning

     As Penn State professor William Rothwell ominously points out in the forward to Exit Right: A Guided Tour of Succession Planning for Families in Business Together, more than 40% of the people who run the closely held operations that comprise 80% of the North American economy will retire by 2007. It makes me wonder, what is going to happen to all of those businesses? Although it is a noble gesture, passing a business down to the next generation is more often than not, unsuccessful.More

  • Build Versus Buy - A Merger and Acquisition Strategy for Information Technology Companies

     As a Merger and Acquisition advisor, we regularly dialogue with the top executives in the information technology industry. We have to chuckle when we reach a decision maker with a large IT company and he says, "We have a corporate policy that we do not buy companies." Does this guy read the industry publications?More

  • Merger and Acquisition - A Strategy for Corporate Growth

     Two companies that are recognized as among the best at making successful acquisitions are General Electric and Cisco Systems. These companies have been star performers in growing shareholder value. The core principal that runs through almost every acquisition is integration.More