I’m pleased to finally be able to share with you the great interview I did last year with Exit Strategist Kerri Salls on her podcast Exit This Way on the UR Business Network. While we share many of the same concerns…
We’re starting off the new year with a “best of” recap of 2013. This video was released almost exactly a year ago and has continued to gain views throughout the year. When selling your business, understanding the difference between the…
One of the most popular posts on this blog continues to be this one talking about the factors that go into selling a business for a premium price. Of course, every business owner wants to sell their business for the…
I thought I’d kick off the new year by sharing Business Exit and Succession’s greatest hits from 2013. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing the videos and blog posts that seemed to resonate the most with you from…
I recently described how over-dependence on the role of the owner within the business can have a negative impact on the amount a business may bring at sale or even its salability in general. Today, I’d like to share a…
Yes We Know You’re Important… But Do You Want To Be So Important You Decrease The Value of Your Business? It is one of the insidious aspects of entrepreneurship. You can’t be successful building a business up from scratch unless…
A strategic partner of mine, Shane Barber of B.V. Alan, Inc., has a saying. It goes “All organizations are perfectly organized to get the results that they are currently generating.” That means that if you are not getting the results…
Resistance to Change – A Universal Personal Quality Change is not something very many people embrace. In fact, it seems that many will flee change as if it were the plague! To prepare a company to be in the best…
This month we are exploring the effect of time on the process of selling your business or business succession. In particular we are discussing various reasons why it is ultra-important to start this process as early as possible and give yourself…
Time is the irreplaceable asset. Money can be gained, lost and regained. But time, once it has past, is gone forever. I wrote about this earlier this year in the context of how owners go about determining what will give them a…