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Preparing to Sell a Business – Is there a Growth Trajectory?
To prep for a sale, owners need to have a foundation built and progress underway to achieve reliable and sustainable growth. When a potential buyer approaches a target company for sale, their background and career experiences greatly impact how they view growth...
Preparing to Sell a Business – Eliminate Risks
We ask our clients early on if they would buy a business where the staff is putting out fires day-in and day-out. The answer is resoundingly NO! Its hard to sell a home that is prone to wildfires, and its just as difficult to sell a business that could be burned to...
Preparing to Sell a Business – Clean up Financials and Factor in Add-Backs
Demonstrating profitability each year is critical to attracting potential buyers. Clean financials are a requirement for any interested party to measure and evaluate what a quality business is worth. To do this, financial records must be accurate, consistent, and...
It Pays to Plan – Understanding The Transaction Process & Timeline
In an ideal world, business owners begin the exit planning process 3 to 5 years from their desired sale date and work with key advisors (wealth advisors, CPAs, legal counsel, etc.) to build out a plan that aligns to the owner's goals. This ranges from hitting a...
Headwinds or Tail Winds Facing Lower Middle Market M&A – IBBA 2022 Recap
Last week over 700 professionals in the main street and lower middle market M&A community met in Denver to share best practices, pandemic battle scars, and predictions for M&A activity for the remainder of 2022 and into 2023. The consensus among conference...
Great Resignation to Great Retirement – Exit Planning Basics for Business Sellers
One thing is certain as we exit the pandemic: there has rarely been a better time for business owners to sell and get top dollar for their business. The past two years have seen a sea-change in most industries, and the move to remote work (and the current move back to...
COVID’s Impact on Small & Mid-Size Business Deal Flow: What’s Hot & What’s Not
On the roller coaster that has been the U.S. economy during the past two years, one of the top questions we get from business owners is “what kind of businesses are selling?” The unfortunate short answer - it depends! The clearest answer we have on what is moving are...
How the Great Resignation is Creating New Opportunities for Buy and Sell Side M&A
Acquisition Entrepreneurship in a Post Pandemic World - It seems the phrase is everywhere: the Great Resignation. It’s also been called the Great Reshuffling. The Great Retirement. Pundits everywhere have been struggling to explain and rationalize the mass exodus from...
New Leadership for Exit Equity as Kara Gibson Brzytwa Takes the Helm
Brzytwa will be the first woman to guide firm, amid a time of unprecedented opportunity for business exit planning SEATTLE, WA - Exit Equity LLC is pleased to announce Kara Gibson Brzytwa has been named the new Owner, Principal and Managing Broker. She brings more...
Choosing A Broker
Choosing A Broker Find the Best Broker | Intermediary to Help you Sell your BusinessLike many professional business services, hiring a broker is a bit dauting. You go online to search, and there in front of you is a list of brokers that all promise the same thing:...