How Much Is Your Business Worth? 10 Variables that Impact Business Valuation
For me, it was the excitement that came with forging my own destiny and being my own boss, pursuing my passion, and ultimately, profiting from my hard work and a unique business model. Fortunately, my...
View ArticleHow to Make Sure You Won’t Miss A Good Opportunity For Selling Your Business
Investors with capital are always looking for investment opportunities, even when there are market distortions like, for example, the current Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, business owners...
View ArticleMy Eleven-Week Experience Running a Business as Interim President....
I stepped into a new role on March 27th of this year as the interim president of the company I sold in 2017. Semi-Retirement was on hold for a period of time! Friday, June 14th was my last day. I was...
View ArticleHow to Start All Negotiations Like a Champ. You Must Know This One Thing
I was having an interesting conversation with a client recently. The client, let’s call him Zack, was about to enter into a rather important business negotiation worth potentially tens of thousands of...
View ArticleThe Rest of the Story, Jeff Wiener Background
Jeff Wiener – Background I started my third company in 1991 at the age of 23. That’s the company I would go on to run for 27 years. It wasn’t always easy. In fact, I spent the first several months...
View ArticleHow Do You Know When to Sell Your Business? It’s Not All About the Money
You can listen to this episode on my podcast here: I sold my business in October 2017. It took the better part of a year to figure out what exactly I wanted to do with my time, and even now, I’m...
View ArticleHow Much Does it Cost to Sell Your Business?
As an entrepreneur, selling your business is one of the major life decisions you’re going to make. It’s also probably one of the more expensive decisions. I came to the decision to sell my business,...
View ArticleHow Much Is Your Business Worth? 10 Variables that Impact Business Valuation
For me, it was the excitement that comes with forging my own destiny and being my own boss, pursuing my passion, and ultimately, profiting from my hard work and a unique business model. Fortunately, my...
View ArticleLife After Selling Your Business. The Good, The Bad, and The OMG, What Did I...
And just like that, with one final signature, I changed the course of my life. I didn’t come to the decision to sell my company lightly, but rather, it was a decision I made in January of 2017 when I...
View ArticleHow to Expand Your Business Through Acquisition and Make a Killing
What I am about to explain is something I wish I had known much sooner in my business career. I had my aha moment in 2017, by which time it was too late for me to take advantage of what I had just...
View ArticleMy Journey Post Business Sale as I Sail Into a New Harbour. The Next Stage,...
And just like that, with one final signature, I changed the course of my life. I didn’t come to the decision to sell my company lightly, but rather, it was a decision I made in January of 2017 when I...
View ArticleWhat Are BATNA And WATNA And How Do You Invent Options for Mutual Gain to Win...
Before I dive into what are BATNA and WATNA (two very strange sounding acronyms), and how you invent options for mutual gain, I want to illustrate by explaining that I was having an interesting...
View ArticleThe Most Surprising Things Business Owners Don’t Know About Selling Their...
This guest post is written by the Sampford Advisors. Sampford Advisors is a boutique investment bank exclusively focused on mid-market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for technology, media, and...
View ArticleHow to Make Sure You Won’t Miss A Good Opportunity For Selling Your Business
Investors with capital are always looking for investment opportunities, even when there are market distortions like, for example, the current Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, business owners...
View ArticleNegotiation Strategies and the Importance of Negotiations for Your Business
In 2017, just prior to the sale of my business, I recognized my business’s valuation would be dependent on multiple factors, most of which were the current and prior year’s EBITDA numbers. I also...
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