April 15, 2019
Selling a Business: Are Millennials Buying?
Share This: Selling a Business: The Millennials Market Are Millennials buying business? Do they have the chops? We hear a lot about Millennials starting internet and technology businesses but few of them will be the unicorns that Wall Street dreams of. But are they buying existing business? Last week’s post
April 7, 2019
Selling Your Business? The Kids Don’t Want It!
Share This: Selling a Business: Can You Keep it in the Family? What seems like a lifetime ago, The Who did a song called “The Kids Are Alright”. (You can see the original cheesy music video here. And check out the spectators on the lake in the background!) Many business
March 31, 2019
The Business Brokerage Market
Share This: The Coming Business Brokerage Market Over the past two years, I’ve been writing about how active the business brokerage market has been and how it is expected to become even more frothy. Most of my more recent posts on the subject have been to wax philosophical about the
March 25, 2019
Preparing for – rather than starting – the sale
Share This: Preparing for – Rather than Starting – the Sale “Every business that does not fail will eventually change hands.” That is a mantra that we’ve used in our offices and in our marketing for many years. Some businesses will “change hands” in the manner of
March 18, 2019
Asset Purchase or Stock Purchase
Share This: Buying Assets versus Buying Stock A business broker needs to know – and explain to his or her client – that there are two ways to buy an ongoing business. The transition can be structured as an asset purchase or as a stock purchase – and each
March 11, 2019
Putting a price – as opposed to a value – on a business
Share This: Putting a Price on a Business For a business broker or business owner, putting a price on a business versus putting a value on that business are two different things – and each will have a different impact on the price ultimately paid by a buyer when
March 3, 2019
Selling Your Business? Get Educated First!
Share This: Selling Your Business; Get Educated! Selling your business is an exercise fraught with uncertainty and misinformation. If you want to get the most value for your business when you sell, you must educate yourself about what it will take in terms of knowledge, talent, value and time.
February 25, 2019
Business Valuations and “Fake News”
Share This: Business Valuations and “Fake News” “Fake news”, while not a new phenomenon, gained currency as a catch phase during the United States’ 2016 presidential election campaign. It has since become an oft-repeated charge often leveled by conservatives against liberal and progressive news outlets. But fake news is
February 18, 2019
Sell a Family Business
Share This: Sell a Family Business: Are the Kids an Option? Many business owners think they’ll be able to pass their business on to their kids. Good idea? Maybe. But maybe not. I’ve written about this before – first here and again here – describing some of the pitfalls
February 10, 2019
Sell a business FOR equity
Share This: Sell a Business for Equity. Huh?!? Sell a business FOR equity?!? As the star of an old sitcom would say, Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis? When you sell a business, you’re supposed to SELL the equity, right? Well, as it happens, many M&A transactions, particularly in the Middle
