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Selling a Business: Questions to Ask First 28 August 2023: Selling a Business: Questions to Ask First If you’re a business owner, do you realize that your business is eventually going to be sold? Many of you are familiar with our tagline, “Every Business that Doesn’t Fail will be Sold;
Selling a Business: Seller Mistakes 21 August 2023: Selling a Business: Seller Mistakes Why don’t some businesses sell? Well, aside from the most obvious – price expectation – there are dozens of reasons, many of which we’ve encountered over our more than two decades in the business brokering trenches and
Buying a Restaurant: Some Numbers 14 July 2023: Buying a Restaurant: Some Numbers Restaurants are among the most often sold businesses in North America. So-called “serial restauranteurs” – individuals or couples who start up restaurants to quickly flip them – are plentiful. Many of these restauranteurs have a data base
Selling a Business to Employees: Part 2 7 July 2023: Selling a Business to Employees: Part 2 Last week’s post – Part 1 of selling a business to its employees – was about using government-sanctioned programs such as ESOPs and EOTs. Though not exclusively for larger business, it’s rare that
Selling a Business to Employees: Part 1 31 July 2023: Selling a Business to Employees: Part 1 Selling a business to its employees can be a very advantageous method of transferring ownership, especially if the seller is concerned about how their business is treated in the future. Recall last week’s
Selling a Business: No Regrets? 24 July 2023: Selling a Business: No Regrets? A couple of months ago I read an article by Ben Guttman, one of the co-founders in 2011 of a digital marketing company. The story he told was generally about starting and growing the business, and reaching
Starting vs Buying a Business 17 July 2023: Starting vs Buying a Business We consult with business owners all the time and have been doing so for more than 20 years. But we also advise hopeful entrepreneurs and “wannabes”. In this hopeful and wannabe category, we found that people want
Buying a Business: Legal Due Diligence 10 July 2023: Buy a Business: Legal Due Diligence “Buying a business requires knowing what you’re buying.” That would seem to be an exercise in stating the obvious but our more than 20 years of experience in advising business buyers and sellers suggests that
Selling a Business: The Tax Man Wants More! 3 July 2023: Selling a Business: The Tax Man Wants More! Selling a business – even a small one – has always involved some level of tax liability. Wise business owners and those with knowledgeable advisors generally prepare in advance by not
Selling a Business: Head Winds or Tail Winds? 26 June 2023: Selling a Business: Head Winds or Tail Winds? We’re constantly asked about how certain economic, financial or demographic issues are impacting the market for selling businesses. Some of these questions come from business owners seriously considering selling while others
