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Buying a business
Four Questions to Ask Yourself Before Purchasing a BusinessFour honest questions about the work, your plan, the financials and hidden risks that every buyer should answer before signing.
Buying a business
Take These Steps Before Buying a BusinessThe legal, tax and benefit-plan documents a buyer should review before buying a business, and who should review each one.
Selling a business
Why You Should Address Your Company’s Weaknesses Head OnHow to find your company's weak spots before a buyer does, and whether to fix, reduce or disclose each one.
Selling a business
Getting the Most out of a Partnership AgreementWhat a partnership agreement must settle, from money and authority to buyouts and a sale, so co-owners avoid disputes and exit cleanly.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality When Selling Any Business: Where Each Industry Is ExposedWhere a leak hurts first in home services, manufacturing, distribution and business services, and what to protect hardest in each.
Exit planning
3 Tips for Mapping out An Easy Retirement TransitionThree steps that make your company easier to hand over when you retire, and more valuable to the buyer who takes it on.
Firm news
MDR & Associates closes Nova Magnetics in Garland, TXJune 30, 2023 Nova Magnetics, a 45 year old electrical component manufacturer has been acquired by Electro Technik Industries, Inc. The CEO of…
Firm news
MDR & Associates has hired Todd Hutchinson as VP of Exit StrategyApril 15, 2023 MDR & Associates has hired Todd Hutchinson as VP of Exit Strategy to assist Founder & CEO, Michael Rubin with both potential sellers…
Exit planning
What is the Best Time to Sell Your Company?The best time to sell is when your company, your own readiness and the market line up. How to tell, and the signs you are waiting too long.
Selling a business
Why is Employee Satisfaction So Important?Why employee satisfaction drives service quality, retention and the price a buyer will pay, and practical ways to raise it.
Selling a business
What Serious Buyers Look ForHow serious buyers adjust your numbers for trimmed spending, stale inventory, low pay and old equipment, and why cash flow after debt matters.
Choosing an advisor
The Benefits of an Advisory CouncilWhat an advisory council is, how it differs from a board, whom to recruit, how to run it, and why it can make a company worth more to a buyer.