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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.
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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.
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Pre-Exit Consulting ServicesWhat pre-exit consulting fixes in the 12 to 24 months before a sale, which factors raise or lower value, and how the work is priced.
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How to Transfer Your Business to a Family MemberThe steps for passing a company to a relative: readiness, independent valuation, sale or gift, financing and the written agreement.
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Preparing for Your Eventual RetirementA staged plan for the years before you retire: step back from daily work, fix what a buyer would find, and get your own finances ready.
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What You Need to Know About Selling a Family Business With Several OwnersWhy family companies with several owners stall in a sale, and how to agree on price, terms and one voice before buyers arrive.
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How to Get Ready to Sell Your BusinessThe five decisions to make before you sell: your goals, your role in the sale, steady operations, confidentiality and partner agreement.
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How to Sell and Successfully Launch Your RetirementHow to plan the sale and the retirement together: the number you need to net, a company that runs without you and a life after closing.
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Important Points for Selling to a Family MemberHow a family sale compares with an outside sale, how to stay fair to other heirs, and which terms matter besides the price.
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Preparing to Sell to Private Equity: Advice From the Buyer's SideWhat private equity buyers wish owners had done before selling: earlier preparation, the right deal attorney and a plan to avoid deal fatigue.
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The Retirement Wave and Ownership Transition: What It Means for SellersWhy many founders retiring at once changes the market for sellers, the gaps that leave owners unprepared, and how to close them.
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Dealing With an Economic Downturn: Why Planning and Communication Are KeyHow to plan and communicate through an economic shock so the business stays healthy and a future buyer sees a company that handled it well.