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Sell Your Startup with a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor

The Startup Magazine

In many cases, your advisor will identify key employees and create a business plan to help you find a buyer and negotiate the best price possible. However, you should be aware that some potential buyers may back out of the deal during due diligence. Identifying key employees. Preparing for the sale.

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5 Risks Of Buying A Business And Profiting Off The Opportunities They Create

YoungUpstarts

They make all the sales. The employees depend on their expertise and training. The opportunity: Use this as a negotiating point when bargaining for the deal. If the business IS the business owner, then that person needs to be part of the deal. The diligence: Interview customers, vendors, and employees.

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5 Things To Consider Before Selling To A Private Equity Firm

YoungUpstarts

After researching and evaluating further, you’ll select someone to represent you in the sale of your company. They will help you get the business ready for sale by creating marketing material, and then once ready, the process will begin. In today’s world, it’s fairly common to run a limited sale process.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion. They only had 13 employees!

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10 things I wish I knew when I sold my businesses

Jeff Hilimire

When selling my first company, we worked so hard on the process of the sale that we inadvertently slacked off on business development (i.e. We felt the pain of that a few months after we closed the sale. Think past the sale itself. Be as open as you can when communicating with your employees. getting new clients).

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The audio destination for business professionals host Jason Bay, dives in with leading sales experts and top performing reps to share actionable tips and strategies to help you land more meetings with your ideal clients. The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. 09:23): Sure. So, alright.

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Selling Your Business: An Interview with Louis Crosier

Growthink Blog

During the interview, Louis made numerous key points regarding things you need to be doing while you are starting, growing, and selling your business, and then what you need to do post-sale. While you can listen to the interview yourself here , two of my favorite points were as follows: -1- Your choice of corporate structure (e.g.,