Joe Pulizzi has been building — and selling — content marketing businesses since 2007. His most recent sale of The Tilt and CEX marks his third, and fastest, deal.
Lindsay Pinchuk had 130,000 email subscribers for her business, Bump Club & Beyond. But she hadn’t seriously considered selling until a buyer came knocking.
Will a buyer be impressed with your business’s clear, concise financials, or is your accounting a disorganized mess? Follow our step-by-step checklist to make sure your books are sale-ready.
When you sell your business, you want a lawyer who can advocate for you. In this conversation with M&A lawyer Andrew Ritter, we talk about when sellers should bring a lawyer into the sale process, how to think about an LOI, and more.
If you’re not clear about M&A lingo, you’ve come to the right place. This glossary highlights the terms you’ll want to understand when you go to sell your business.
When funding dries up, an acquihire can be a good option. That approach worked for this founder, who sold her marketplace for freelancers to a buyer in her network.
Hayley Sperling and Sam Hoisington built the local Madison, Wisconsin newsletter they wanted to read — and partnered with a national news brand that eventually acquired them.
Rebekah Bastian, co-founder of the online community OwnTrail, felt like she was just getting started — but she ran out of cash, forcing her into an abrupt exit.
