Do founders get anything when they sell the business for little more than they raised? Here’s what those cases typically look like for founders and investors.
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.
Most entrepreneurs want to minimize the tax burden when you sell your company. So we talked with an expert, Matt Camrud of Brighton Jones, about how entrepreneurs should approach financial planning ahead of your sale.
Think you might want to sell your business one day? Maybe you already have an offer? These books about how to sell a business will help you navigate the acquisition process.
Here’s how to calculate SDE, or seller’s discretionary earnings, plus how one seller made changes in his business to increase SDE and subsequently, his company’s valuation.
