You may be eager to sell your business, and happy to have an acquirer at your doorstep, but are you prepared for what happens when a sophisticated acquirer starts looking “under the hood” of your business? Most business owners are…

Many owners of privately held businesses have 70% of 90% of their personal net worth tied up in – or pledged as personal guarantees for – their business, but don’t have a clear idea of what steps they can take…

This article first appeared in Forbes Magazine in 2019. To hear business owners tell it, a top goal of selling or transferring their business is to get the full value for it so they can fund retirement. Most also understand…

Rob Slee, Author of Time Really Is Money   I grew up in a family that owned and operated businesses. My dad was a serial entrepreneur, with all of the good and bad that such a title bestows. Behaving as a…

  In their book, The $10 Trillion Opportunity, Richard Jackim and Peter Christman note that: “…Within the next 20 years, more than 90 million people in the US and Canada will be retiring.  These are the “baby boomers,” the generation…

By: Heather Endresen, Live Oak Bank No generation has had the impact on small business creation that the baby boomers have had over the past 50 years. As these baby boomers look to retire, a new model of entrepreneurship is…

  Jim Afinowich, Guest Author   The sale of your business is potentially the most important decision you’ll ever make. If you’re like many business owners, you may have 75% or more of your net worth tied up in your…

By Enrique Quemada, Chairman of ONEtoONE Corporate Finance   Although we are in a period of turbulence and paralysis caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the M&A world will be revived in a few months and will do so vigorously. Below,…

Series 3 Selling a business is something that most business owners will only attempt once in their career.  With an estimated 70% – 90% of their total net worth tied up in their business, they can’t afford to make a…