owner-dependent business
If You Stepped Away for a Month, Who Would Keep Your Business Running?
A simple test for owners of service businesses: find where the company depends on you, and five practical steps to build one that runs without you.
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business exit strategy, exit options for business owners
Your exit options, side by side
Family, management, an outside buyer, or closing the doors. A plain comparison of the four ways owners leave their business.
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succession planning
The succession question most owners put off, and what waiting costs
Most owners plan their exit later than they should. Here's why succession planning pays off years before you sell, and where to start.
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Phase 05 - Succession & Exit
Growth is half your exit value. But only the growth that transfers.
Revenue growth accounts for over half of exit value in recent studies. What that means for owners, and why only growth that transfers gets paid for.
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Market Guides, Chicago Market
The Chicago Acquisition Market
What the Chicago acquisition market actually looks like: the counted numbers, the succession wave, where buyers crowd, and where the quiet companies are.
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Phase 05 - Succession & Exit
Sell and stay: money off the table without walking away
You do not have to choose between keeping everything and walking away. How owners take money off the table while staying in the business they built.
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