Preparation
Intrinsic Value per Share and the Roadmap to Measurable Value Creation
Companies need a roadmap to help them achieve measurable financial value creation. This article provides the various levers that company...
Podcast: Managing Family Dynamics in Business Succession Planning
Wealth brings complexity. In this podcast, Matthew Wesley, a family succession expert, shares his experiences in managing the dynamics of a...
How to Sell Your Company and the Alchemy of Finding Your Special Sauce
Before selling your company, know what your prospective buyers want and then create the special aspect of your company to meet their needs.
Podcast: How to Build a Sellable Business - An Interview With John Warrillow
John Warrillow, author of the best sellling book 'Built to Sell', provides his expert advice on how owners can build a valuable and...
The Exit Planning Institute Doesn't Want You to Exit
Economic Value is a great tool to ensure your private company can deliver you market rate or above returns. Sadly, it is not broadly...
The Sixth Ingredient to a Successful Exit - The Action Plan
The sixth and last ingredient to a successful exit from your business is to have an action plan. Don't let all your planning and...
Podcast: The Exit Planning Event of the Year
Divestopedia is proud to be a media sponsor for the Exit Planning Institute’s 2013 International Conference. Learn more about the event and...
The Fourth Ingredient to a Successful Exit - Exit Options
What exit options do you have when selling your business? In this article, we itemize the various exit options that an entrepreneur has to...
Podcast: A Serial Entrepreneur's Guide to Building and Selling a Business
Most business owners only sell a business once. Serial entrepreneurs are a different breed, though. They understand maximizing value and...
The Second Ingredient to a Successful Exit - Financial Needs
Once you know what your goals are in exit planning, it comes down to how much you will need. You need to perform a financial assessment to...
The First Ingredient to a Successful Exit: Defining Goals
You don't know where you'll end up, unless you plan where you're going. The most important ingredient in an exit process is the goal...
The Six Step Recipe to a Successful Exit
You only need to take six steps to exit your business, but do you know what they are? In this article, I summarize these steps so you can...
How Will You Find the Best Advisor to Sell Your Business?
Selling your business will probably be the single largest transaction that you will ever be involved in. Don't take chances with hiring the...
Podcast: 3 Things Any Owner Can Do Now to Prepare for an Exit
Learn exit planning strategies from the original exit planning coach, Peter Christman.
Podcast: Purposefully Planning the Exit from Your Business
Why should you start planning the exit from your business now? Well, it can help prepare you emotionally and financially to go from wealth...
Podcast: Interview with Warland Griffith, Preparing for the Sale of Your Business
In this Divestopedia Podcast, host Noah Rosenfarb, CPA continues his interviews with attorneys, M&A experts, accountants, valuators, exit...
Podcast: Interview with Bruce C. Rosetto, Entrepreneur-Turned-Counselor to Entrepreneurs
In this Divestopedia Exit Strategy Podcast, host Noah Rosenfarb, CPA interviews Bruce C. Rosetto, Esq., an entrepreneur-turned-counselor to...
The 10 Things Your Business Broker Must Do to Earn Their Fee - Revisited
Selling a business is complex. Anything you read as a "how to" will be a generalization and may not reflect your needs.
Why Do Deals Fall Apart? - An Advisor's Perspective (Part 3)
Advisors who are in the trenches everyday working to get deals across the finish line provide us with their perspective on why deals fall...