Selling your business with confidence : a practical playbook for mid-market owners /

"Retiring Baby Boomers are creating a Silver Tsunami and over 70% of the 200,000 US mid-market businesses (between $10 million and $1 billion in sales) are expected to sell in the coming decade. For most owners, this is the first and only time they will ever sell a business. Because the stakes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCombie, David W., III (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The art and science of selling a company
  • What's my business worth?
  • What are we multiplying by?
  • Picking the right time to sell
  • No learning on the job
  • M&a is a team sport
  • Who is going to buy my business?
  • The siren call of the unsolicited offer
  • What does a buyer want?
  • Choosing the right transaction type
  • Bad news
  • Reverse engineering your business
  • The art of selling
  • Negotiating strategy
  • Overcoming inertia
  • Documents and deal process
  • Tailoring the process
  • Keeping the secret
  • It's a process
  • Seeing where you stand
  • Purchase price and terms
  • Negotiating and signing the letter of intent
  • Playing defense
  • Legal documentation and critical elements
  • Closing craziness
  • Managing your emotions and psychology.