Cautionary Tale #7: Excess Inventory Blocks a Sale

Cautionary Tale #7: Excess Inventory Blocks a Sale

We all make mistakes in business. Sometimes it costs us money immediately, other times in the long term. In the worst cases, all the way through and including the sale of your business. Particularly when an owner is ready to sell and is in the mindset of “cashing...
Case Study #33: The Acquirer Gets Acquired

Case Study #33: The Acquirer Gets Acquired

Long before the general public knew what Amazon Web Services was, and that it provided the backbone for entities ranging from Netflix to the CIA, Glenn Grant was building G2 Tech Group. G2 Tech Group was leading the industry in migrating services to the cloud, where...
Anxiety before Closing is Normal

Anxiety before Closing is Normal

One of our brokers was recently asked to be part of a panel at a conference. The panel topic was about experiences in selling a business and in preparatory slides she saw a focus on the stress, emotion, and anxiety that came with a business sale. Being a rather...
Cautionary Tale #6: Accounting Woes

Cautionary Tale #6: Accounting Woes

Whenever we discuss commonalities in successful transactions, inevitably “clean books” will be one of the first three things mentioned. Numbers don’t just matter for your valuation, or for tax purposes, or just to track where the money has gone: without clean books, a...