Case Study #9: Fishing Trips

Sep 25, 2017 | Case Studies

John Bowen was the CEO of Reinhardt Werba Bowen (RWB), a financial services company that was acquired by Assante Capital in 1998 for $25M. While the exit was ultimately a happy one, it started inauspiciously. Why? Because John was the object of a “fishing trip” from a...

Know Your Broker: Jay Kvasnicka

Sep 18, 2017 | Know Your Broker

In this occasional series we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know the men and women that make us best qualified to help you buy or sell a business. Jay has been in the industry for just about a decade. He has owned both a promotional...

Book Club #8: Anything you Want, by Derek Sivers

Sep 15, 2017 | Book Club

Derek Sivers sold his company, CD Baby, for $22M. For years he’d made tens of millions of dollars for independent musicians by giving them a platform by which they could sell to their fans. Some time after, he wrote a very short book about the experience,...

Case Study #8: What’s Your Sweat Equity Worth?

Sep 10, 2017 | Case Studies

Dr. Phil Carson (a different Dr. Phil than the one most people know) is the owner of Carson Natural Health. Before he began that business, he helped create a pharmacy business. He didn’t have anything to invest in that pharmacy business as he’d been wiped out in...

Is It Time to Revisit Why You’re Still Running Your Business?

Aug 31, 2017 | Build A Better Business

As your business grows over the years, things change. You may come to find that the reasons you started the business aren’t the same reasons you’re running it now. Or even the reasons you aspire to in the years to come. If you can’t easily answer “Why are...