“Nearly half of the 799 small-business owners surveyed in August by The Wall Street Journal and Vistage International, an executive-mentoring organization, expect to retire after age 65, with 38% saying that their planned retirement date is later than they had...
Many people have a dream of improving on their: status, financial stability, self-worth, career satisfaction, and wealth by owning their own business. Rather than working for others and conceding to the daily grind, they take control of their future. They can make...
As was mentioned on the last blog, there has been a bit of uncertainty and nervous energy focused on the fiscal cliff. Well,the cliff was averted for most people, and the wealthy weren’t guillotined. The stock market responded favorably. Since the new laws were...
With the last of our deals getting done on December 28th, it’s time to look past the fiscal cliff craziness to the deals that are in the works for 2013. There has been a recent surge of business owners that are now prepared to sell – for various reasons: Some were...
This comes from a recent success. We had been engaged in conversations with this particular seller for a year or so. We knew he was getting ready to sell and that he had already been in a conversation with a potential buyer. As we established a relationship with the...
There are a few options for a business owner who wants to retire. Selling the business to an employee or group of employees is one of those options. This may seem like the easiest way to transition, but the seller should still have professional assistance to make sure...
