Thinking of exiting your business in the next few years and creating a liquidity event?
Hold on a minute. Because there’s more to it than hitting a magic revenue or EBITDA target, hanging up a ‘For Sale’ sign and waiting for the offers to roll in.
And that’s before you consider any new tax policies the government will put in place between now and when you exit 🙂
Many shareholders I’ve worked with were shocked to discover they’d been sabotaging their own exit plans without even realising it.
They’d spent years building their companies, only to leave millions on the table and take longer to actually achieve an exit.
I would say that by far, the most common shareholder problem I see is failing to understand precisely WHY their business will be acquired and THEN creating more value around that very reason, prior to any valuation discussions.
The other thing I see are businesses not becoming sufficiently ‘sale ready’ or simply leaving it too late to prepare.
Don’t let this be you.
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