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Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible Kevin Short

Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible By Kevin Short

Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible by Kevin Short


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Learn how to win big at the closing table when it's time to sell your hard-earned investment.

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Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible Summary

Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible by Kevin Short

Too many businesses sell for far less than they should! After pouring time, energy, and money into their company, owners deserve to squeeze every last dollar theycan from that hard-earned investment. Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price is the playbook they need to win big at the closing table. Readers will discover how to:

  • Prepare their companies and themselves for sale
  • Recognize the best time to go to market
  • Minimize their risk
  • Identify, attract, and motivate deep-pocketedbuyers
  • Determine their company's competitive advantage and leverage it for the best offer
  • Find a transaction advisor with the skills and experience to guide them through the M&A jungle
  • Ascertain whether the advisor has what it takesto get top dollar
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Foil buyers' attempts to undermine sale price

Featuring real-life case studies and an appendix of indispensable tools - including due diligence lists, sample nondisclosure agreements, a sales readiness assessment, and a sample engagement letter - this insightful guide reveals how anyone can get a positively outrageous price for their company.

About Kevin Short

KEVIN SHORT is the Managing Partner and CEO of Clayton Capital Partners, a leading middle market MA advisory firm. Over the past 25 years, he has orchestrated over 150 purchase/sale transactions of mid-sized businesses with an aggregate value of more than $1 billion.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgmentsix

Introduction1

PART 1:THE PROACTIVE SALE STRATEGY5

Chapter 1:Reducing Seller Risk and Increasing

Sale Proceeds7

Chapter 2:Step One: Assess the Company and

Owner for Sale Readiness17

Chapter 3:Step Two: Presale Due Diligence37

Chapter 4:Step Three: Identify the Competitive

Advantage55

Chapter 5:Step Four: Identify Potential Buyers69

PART 2:THE OUTRAGEOUS PRICE PROCESS77

Chapter 6:The Four Pillars of Selling Your Business

for an Outrageous Price79

Chapter 7:Pillar I: Leverage Your Company's

Competitive Advantage85

Chapter 8:Pillar II: The Outrageous Buyer99

Chapter 9:Pillar III: The Outrageous Seller107

Chapter 10:Pillar IV: The Outrageous Adviser119

Chapter 11:Executing the Sale143

Chapter 12:Wrap-Up169

Appendix A:Sale Readiness Assessment173

Appendix B:Legal and Financial Due Diligence List181

Appendix C:Management System Due Diligence List199

Appendix D:Checking an Investment Banker's References203

Appendix E:What to Look for in an Engagement Letter205

Appendix F:Sample Nondisclosure Agreement211

Appendix G:Questions to Ask a Prospective Investment

Banker215

References219

Index221

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CIN0814434711VG
9780814434710
0814434711
Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible by Kevin Short
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Focus
20141016
240
Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Entrepreneurship) 2015
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