Maximize the value of your business
Create an attractive company for acquisition
Build confidence in an expeditious transaction
Business Owner's Guide to Achieving a Successful Transaction
Gain insight from 30 years of merger and acquisitions experience and address the issues that need to be managed to improve your business today and present value for its future.
The author of "55 Questions to Ask Before You Sell Your Business," Robert Wagner, wrote this book because he believes that business owners deserve to come out on top by receiving maximum value for the business they have built.
Praise for 55 Questions
This book should be required reading for all business owners—and long before they get to the negotiating table. 55 Questions provides a great framework for owners to think critically about their businesses and how to achieve the exit they want.
Kevin Sendlenski, Managing Partner of Cambridgeport Capital Partners
Whether your selling you're business or keeping it, the things you need to do to create success for each scenario are amazingly the same. This book does a great job of outlining the key elements of success. The depth of these 55 questions will lead the reader to think about (and hopefully act) upon the critical aspects of creating new value for the company. This is a great read for any and all business owners.
David Woods, Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Executive Partners
Most business owners will sell a business once in their life. You don't know what you don't know. This book does a great job in guiding you through questions to ask yourself and your trusted advisors to bring clarity to a confusing, emotional, and literally life-changing event. Don't wait until you are ready to sell to ask these questions. Do it today to create a business someone wants to buy.
Bryan Clifton, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Myriad Insight
Ryan Holder, Managing Director of Strategic M&A Advisors, LLC
If you are ready to open your mind and heart to what must be done before you sell your business, this book is for you. It is full of practical, proactive and powerful insights that will help you clear with confidence the mental and emotional, operational and strategic hurdles of such a life changing event.
Randy Nail, Chief Executive Officer of HoganTaylor LLP