
Selling Your Business with Confidence
A Practical Playbook for Mid-Market Owners
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Selling Your Business with Confidence
A Practical Playbook for Mid-Market Owners
About this book
A comprehensive handbook for middle-market business sellers
In Selling Your Business with Confidence: A Practical Playbook for Mid-Market Owners, veteran M&A advisor David McCombie delivers an insider's guide to navigating the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sales process. In plain English, this book covers every essential topic for owners considering the sale of their business. Readers will fully understand the process, the range of options available, and their implications.
In the book, you'll learn to navigate every step of the exciting—yet stressful—business sale journey, such as:
- The overall timeline, mechanics, and typical strategies of a deal
- Understanding different types of buyers and what they prioritize
- Tactics you can implement immediately to make your company more valuable
- Strategies for emotionally and psychologically preparing yourself for the transaction
An essential roadmap to the complicated world of mid-market M&A transactions, Selling Your Business with Confidence is a must-have resource for business owners and the ecosystem of professionals who serve them.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Art and Science of Selling a Company
- Chapter 2 What’s My Business Worth?
- Chapter 3 What Are We Bultiplying By?
- Chapter 4 Picking the Right Time to sell
- Chapter 5 No Learning on the Job
- Chapter 6 M&A Is a Team Sport
- Chapter 7 Who’s Going to Buy My Business?
- Chapter 8 The Siren Call of the Unsolicited Offer
- Chapter 9 What Does a Buyer Want?
- Chapter 10 Choosing the Right Transaction Type
- Chapter 11 Bad News
- Chapter 12 Reverse Engineering Your Business
- Chapter 13 The Art of Selling
- Chapter 14 Negotiating Strategy
- Chapter 15 Overcoming Inertia
- Chapter 16 Documents and Deal Process
- Chapter 17 Tailoring the Process
- Chapter 18 Keeping the Secret
- Chapter 19 It’s a Process
- Chapter 20 Seeing Where You Stand
- Chapter 21 Purchase Price and Terms
- Chapter 22 Negotiating and Signing the Letter of Intent
- Chapter 23 Playing Defense
- Chapter 24 Legal Documentation and Critical Elements
- Chapter 25 Closing Craziness
- Chapter 26 Managing Your Emotions and Psychology
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- EULA