Buying Your Own Business
eBook - ePub

Buying Your Own Business

Bullets: * Identify Opportunities, * Analyze True Value, * Negotiate the Best Terms, * Close the Deal

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Buying Your Own Business

Bullets: * Identify Opportunities, * Analyze True Value, * Negotiate the Best Terms, * Close the Deal

About this book

Buying your own business is the shortest route to realizing that dream-and often financially safer than starting from scratch. Buying Your Own Business, 2nd Edition is the essential reference to reaching your goal. This completely revised and updated guide offers more strategies and tips than ever. You'll learn how to:
  • Identify business opportunities
  • Plan an acquisition strategy
  • Evaluate target businesses
  • Negotiate a fair arrangement
  • Close the deal

Also included are completely new sections on how to:
  • Utilize online resources
  • Revitalize a sluggish company
  • Assess a company's strengths and weaknesses
  • Prepare for tax season with up-to-date changes in tax laws.

With more than twenty years of experience buying and selling businesses, Russell Robb provides the practical step-by-step advice you need to buy a business-and make it your own!

Russell Robb is a twenty-year veteran in the mergers and acquisitions business, providing investment banking and corporate finance advisory services to a wide range of middle-market companies. He served as president of the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and as president of the 9,000-member Association for Corporate Growth International headquartered in Chicago. Robb is the author of Streetwise(r) Selling Your Business and the first edition of Buying Your Own Business. He is currently the managing director of Tully & Holland, Inc. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

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Information

Publisher
Adams Media
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781558507029
eBook ISBN
9781440515668

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1. How and Why People Buy a Business
  7. 2. Should You Buy a Business?
  8. 3. Acquiring Small Businesses
  9. 4. Acquiring Businesses via the Internet
  10. 5. Acquiring Family Businesses
  11. 6. Acquiring Service Businesses
  12. 7. Acquiring Troubled Businesses
  13. 8. Assessing Your Acquisition Strategy
  14. 9. Valuation Techniques
  15. 10. Valuation Considerations
  16. 11. Use of Intermediaries
  17. 12. Your Acquisition Team
  18. 13. Finding the Deal
  19. 14. Raising Cash
  20. 15. Picking Apart the Financials
  21. 16. Looking Beyond the Numbers
  22. 17. Negotiating
  23. 18. Letter of Intent
  24. 19. Putting the Deal Together
  25. 20. Due Diligence
  26. 21. Representations and Warranties
  27. 22. The Closing
  28. 23. Postclosing—How to Make the Acquisition Work
  29. 24. Why Deals Fail
  30. 25. Legal and Tax Issues
  31. 26. Letters, Memos, Forms, and Contracts
  32. 27. Case Studies of Buyers
  33. 28. Pearls of Wisdom
  34. 29. Conclusion
  35. Appendix: Supplemental References