Exit Planning Small Business Owners Can Use: A Timeline
Exit planning small business owners can act on: a three-year timeline with annual milestones, a sale-proceeds example, and checks before going to market.
Practical guides on business valuation, exit planning, and selling a small business.
Exit planning small business owners can act on: a three-year timeline with annual milestones, a sale-proceeds example, and checks before going to market.
An owner dependent business can face lower offers and longer handovers. Learn how to price replacement work and prove the company can run without you.
Understand goodwill in a business valuation with a $750,000 purchase-price example, and learn why adding goodwill to an earnings estimate double-counts value.
Learn how customer concentration risk affects business valuation, what buyers measure, and how to reduce the discount before selling.
Understand how a business valuation SBA loan review works, what banks test, and how cash flow, add-backs, and deal structure affect financing.
Learn how long to sell a business, what delays the process, and how valuation, financing, and clean records affect the timeline.
Seven concrete levers that increase business valuation before you sell, with dollar math on how each one moves the multiple or the earnings base.
Learn what business brokers look for in a valuation, from clean earnings and risk flags to listing price judgment and dealability.
A complete pre-sale checklist for small business owners. Learn how to prepare business for sale, clean up financials, and maximize your valuation before listing.
Learn how owner's compensation affects business valuation, when it is a true add-back, and how buyers decide the market-rate replacement cost.
Understand the revenue multiple business valuation method. When it works, when it is misleading, and a worked example for a $900k SaaS business.
Three formulas to calculate your business value: SDE, EBITDA, and revenue multiples. Step-by-step math with a cleaning service example.
Understand how business valuation multiples work, why they vary by industry, and how to apply them. Includes a multiples table for 10 industries.
SDE vs EBITDA explained with a worked example. Learn which metric applies to your business sale and why the choice can change your valuation by six figures.
Learn what EBITDA means for your small business, how to calculate it, and why corporate buyers use it instead of SDE. Worked example included.
Learn how to calculate SDE for your small business. Worked example, common add-backs buyers accept, and how SDE turns into a sale price.
Calculate what your business is worth using SDE, EBITDA, and revenue multiples. Full worked example with a plumbing company and real numbers.