This week’s M&A Access features Alan Pawlowski, Partner, Next Point. Pawlowski explains the importance of maintaining sufficient business and personal investments to meet one’s retirement cash-flow needs. He also contends M&A experts can help entrepreneurs understand value drivers and the steps needed to increase the overall value of the business.
The simple fact is that most of us want to control our own fate. This fact is especially true for entrepreneurs and business owners. However, the truth of the matter is that for most business owners, their fate isn’t completely in their own hands. For example, a variety of forces can prevent businesses from establishing…
This week’s M&A Access features Earl W. Swink, CPA, Swink Coplen & Company. He specifies how the CPA should be involved in the deal on the “front end” to achieve the most success. Swink also details how CPAs work with owners to get businesses ready for a potential future sale—CPAs need a five-year lead time,…
John Warrilow is the founder of The Value Builder System and accomplished author. While not a business broker himself, Warrilow has gathered considerable knowledge and expertise on the industry. His previous book Built to Sell was listed as one of the best business books of 2011. In this article, we will explore some of the…
This week’s M&A Access features Silvana Capaldi, Founder & President, Ispirare Group. She breaks down the Tampa Bay market—successful businesses are pivoting to accommodate the pandemic and are not abandoning their marketing budgets. Capaldi also delivers advice to business owners moving forward.
No two companies are quite alike, and this also means that there are many reasons why companies can fall into trouble. While the number of variables involved in operating a company are practically endless, there are a handful of reasons why companies can fall on hard times. Let’s take a closer look. Lacking Focus Companies…
This week’s M&A Access features Andy Greenberg, CEO, GF Data/Greenberg Variations Capital. He details GF Data analytics’s most interesting revelations, particularly the incredible resiliency of the M&A market and the overall economy. Greenberg also pinpoints the interplay between the deals that come to market and the debt support for those transactions as the most critical…
Your time is your most valuable commodity. The simple fact of the matter is that many “buyers” are not truly buyers. In contrast, they are often window shopping or acting out a fantasy of buying a business. In other cases, they would only plan to buy if they were to find the “deal of the…
