Selling Your Business: Key points to consider when selling your business

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This book summarizes key points for business owners to consider as they begin their journey of thinking about selling their business.
It’s designed to be a short, portable checklist of sorts, with actual cases to re-enforce certain points.
If, like most business owners, you have spent many years building your successful business and it is now time for you to sell – maybe to fund retirement – the transaction is likely to be one of the most important, if not the most important, in your life.
It’s also likely to be the first, and last time, you’ll ever sell a business.
So being informed, being prepared, is critically important to optimizing the outcome.
This book addresses key issues such as what's my business worth?, exit multiples, the importance of transaction terms vs price, tax planning, estate planning, what does being prepared mean for a seller?, timing, term sheets, a letter of intent, NDAs, adjustments to financial statements, types of buyers, funding an acquisition, ESOPs and alternatives to taking some cash off the table - other than selling your business - in 17 short chapters
It's designed to be a quick read, packed with important points.
If this book helps to inform you about the journey that lies ahead, provides some guidance and in doing so makes you a smarter seller, then I’ll have done my job