We look into why all business owners need to know what their companies are worth, timing your exit with the market, a great source for growth capital, and more. Click on the headline for the full piece.
The Importance of Knowing What Your Company is Worth
Here are our Top 10 Reasons To Have Your Company Valued, with comments from two business owners about how evaluations impacted the decisions they made.
Private Equity as a Financing Source
Gain a clearer understand of how private equity firms work with this analysis of a recent platform acquisition by Audax Private Equity.
M&A Basics: The Role of M&A Advisors
Business often owners ask: Why should I spend money to hire an M&A advisor? Can’t I just find a buyer on my own? Here’s the value M&A advisors bring to the table.
Middle Market Revenue Growth Trends
Revenue growth for middle market businesses is on the rise, according to the National Center for the Middle Market, which means it’s time to look at those exit plans. Why? We explain.
The Downside of M&A Market Timing
You may think you’ve got a handle on M&A market timing, but what happens if you don’t?
PitchBook’s M&A Data Reveals It Is A Sellers Market
“But what really caught my attention was the fact that private equity investors continue to focus on smaller companies when they make their investments. According to the latest PitchBook data, nearly 70% of the transactions were for companies valued below $100 million.”
Private Equity and Platform Acquisitions
“One of the biggest complaints we have heard from business owners is just how difficult it is to obtain financing to grow a privately held company. In fact, for a good many of the entrepreneurs that we meet with at our exit planning conferences, the biggest challenge is having great ideas for growing the company to the next level but an inability to obtain debt financing (that is affordable) to do so.
Fortunately, we have a solution for that but before we get to it, it’s important for me to show you what many are unaware of: equity financing from private equity firms.”
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