John MacInnes started Print Audit in 1999. He aimed his software at anyone who would normally charge people for printing costs, like law firms or schools. Those businesses were often very aware of photocopy costs, but not of direct printing costs, and the software Print Audit provided allowed those individual prints to be properly assigned […]
Sometimes businesses come to us that need a bit of creative spark to sell properly. This is often because the business is in a unique situation. These are often fun for us as advisors because it gives us the opportunity to deploy our creativity and find solutions that get us offers. In this article, we […]
Recurring revenue businesses, particularly those built around subscriptions, are becoming more and more popular in the internet era. Even better for those interested in selling, they often fetch a higher multiple than businesses that do not have subscription/recurring revenues. There are three numbers that anyone building such a business should spend a lot of time […]
We’ve seen the question posed so often after completing a transaction that we know the words by heart: “How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?” Unless you had a strongly positive or strongly negative experience, you’ll usually just click past this online or walk past the various […]
As part of our job as business brokers, we cultivate long-term relationships with buyers and sellers. We do so with the latter because sometimes we plant the seed of possibly selling a company years and years before it may happen. With the former, it’s a question of earning trust by consistently bringing solid opportunities. Sometimes […]
While every business sells for different reasons, the businesses that sell quickly here in our offices — and by quickly we mean within 24-72 hours — all have a few traits in common. These traits happen to work well in the case of selling a business, but they are always present at the heart of […]
We all make mistakes in business. Sometimes it costs us money immediately, other times in the long term. In the worst cases, all the way through and including the sale of your business. Particularly when an owner is ready to sell and is in the mindset of “cashing out”. Not that long ago, we were […]
Long before the general public knew what Amazon Web Services was, and that it provided the backbone for entities ranging from Netflix to the CIA, Glenn Grant was building G2 Tech Group. G2 Tech Group was leading the industry in migrating services to the cloud, where Amazon Web Services lives. While it’s true that many […]
One of our brokers was recently asked to be part of a panel at a conference. The panel topic was about experiences in selling a business and in preparatory slides she saw a focus on the stress, emotion, and anxiety that came with a business sale. Being a rather no-nonsense type herself, she thought it […]
Whenever we discuss commonalities in successful transactions, inevitably “clean books” will be one of the first three things mentioned. Numbers don’t just matter for your valuation, or for tax purposes, or just to track where the money has gone: without clean books, a buyer can’t know whether he/she is looking at a solid business. Here […]
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