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Map Guides Business Owners to Maximized Payday

Business owners find their motivation in varied things. Commercialize a pioneering methodology. Be one’s own boss. Prove naysayers wrong. Provide a great place for people to work.

While every entrepreneur has his or her unique set of goals, virtually all share one in common — to one day sell for a boatload.

How much? Well, more is better. And so the question every business owner asks is: “What can I do today to maximize the eventual sale price of my business?”

Premiums Being Paid Due to Supply-Demand Imbalance

We’ve been reporting that premiums are now being paid for businesses that have managed to post decent earnings during the recession. One key reason is there are many more buyers than sellers right now. Lots of buyers fighting to win the few deals available means higher prices.

It’s a sellers market.

Leveraged Recapitalization: Cash Out Without Selling Out

Need to buy out a shareholder but don’t want to put up your own money?
Need to take some chips off the table but don’t want to sell out?
Reduce your risk and gain some experienced, well-capitalized and well-connected partners?
Consider leveraged recapitalization.

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Perkins Speaks to SCORE Counselors, Pro Bono

“Things Every Business Seller Should Know” was the title of a presentation David Perkins gave Tuesday to an esteemed group of executives that volunteer their time assisting owners of small businesses. The group, Tulsa SCORE, is an affiliate of the Service Corps of Retire Executives (SCORE) headquartered in Herndon, Virginia and Washington, DC. The organization’s mission is “educating entrepreneurs and helping small business start, grow and succeed nationwide.”

Once-in-a-Lifetime Seller’s Market

Amazing but true. Premiums are being paid for companies that are selling today. Companies that would have topped out at five or six times EBITDA three years ago are going for seven, even eight today.

I didn’t see it coming but now that it’s here the logic is simple. An imbalance of supply and demand.