A business exit strategy is a plan that a business owner or entrepreneur establishes to sell their ownership in a company to investors or another company, or to cease operations entirely. An effective ...

If you’re like many business owners, your focus is on the day-to-day operations. Thinking about the "next chapter" is something you know you should do, but it keeps being put off. Yet, if you don’t ...

Exit strategies allow business owners and investors to sell or transfer ownership of assets or companies. They can use these strategies when seeking to retire, cash out or shift focus to new ventures.

Solo owners and partners of small practices can end up working until they drop, selling their practice (including a merger leading to a fairly quick buy-out), transitioning the practice to long-time ...

How can we be talking about starting a business and already discussing how to exit? It may seem counterintuitive, but having a well-defined exit strategy from the beginning is one of the most crucial ...

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