• Bluekey Business Brokerage, M&A

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  • There are over 5,500,000 businesses in the United States (with a least one employee). At any given point in time approximately 20% of these businesses are for sale. That's over 1,000,000 companies on the market right now!

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  • Demographic fact: As Baby Boomers age, we see (1) some long-time business owners considering retirement (2) Boomers with discretionary funds willing to buy on-going ventures. ||||| ______________

so, how much is your business worth these days?

There are lots of ways to do valuation – from the rigourous  bring-in-the-accountants approach to the back-of-the-envelope scribbling based on revenue and a bit of Kentucky Windage.  And, predictably enough, a whole lot of free (or inexpensive) software tools to walk you through a process.
In this last group is the (free) valuation service provided by [...]