Strategic Recasting – making your company more sale-able

Case study: A Northern California textile company – manufacturing and importing. Specializing in fine wool (men’s and women’s suits) and specialty fabrics. 12 years old, family run, $3.2M revenues. 2 woolen mills in Ireland. Steady if not impressive growth. Founder retiring, sons tired of business – will stay on for term. Company has weathered [...]

how much can I sell my pre-profit startup for?

You’ve gone way beyond having a business idea that gets a  “wow” from people who aren’t related to you.  You’ve actually bought in some outside help and you have the beginnings of a real business – abeit your Wunder-Teknology is still residing in peoples’ head and in long Word files of various laptops.
BUT, the entrepreneurial [...]

the 30-second approach to finding out how much your business is worth

Rules-of-thumb have the nasty habit of being used for so long that we start to think they’re more than rough guides, that they are, indeed, shortcuts to avoiding real work. And so it is with a whole lot of ‘back of the envelope’ approaches to figuring out how much a business is worth.
With this [...]

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 [...]