Download or read book HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business written by Richard S. Ruback and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-in-one guide to helping you buy and own your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success. But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, Harvard Business School professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff help you: Determine if this path is right for you Raise capital for your acquisition Find and evaluate the right prospects Avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search Understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment Negotiate a potential deal with the seller Avoid deals that fall through at the last minute Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Download or read book Secrets of Buying the Right Business for You Right written by Ed Pendarvis and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever considered the American Dream of owning your own business? Let Ed Pendarvis, Sunbelt's founder, show you the secrets of finding, valuing, negotiating, financing and buying the right business.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Selling a Business written by Fred S. Steingold and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out there somewhere is a buyer looking to buy a business like yours. So if you're ready to sell, make sure you protect your interests and maximize your profit with this all-in-one guide.
Download or read book Primalbranding written by Patrick Hanlon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explains why the most successful brands--whether products, services, or organizations--create a culture of belief, in which the consumer develops a powerful emotional attachment to the brand as the best of its kind.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Buying a Business written by Richard W. Snowden and published by Amacom. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on guide helps potential buyers decide whether or not business ownership is right for them, and provides a blueprint for finding the right business to buy. "Essential reading for anyone about to take the plunge".--Christopher W.L. Hart, President, The TQM Group.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Buying a Business written by Fred S. Steingold and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers from thinking, “Hmm, should I buy a business?” right through the process of choosing, investigating, and entering into a legal contract to do so.
Download or read book Buying a Business to Secure Your Financial Freedom written by Edward T. Pendarvis and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The low-risk secret to a high-pro fit business--a perfect primer for first-time entrepreneurs More and more people are leaving their jobs and investing in small businesses--today's leading job growth opportunity. But isn't it risky? Not with Ed Pendarvis, whose business brokerage firm was rated #1 by Entrepreneur magazine. Once investors learn how to find and evaluate the right kind of business, the risks can be reduced--and profits dramatically increased. The secret lies in valuing and purchasing an already existing small business or franchise, one with a proven track record and potential for continued success. With this simple motivational guide, even a first-time entrepreneur can learn how to: Locate a business Negotiate a price Complete a sale Protect an investment Finance the future Achieve true financial freedom
Download or read book The Upstart Guide to Buying Valuing and Selling Your Business written by Scott Gabehart and published by Dearborn Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide covering the top three critical issues every business owner faces, this book ensures that all parties understand each other's needs, thus clarifying a complex process and opening the door to successful negotiations. The volume includes an extensive stand-alone glossary of relevant terms and concepts, as well as comprehensive lists of business opportunity sources, contact lists, and reference materials. The disk contains all the forms from the book.
Download or read book How to Buy a Business without Being Had written by Jack (John V. M.) Gibson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain access to practical tips and case studies that will help you evaluate how to buy a business and maximize your success as an entrepreneur. Before you start wading through the process of buying a business, it is imperative that you learn how to tell the good ones from the bad ones. John (Jack) Gibson, who has been helping buyers and sellers for more than thirty years, explains why some buyers and some businesses make a good fit. Learn how to value, negotiate and then buy a business and come out a winner. All you need to know to buy with confidence is clearly spelled out. “Before leaping into the arena, read Jack Gibson’s book. He has poured into it many years of relevant experience as both business owner and broker.” - Michael Haviland, MPA, Ed.D, Denver “I founded and sold two businesses over my career. I wish this book had been available to better prepare me to guide the buyers through the tough questions they needed to ask.” - Donald Mathews, Ph.D, Professor of Marketing
Download or read book Buying and Selling a Business written by Garrett Sutton and published by RDA Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying and Selling a Business reveals key strategies used to sell and acquire business investments. Garrett Sutton, Esq. is a best selling author of numerous law for the layman books, and he guides the reader clearly through all of the obstacles to be faced before completing a winning transaction. “Buying and Selling a Business” uses real life stories to illustrate how to prepare your business for sale, analyze acquisition candidates and assemble the right team of experts. The book also clearly identifies how to understand the tax issues of a business sale, how to use confidentiality agreements to your benefit and how to negotiate your way to a positive result. Robert Kiyosaki, the best selling author of Rich Dad/Poor Dad has this to say about Buying and Selling a Business, “Garrett Sutton’s information is priceless for anyone who wants to increase his or her knowledge of the often secret world of the rich, what the rich invest in, and some of the reasons why the rich get richer.” Buying and Selling a Business is a timely business book for our times.
Download or read book Buy Then Build written by Walker Deibel and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start...until now. What if you could skip the startup phase and generate profitable revenue on day one? In BUY THEN BUILD, acquisition entrepreneur Walker Deibel shows you how to begin with a sustainable, profitable company and grow from there. You'll learn how to: Buy an existing company rather than starting from scratch Use ownership as a path to financial independence Spend a fraction of the time raising capital Find great brokers, generate your own "deal flow," and see new listings early Uncover the best opportunities and biggest risks of any company Navigate the acquisition process Become a successful acquisition entrepreneur And more BUY THEN BUILD is your guide to outsmart the startup game, live the entrepreneurial lifestyle, and reap the financial rewards of ownership now.
Download or read book Business Buying Strategies written by Jonathan Jay and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're in business you probably have three challenges:You want to grow - but have hit a plateauYou want to reach your goals fasterYou want to do this with less stress and hassle...Buying a business can solve all three of these problems:You can grow your business in leaps and bounds by acquiring similar businesses, competitors or your supply chain. You can literally double your annual sales in twelve weeksYou will get where you want to go faster - in months rather than yearsYou will do this with less stress as others will manage the business for youThis book will help you shift from thinking like an 'operator' to thinking like a 'dealmaker'. As a result you will have a larger, more profitable business which can be sold for more money, faster.JONATHAN JAYis a an experienced dealmaker, buying and selling businesses for over twenty years. Dealmaking transformed Jonathan from a business 'operator' working long hours for little reward, to a multimillionaire. He is still actively investing and coaches and mentors others to do the same.I have just completed The Dealmakers Academy Mastermind Programme with Jonathan Jay. This has been a fast-paced year of exponential group learning, ably led by Jonathan, a seasoned authority in the buying and selling of businesses in a variety of different sectors. His facilitation and delivery of the programme has been eloquent and effusive and he has generously shared his 'secret sauce' for nimbly and ethically negotiating and constructing business deals with very little money down! I highly recommend Jonathan and this programme to anyone who wants to take business entrepreneurship to the next level! I very much look forward to working with Jonathan in the future! Dr Andrew Greenland
Download or read book How to Write a Great Business Plan written by William A. Sahlman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, often the more elaborately crafted a business plan, the more likely the venture is to flop. Why? Most plans waste too much ink on numbers and devote too little to information that really matters to investors. The result? Investors discount them. In How to Write a Great Business Plan, William A. Sahlman shows how to avoid this all-too-common mistake by ensuring that your plan assesses the factors critical to every new venture: The people—the individuals launching and leading the venture and outside parties providing key services or important resources The opportunity—what the business will sell and to whom, and whether the venture can grow and how fast The context—the regulatory environment, interest rates, demographic trends, and other forces shaping the venture's fate Risk and reward—what can go wrong and right, and how the entrepreneurial team will respond Timely in this age of innovation, How to Write a Great Business Plan helps you give your new venture the best possible chances for success.
Download or read book Buying a Business That Makes You Rich written by John Martinka and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of a practical guide to buying a mature, profitable, and fairly priced business. It not only has strategies for locating, analyzing, and structuring a deal but also the tactics. Readers will learn how to: Buy the right business the right way Access the hidden market of sellers Avoid overpaying Formulate win-win offers Know the right questions to ask and the answers to get Get the best financing package possible The book is loaded with real life stories so you can learn from what others did right (and the mistakes some made).
Download or read book Small Business For Dummies written by Eric Tyson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to start the small business of your dreams? Want to breathe new life into the one you already have? Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition provides authoritative guidance on every aspect of starting and growing your business, from financing and budgeting to marketing, management and beyond. This completely practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating start-up money to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You’ll get plenty of help in ramping up your management skills, developing a marketing strategy, keeping your customers loyal, and much more. You’ll also find out to use the latest technology to improve your business’s performance at every level. Discover how to: Make sure that small-business ownership is for you Find your niche and time your start-up Turn your ideas into plans Determine your start-up costs Obtain financing with the best possible terms Decide whether or not to incorporate Make sense of financial statements Navigate legal and tax issues Buy an existing business Set up a home-based business Publicize your business and market your wares Keep your customers coming back for more Track cash flow, costs and profits Keep your business in business and growing You have the energy, drive, passion, and smarts to make your small business a huge success. Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, provides the rest.
Download or read book Strategies for Successfully Buying Or Selling a Business written by Russell L. Brown and published by Bookworld Services. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers every aspect of buying and selling a business. It describes an easy five-step method to valuing any business, lays out the buyer's and seller's responsibilities, advises on the best time to sell a business, and gives the pros and cons of using business brokers. The text describes the all-important 3-step negotiation process, and essential franchise considerations.
Download or read book Buying and Selling a Business for Wealth written by Kevin Uphill and published by Thorogood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how to start or buy, then develop and sell, a business in order to realize capital and personal wealth. When making profit plans, most owners work only on a day-to-day basis and give no thought to an exit or succession. Many are unaware that it is possible to work on the profit and capital value at the same time. Here the authors show the owner how to achieve maximum income during his/her stewardship of the business, while planning for a sizeable business asset through a sale. Using case studies and detailed guidance, the book provides practical advice on how to create and improve capital value through various means, such as leadership, people, culture and branding.