So you’ve done the deal! All of your hard work paid off! Now what? In my last blog, we started discussing the need to begin increasing shareholder value. Once you’ve gone through the figures and done the cash flow and profit management tasks, the next thing is to get the business ready for sale. Enter …
So you’ve acquired a new business…now what? It is really tempting to keep the company you’ve bought. Business is such an emotional thing, and as an entrepreneur, you have to develop a keen emotional maturity about it. It is easy to keep everything and to love them like your children. Trust me, those businesses don’t …
I recent weeks, I’ve shared two great ways you can get into businesses with no money down, namely through a merger or by creating an agglomeration. Both of these methods help businesses solve issues involving risk, scale, and liquidity, as well as provide for easier succession planning. I’m sure much of this sounds great, but …
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In my last blog, I shared a topic near and dear to my heart: the need to bridge the gap between SMEs (Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises) and the global capital markets. The three key reasons big money doesn’t follow the value of investing in SMEs are due to issues involving risk, scale, and liquidity. But …
Today, I’d like to talk a little bit about a situation that is particularly perturbing to me, and how, as a problem-solving entrepreneur, I propose solving it. Namely, why small businesses contribute to over 50% of the world’s GDP yet does not share that same percentage of the world’s investment capital. Did you know that …
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Let’s face it, no matter how well we think we’re proceeding with a deal, things come up. Some teach us valuable lessons; other times, great things come from them. Today’s blog is about one such time when a great thing was created. Once, I took a 50% stake in a process outsourcing business with a …
We’ve looked at how you might structure a deal with a deal pie, so now let’s have a look at mergers. A merger is an acquisition of a company using shares instead of cash. Instead of paying cash to complete the contract, you give up equity in your business. It’s absolutely a no-money-down transaction. You …
I love sharing stories of great deals, especially when the deals show that the tactics we share at the Harbour Club work. This is a remarkable story of “Steve,” a Harbour Club member since August 2017, and a deal that presented itself literally a few days after he attended his first-course meeting. The lead: a …
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Most people think a deal is about how much cash you need now and how much later, and these are the only parameters they consider. It’s probably because we are used to buying property, and most people know how to buy a house: cash plus mortgage. That’s it. However, business deals have many more parameters …
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Bill Gates was once asked what he thought was the most significant invention in business in the last hundred years. Everyone expected him to say the desktop PC or the internet or something related to his world and career. He said the Limited Liability Company (LLC). He felt that the limited liability company was the …
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