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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Know the timeline After a sale, buyers often expect you to stay on for one to two years as an employee or consultant. Clean Up the Financials Five years of clear, consistent books build trustno formal audit needed, just detail. Consistently book expenses to the appropriate line item.

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How activist Elliott could use its data center know-how to amplify returns at Equinix

CNBC: Investing

When evaluating an investment, the firm also hires specialty and general management consultants, expert cost analysts and industry specialists. The high costs associated with building and maintaining in-house data centers combined with fluctuating data needs allows colocation companies like Equinix to thrive.

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How to Sell an IT Business: Everything You Need to Know in Five Minutes

Sun Acquisitions

Standard marketing steps include developing a compelling pitch book or confidential information memorandum that highlights your businesss strengths, qualifying potential buyers to ensure theyre serious and sufficiently capitalized and handling all inquiries and negotiations discreetly.

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How Mike Lampert Grew New England Truck Center Through Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

Mike Lampert: Right now our main focus, I mean we do towing heavy truck repair, we build and sell tow trucks. Chandler Kohn: Are you keeping the same logos on the building or are you rebranding? Even if they have like we go and get them a a good offer, they’re really concerned to make sure that sign stays on the building.

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High-Performance Collision Shops, Leadership, Lessons & Efficiency with Steve Trapp

Focus Investment Banking

Something in our pre show call we talked about was the importance of managing by data and structure rather than building your operation and managing your operation on gut feel. And so management walking around also involves building relationships with those techs and saying, hey, what could we be doing better to help you do better?

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Bill Black on Scaling National Fleet Management

Focus Investment Banking

We’re scratching our heads and we, we looked and we’re like, man, we’re an independent repair shop with a Volvo sign on the building. So, you know, the game of growth and building to me is fun and it also allows me to attract high caliber team members that want to build because my dream has to be bigger than yours.

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Driving Change, Innovation & Emerging Tech Reshapes the World We Know with Steve Greenfield

Focus Investment Banking

I have some of the books that we’ll talk about later on on my phone in my Kindle app right now. I want to dive deeper later in our conversation into the books as I referenced, but in your book The Future of Mobility, you describe a fundamental shift in how people move and how vehicles fit into that.

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