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To Startup or Acquire Your Business? Choose the Less Risky Path.

The successful start-up entrepreneur has been glamorized in the media through reality shows like Shark Tank and wide spread accounts of people that have become fabulously wealthy growing a business that started with the kernel of an idea. However it’s no … Continue reading

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How to Increase the Sales Value of your Green Business

The owners of small and medium-sized green businesses may hope for a higher price when they go to sell their businesses because of their exceptional brand value or reputation.  But they will be disappointed unless they can make a clear … Continue reading

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5 Strategies to Preserve Core Values during a Business Sale

For many owners selling their business is not a simple financial transaction, it’s personal. Owners have poured blood, sweat and tears into building a business that is not only profitable but represents their values as individuals.  Their businesses become not … Continue reading

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For Impact Companies, ‘Exit’ Is Not a Four-Letter Word

As a mergers and acquisitions advisor with an interest in serving the social impact community, I arrived at the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) conference seeking strategies to preserve the missions of social impact companies that go through a merger or acquisition. … Continue reading

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