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Monetizing your Business is a podcast for business owners seeking capital to stay and grow or maximizing value when it’s time to sell and go. Your host, Walt Lipski shares over 30 years of real life deal experiences and strategies from helping business owners create the liquidity they need for: making an acquisition, taking a large dividend for personal financial diversification, buying out a partner and much more all while keeping majority control of their business or maximizing their proce ...
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Will the Proceeds from the Sale of Your Business be Enough?
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When a business owner sells their company, they are selling the “economic engine” that has been providing the cashflow to support their family’s lifestyle for the past many years. Now the question is “will the proceeds, after taxes and expenses, be enough to fund the future?” In this episode, Walt drills down with a real world example that challeng…
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5 Key Drivers to Boost Your EBITDA Multiple
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Business sellers are intently focused on the valuation multiple they are getting for their business. In this episode, Walt discusses 5 key value drivers that increase both the salability of your business and its value. Every business owner can benefit from incorporating these “drivers” into their business whether ready to sell soon or in 5+ years f…
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Results from the Q4 2021 Market Pulse Report indicate its still a seller’s market with transaction terms and valuation multiples near all time highs. Join host Walt Lipski in this timely podcast to learn about the underlying drivers that are supporting this market and some of the potential challenges for business sellers on the horizon. Click here …
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As a Seller in the current market and for the foreseeable future, you may very well see an Earnout as a component of the deal structure in offers you receive for your business. Why? Because of the uncertainty about the future of the economy, the pandemic, the political climate, lockdowns etc. In simple terms, an Earnout is a risk allocation structu…
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When it comes to selling your business, or any financial transaction for that matter, multiple offers create choices and leverage, and it follows, that choices and leverage beat fairness 9 out of 10 times. This Episode is not about selling your business today, but rather about a strategy designed to gain leverage and advantage when the time comes t…
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Today I want to explore and explain the different types of buyers for privately held businesses, how they buy and what they are looking for in an acquisition. When it comes time to sell your business, it should go without saying, you need a buyer who can buy the way you need or want to sell. A buyer who can structure a deal that will allow you to a…
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Today I want to Discuss the Barriers to Success in Closing a Business Sale Transaction. Were you aware the success rate for selling a business is very low? Data from BizBuySell, which has the largest inventory of businesses for sale on its website with 45-50,000 listings at any time, shows that in any given year only 16-18% sell. The Exit Planning …
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Entrepreneurs are generally a positive thinking lot, and as such, often view their business ownership through a lens of “immortality” thinking they will run their business forever. Intellectually, we all know eventually all business owners will face a transition out of their business at some point down the road. But discussing it today can often be…
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Welcome to Monetizing Your Business with Walt Lipski
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Monetizing your Business is a podcast for business owners seeking capital to stay and grow or maximizing value when it’s time to sell and go. Your host, Walt Lipski shares over 30 years of real life deal experiences and strategies from helping business owners create the liquidity they need for: making an acquisition, taking a large dividend for per…
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