You think your business is worth five million dollars. The buyer thinks it’s worth three. The two-million-dollar gap isn’t because the buyer is "cheap." It’s because your books are a disaster. You’ve been running your company to minimize taxes, not to maximize […]

"I’ll just give it one more year." It sounds responsible. It sounds like a plan. It sounds like you’re squeezing every last drop of value out of the lemon before you toss the rind. It’s usually a lie. In reality, "one more […]

You think you have time. You think you are the one holding the stopwatch. You believe that because you built the company, you get to decide exactly when the story ends. You are wrong. In the world of business, the clock is […]