The Key to Preparing Your Business for an Eventual Investment or Sale

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Crafting an investment teaser for your business each year might seem premature if selling isn’t even on the radar yet. But this important forward-looking exercise does a lot more than prepare your business for an eventual investment or sale. It helps business owners visualize the pitch they would have to be able to give to achieve the business valuation of their dreams. The gap between what you would like to say and what you can credibly say is exactly where to focus your next frenzied period of energy and investment.

My partner and I learned this the hard way. We sold

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