From Equity to Exit Strategies - 8 Possible Paths

Think Now About Later

Hattie says you need to start thinking now about how you will leave your business because it is your baby and it will grow up. Like all of us, businesses have a life cycle.  More...

Walk Away (1)

Close the doors. In this video, you'll first meet Joseph Johnson, still working at age 96 years old.  He worked until he was 101 and died at his desk.  Then you meet Ray DiSanto (pictured here).  His company had an excellent reputation --  the pride of Providence and his 40+ employees -- and it all  just melted away when he died suddenly.  More... 

Give It Away (2)

Rather than writing herself a big, fat check and walking away from Ebby Halliday Real Estate Company, Ebby decided to give 49% of the company to her employees.  More...    Home...   Related...   Ebby's episode...

Sell to Someone Close to You (3)

Sell to Someone Like You (4)

Peter Schenck found a buyer from his own industry contacts. More...   Related...

Sell to the Highest Bidder (5)

Bob Orenstein sold his business for double-digit millions.  More...   Related...

Sell to Your Employees (6)

Use an Employee Stock Ownership Plan as the instrument to sell your company to your  employees.  More...   Related...

Sell Through a Public Offering (7)

While the Initial Public Offering (IPO)  is relatively well examined, the Direct Public Offering is not. Little known among DPOs is the Small Corporate Offering Registration, known as a SCOR.  Stockbroker David Porter explained the benefits.  More...   Related...

Sell Into the Private Equity Market (8)

Steve Watkins tells us how businesses are selling their securities, the stock certificates we got when we incorporated, within the Private Equity Capital Market.  More...  Related...