HBR guide to buying a small business /Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff.
Buying a small business Harvard Business Review guide to buying a small business
- Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (x, 302 pages.)
- Harvard Business Review guides .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The opportunity : entrepreneurship through acquisition -- Is entrepreneurship through acquisition for you? -- The acquisition process -- Anticipating the cost of your search -- Paying for your search -- Identifying the characteristics you want in your business -- Managing your search effectively : an overview -- Sourcing prospects using brokers -- Sourcing directly -- Enduringly profitable small businesses -- Using financial information to gauge enduring profitability -- Filtering for the owner's commitment to sell -- Preliminary due diligence -- How much should you pay for a small business? -- Deal terms -- The offer -- Confirmatory due diligence -- Raising debt -- Raising acquisition equity -- Negotiating the purchase agreement -- The closing day and beyond.
9781633692510
Small business--Purchasing. Sale of business enterprises. Small business--Valuation. Entrepreneurship.