Ruback, Richard S.,

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.



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Small business--Purchasing.
Sale of business enterprises.
Small business--Valuation.
Entrepreneurship.


Electronic Books.

HD62 / .H374 2017