by Barbara Taylor | Exit Planning, Mindset, Selling
There’s something about the ten-year mark that makes one pause and look inward. I’m not sure the exact day I set foot in the M&A industry. Perhaps it was the day in 2005, when Chris and I started talking about selling our own business. Or maybe it was the day in...
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by Barbara Taylor | Exit Planning, Selling
I first met Josh Patrick in 2009 when I was writing a blog for the New York Times. We quickly connected based on our shared attitudes around small business — namely the need for owners to create a business with transferrable value, and to be more proactive about...
by Barbara Taylor | Exit Planning
If you’ve ever perused Amazon.com or your local bookstore looking for information on how to exit your business, you’ve probably come up with a short list of resources. While there are countless titles about starting and running a business, there are precious few that...
by Barbara Taylor | Exit Planning, Valuation
If you talk to anyone who has known me for longer than an hour, they’ll most likely tell you that I gave them a book recommendation. As an English major, former bookstore manager, and avid reader I can’t resist trying to put books and people together. I secretly judge...
by Barbara Taylor | Building Value, Exit Planning, Featured, Valuation
The good folks at the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal published my latest guest commentary this week [subscription required]. It was part of the “Northwest Arkansas’ Largest Private Companies” issue. Here is the article in its entirety. Enjoy!...
by Barbara Taylor | Building Value, Exit Planning, Selling, Valuation
In case you missed it, Josh Patrick recently wrote a three-part series for his New York Times blog – Creating Value – about the sale of a business that ended in disaster. Despite all of the details provided, it’s still hard to know exactly what went wrong and why....
