Exit Strategies


Recent Exit Strategies Articles

What's It Worth?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1999

When Jim Hotze and Kent Watts decided to merge their businesses, they opted for a quick, relatively cheap "limited valuation" to determine the fair market va...  Read more

Business for Sale: Welsh Hunting Lodge

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1999

An overview of a Welsh hunting lodge offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of...  Read more

Business for Sale: Mail-Order Catalog Company

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jan 1, 1999

An overview of a mail-order catalog company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and ...  Read more

Business for Sale: East Coast Nursing Home

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1998

An overview of a nursing home offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of the pu...  Read more

Selling Your Business

By Colin Gabriel |  Nov 1, 1998

Advice on preparing to sell your company. Tips include choosing the right type of buyer, avoiding a costly audit, and dealing through brokers and other inter...  Read more

The Choice

By Joshua Hyatt |  Oct 15, 1998

Today's booming economic market is providing Inc. 500 companies with a wide array of growth options. From selling out to encouraging chaos, here's how they'r...  Read more

The Inc. 500 IPO: Does It Pay Off?

By Sally Chicotel |  Oct 15, 1998

It's tricky business investing in an Inc. 500 company. Here's a look at how the stocks performed for companies that went public after appearing on the 1988 I...  Read more

Business for Sale: Western Credit-Reporting Agency

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Oct 1, 1998

An overview of a credit-reporting agency offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con...  Read more

Business for Sale: Rocky Mountain Hunting Outfitter and Guest Ranch

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1998

An overview of a big-game-hunting and guest ranch business offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, an...  Read more

Divorce-Proofing Your Company

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1998

A divorce can destroy your company if you're unprepared. Here are tips on how to protect your business, including how to write a prenuptial, postnuptial, and...  Read more

Employee Ownership: The Basics, Tax Strategies Article

By Corey Rosen |  Sep 1, 1998

Employee Ownership: The Basics   Read more

Happy Endings

By Jerry Useem |  Aug 1, 1998

So you and your partner have tried everything. You've seen a marriage counselor. You've done primal-scream therapy. And still you hate each other's guts.<...  Read more

Partners on the Edge

By Jerry Useem |  Aug 1, 1998

Brett Cosor and Jeff Studley, co-owners of CPR MultiMedia Solutions, came to dislike each other so much they brought in a marriage counselor to help them thr...  Read more

Business for Sale: New England Stained-Glass Window Restorer

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1998

An overview of a stained-glass window restoration company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and...  Read more

Business for Sale: North Carolina Child-Care Center

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1998

An overview of a child-care center offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of t...  Read more

Exotic Auto Venture Is $24-Million Nonstarter

By Jerry Useem |  Jun 1, 1998

Harold and Ben Rosen, founders of Rosen Motors, failed to redefine the automobile with their hybrid electric car when major manufacturers rejected their new ...  Read more

Business for Sale: Historic Southwestern 'Events House'

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1998

An overview of a wedding-and-banquet hall offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and co...  Read more

Business for Sale: West Coast Equipment-Rental Co.

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1998

An overview of an equipment-rental company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and c...  Read more

Taking a Law Firm Public?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Apr 28, 1998

For Dick Testa, name partner of Boston's Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a firm that has guided many high-tech companies through their own initial public offe...  Read more

Obit: Disco Nights End on a Downbeat

By Mike Hofman |  Apr 1, 1998

The Transylvania Restaurant in Portland, Oregon closed down after a delayed opening hurt profits and the restaurant's disco night offended its conservative R...  Read more

Business for Sale: Mid-Atlantic Internet Service Provider

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1998

An overview of an Internet service provider offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and ...  Read more

Quotes: Consolidation

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1998

"There's mass consolidation in my industry. I get calls every day: buyout offers, investment offers. It's like the buzzards are circling. The most frighte...  Read more

Business for Sale: California Nudist Resort

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1998

An overview of a California nudist resort offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and co...  Read more

The American Dream

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1998

A look at a West coast manufacturer of laminated boards up for sale. Includes price, how the business was valued, the outlook on future sales, and the pros a...  Read more

Your Work Is Never Done

By Steven Berglas |  Nov 1, 1997

Berglas discusses the physical and psychological trauma that can occur when a CEO decides to retire, and suggests ways for coping with the transition.  Read more

It's Valuation Time

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1997

All sorts of events could trigger a need for a valuation; check with your accountant or lawyer whenever major changes occur within your business. You may ...  Read more

Business Valuation 101

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1997

For estate- and gift-tax purposes, an ideal valuation is one that's as low as possible, to minimize tax liabilities. Expect the appraiser to look fo...  Read more

Valuations 1997: What's Your Company Worth Now?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1997

It could be time for a corporate valuation. A guide to when valuations are necessary and what to expect.  Read more

Up from Failure

By George Gendron |  Sep 1, 1997

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview of the Sept. 1997 edition of the magazine and some of its topics and articles.  Read more

Exit Strategies: What's Yours?

By Jennifer Lawton |  Sep 1, 1997

Exit strategy -- I've never like that term. It smacks of an end, of leaving, of walking off without looking back. When I became an entrepreneur, I ...  Read more

Numb and Number: Public Offering, Private Turmoil

By Leslie Brokaw |  Aug 1, 1997

Ready to go public and rake it in? Read this before you leap.  Read more

Efforts to Save New York Winery Prove Fruitless

By Mike Hofman |  Aug 1, 1997

Facing frost and bad weather, a Long Island winery fails for lack of cash.  Read more

The Secret World of IPOs

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jun 1, 1997

A senior Inc. writer takes you through the uncharted territory of small-company public offerings.  Read more

So You Want to Go Public

By Steve Solomon |  Jun 1, 1997

An associate professor at NYU explains what various stock exchanges expect if you want to get on them.  Read more

Light Up, Go Public, Quit Your Day Job

By Jay Finegan |  Jun 1, 1997

Here's the recipe for a perfect IPO: a man and his cigar and how investors that love good smoke all found each other.  Read more