Exit Strategies


Recent Exit Strategies Articles

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

Business for Sale: Minichain of Cinemas

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1997

A business offered for sale including such information as price rationale and some pros and cons of the purchase.  Read more

Jig May Be Up on Fantastic Stock Multiples from Roll-up Acquisitions

By Hal Plotkin |  Feb 1, 1997

New SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin may spell the end to the roll-up gravy train.  Read more

Pioneer CD-ROM Maker Hit by Hardball Competition

By Mike Hofman |  Dec 1, 1996

An obit for a company that produced consumer-oriented CD-ROMs and a look at why it failed.  Read more

Public Markets: IPO Corrections

By Mike Hofman |  Nov 1, 1996

Today's IPO market is not driven by young high-tech companies, as many CEOs and investors believe.  Read more

Main Street Inc.

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jul 1, 1996

A senior Inc. editor tells why the companies that perform well on Main Street are as critical as any found on Wall St.  Read more

The Seller

By Christopher Caggiano |  Jun 1, 1996

The story of how and why a publisher sold his magazine company successfully and who bought it.  Read more

No Tech, No Takers

By Inc. staff |  May 1, 1996

Various Inc. writers examine eight myths about going public that the 1996 market shatters.  Read more

International: Joint-Venturing Tips

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1996

A quick look at an unusual plan used by a company when it found it needed an overseas partner.  Read more

Cashing Out: Preparing for That Day

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1995

A business owner who became an investment banker tells Inc. how he prepared to sell his company.  Read more

Which Track Are You On?

By Jerome A. Katz |  Oct 1, 1995

Jefferson Smufit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies's director discusses the different ways people exit thier companies.  Read more

Resource: Navigating an IPO

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Oct 1, 1995

The Ernst Young Guide to Taking Your Company Public is reviewed and two tips are offered for launching an IPO.  Read more

Buy-Sell Ageements: Does Yours Still Make Sense?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1995

A lawyer offers tips on how to ensure you make the most out of your buy-sell agreement and protect your heirs.  Read more

Cashing Out: Shells Offer Liquidity

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

A consultant explains the benefits of a public shell and an executive officer explains how he used this strategy.  Read more

The Making of a Millionaire

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1995

The step-by-step account of how G&W, a small, low-tech consumer-product marketer became an unlikely dream IPO -- and made its two founders rich overnight.  Read more

A New Way to Keep Investors Happy

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

A company creates an innovative offer that investors love and raises capital.  Read more

Benchmark: Business-Continuation Planning

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

Some data showing 71% of small-business owners have small-business-continuation plans and who provided the plans.  Read more

Going Public: It Pays to Be Flexible

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A comic-book publisher explains how he brought his cash-strapped company through an IPO.  Read more

Start-Up News: Speedup in Cashing Out

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Jan 1, 1995

Two graphs and some figures suggesting there is a trend that start-ups go public much more quickly than before.  Read more

Company Profile: True Value

By Anne Murphy |  Jan 1, 1995

A close-up look at how a new company emerged from failure, and how the cofounders are protecting themselves this time.  Read more

Pre-Partnership Pondering

Jan 1, 1995

You may be reluctant to discuss the potential breakup of your business partnership, fearing that such talk could prove self-fulfilling. Butclarifying stic...  Read more

Do-It-Yourself Public Offering

Jan 1, 1995

Not long ago, most small companies gave scant consideration to selling stock to thepublic. The time and expense of complying with Securities and Exchange ...  Read more

Borrowing from Employees

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1992

Raising capital by allowing employees to act as investors.  Read more

Repurchasing Employee Stock

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1991

Understanding the potential risks of ESOPs available repurchase liability software.  Read more

Getting The Most Out Of An Esop

By Ellen Wojahn |  Jul 1, 1983

It takes more than a piece of the rock to motivate employees. They want to feel they have a piece of the action, too.  Read more

Louis Kelso's Esop Crusade

By Michael Rozek |  Apr 1, 1982

The inventor of ESOPs talks about how hard it is to put a theory into practice.  Read more

How To Decide If Your Company Needs An Esop

Apr 1, 1982

An Employee Stock Ownership Plan carries three fundamental benefits and three fundamental disadvantages for a closely held company. Briefly, the ben...  Read more

What I Learned From Going Public

By Don J. Hindman |  Jan 1, 1982

A successful entrepreneur says he would be a lot more careful the second time around.  Read more

The IRS Wants to Know: What's Your Business Worth?

By Irving L. Blackman |  Jul 1, 1981

The IRS will want to know, and you should know how they'll figure it out. Revenue Ruling 59-60 has the answers.  Read more

IPO Activity Strong in 2004

By Jonathan Steiman

Jan. 4, 2005 --Google's IPO captured the headlines in 2004, partly because of their unorthodox approach--an auction--and partly because in...  Read more