As a founder, it’s important to understand how investing your time, energy, and yes, money when planning your exit or capital event will produce significant ROI for you, your company, and your family. Check out the latest from Kirk to learn more about where to invest those precious resources once you’ve gotten clear on your WHY

Contemplating the sale of your company? Beware endless requests for information from financial sponsors, like private equity firms or funds. Not only does this outreach distract you from working on your business, but it is rarely fruitful and also feels like death by a thousand cuts.

If you're a founder on a path toward selling your business soon, these three minutes will help you save hundreds or thousands and maybe even millions!

Lately, we're blessed with a lot of inbound interest from founders of private companies, many of whom have asked, what does Candor Advisors do for Founders? We work with only ONE group of clients in THREE very specific ways...take a quick listen to learn more.

If you're a founder in the middle of a sale, or contemplating going to market soon, many 'savvy' buyers will tell you that multiples have come down so prices are lower.

Independent Sponsors, previously referred to as "fundless sponsors" and alternatives like search funds and SPACs make it increasingly difficult for selling owners to…

Looking at the 4 most important terms to know when selling your business: Valuation, EBITDA, Structure, & Diligence. Each of these serve it’s own important purpose in the sale of a company and we’ll define them in detail.

For founders thinking about selling their companies, we're fielding a lot of questions about whether they've missed their window. The answer depends a bit more now on market/buyer sentiment and their need for bank/mezzanine financing, yet still mostly on the businesses' transferability of economics and the founders' WHY in selling.

Wondering how big your company needs to be to attract the right buyers? Will they focus on revenues or profits? Curious about the process and players? Here's a few useful guideposts.

For many founders, decision making or just plain being decisive is key to their success, but there comes a point in time in a company's life where founder impulses fall short, and processes need to take their place...and Hope is NOT a strategy!

If you're a founder who's been offered an "earn out", this is for you. When your company's growth and the buyer's structure aligns, an earn out can work well for both of you, but make sure you understand that an earn out might make some of your sale price contingent on events beyond your control.

There’s a big difference between market intelligence and predatory behavior – armor up with the right advisor(s).

Interview with Kirk by Kevin Craine on the Everyday MBA Podcast

The Investment banker is worth millions and the wrong one can set your plans back by years.

If you're a founder and thinking about retirement or funding your next adventure, or maybe you'd just like to take advantage of the buyout boom, how do you know when it's the right time to sell? Here's a few key ideas to help with the decision.

We get this question quite a bit, especially now because we're in a buyout boom and private equity firms have junior associates cold calling and emailing business owners with unstructured offers for their companies.

Interview with Kirk by Mike Saunders of the Influential Entrepreneurs Podcast

The number one reason most founders don't sell comes down to the disparity between their expectations and the markets' realities. Understanding what you need from the transaction, finding out how that lines up with the way buyers will value your business, and being clear on your true bottom lines and the right structure can close or eliminate the gap.

If you're selling your company, or even taking in capital, there's a few things to expect from your buyer, and they're predictable behaviors based on buyer type. Prepare for them, and you'll be ready to respond appropriately, but fail to anticipate them and you might overreact and blow up your deal. Here's a few tips...

Do you want to retire? Do you want to do something else? Change your role? Are you burned out? Getting clear on this will help to navigate through challenges in every facet of your capital event!