Karl wrote Selling Your Canadian Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing Value and Securing Your Legacy because he saw too many business owners making preventable mistakes that cost them millions of dollars and years of regret.
How private equity, search funds, strategic buyers and family offices approach a purchase differently, and what to decide about your own post-sale role before choosing among them.
Selling as a trade war looms is not automatically the wrong move. The signals, rising sales or essential goods, that argue for selling now versus waiting it out.
Ten factors that most consistently make a Canadian business stand out to buyers, from predictable cash flow and a diversified customer base to real scalability.
As inflation compresses margins and buyers grow cautious, the signals that argue for selling into it anyway, and the signals that argue for holding until it eases.