Just been asked for my article on exit strategy. Had a quick look and there seems to be quite a choice...
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- Exit Strategies
- Time for a Sharp Exit - exit options
- Let's Talk Exit (Growing Business Magazine)
Entrepreneurs Refuse the Big Big Payouts
How Much Is My Business Worth?
Let's Talk... Exit, Sell or Retire
also see Business For Sale and Succession Planning in FreshBusinessThinking and Business: Exit Strategies at Ecademy for a slightly different spin on the original articles.
Also see Escape Options - Planning a Profitable Exit in Business Zone
22 comments:
The Dos and Don'ts in the Growing Busienss article are short and to the point. The same key points are repeated so by the end you get it.
IMHO not enough people confront the Exit issue. Even worse than wills, people just don't think about it. Not very clever.
Are you still running the Let's Talk Exit seminars?
Intersting approach. Nothing revolutionary but good commeon sense.
Too few people think about the Exit strategy and how they are going to get there. And what to do when they get there.
Am re-reading "Rework" by the founders of 37Sginals.
Prefer their view: you don't need an exit strategy, you need a COMMITMENT strategy.
Amen to that ;-)
Karin H (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
Suggest you take a look at Small Giants by Bo Burligham....
http://robert-craven.blogspot.com/2007/09/small-giants-companies-that-choose-to.html
Tim
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Robert
Agreed Bo Burlingham is worth a look. Glyn
Agreed Bo Burlingham is worth a look. Glyn
Intersting approach. Nothing revolutionary but good commeon sense.
Too few people think about the Exit strategy and how they are going to get there. And what to do when they get there.
IMHO not enough people confront the Exit issue. Even worse than wills, people just don't think about it. Not very clever.
Barclays mini-tour continues. Email rc@directorscentre.com for more details
Bristol, Nottingham, Swindon, Middlesboro to name a few...
An interesting set of articles and blogs. Good food for thought and will sen on to my accountanat. Be interesting to hear what he has to say.
Had a look at Small Giants, but it didn't really impress me, to be honest. Even found it a bit boring, focusing on "small" USA businesses and higgledy-piggledy written.
What I enjoyed was the general thrust of the book - that businesses do not have to sell out.
True, hence my remark from a month ago from a much better book - see below
Have got rework on the shelf but haven't gone through it. I will do that ASAP...
The thing about #exits is… http://t.co/qpGwLG6
Growing Business Mag
So how does this compare with the article in Better Business magazine by Colin Thompson?
Martin
The two articles are identical (IOD one from my website circa 1996 http://www.robert-craven.co.uk/article-business-exit-strategy-options.php
and the one in Better Business magazine..
Mine was written by myself.
Have contacted the magazine three times but no reply.
What would you do?
Not quite clear here, Robert
You ran a series of workshops for Barclays "Let's Talk... Exit Strategies" You used your article and based the whole workshop on your materials.
So, are they your materials or the work of this Colin Thompson?
I have seen the Better Business article and it is the same as your workshop notes, slides and accompanying article but that was back in 2005/6
Mike
The facts:
All the material referred to was written by me and not by Colin Thompson.
The article in Better Business magazine is attributed to him by the magazine.
It also appears in one of his ebooks and in one of his newsletters. It was written by me in 2006.
If you wish to continue this conversation then can we do it offline rc@thedc.co.uk
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