I want to
Sell or exit my company
The deal is the easy half. The after is what people are unprepared for.
Whatever you're trying to become, someone has walked it
27 lived experiences in the library16
founders who exited
6
acqui-hires
5
family business successions
The patterns underneath
71%
felt worse in month three post-close than pre-close
14 mo
median process from first conversation to close
2x
smoother when the team heard it from the founder first
Common first steps
Sequenced the way they usually happened, not the way advice lists them.
- 01Clean the books a year before you talk to anyone
- 02Make yourself replaceable in the org chart
- 03Get one honest valuation opinion
- 04Decide your walk-away number in writing
- 05Plan the first 90 days after the money lands
Read exactly how they did it
ProfessionalExiting
Sold the company he spent 11 years building
A $6M-revenue logistics software business acquired by a strategic buyer — and the identity crisis that followed.
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Tomás Silveira, Austin, TX7 steps
ProfessionalExiting
Sold his family's hardware store to its employees
Third-generation owner who turned down two buyers and sold the business to the nine people who ran it.
family businessemployee ownershipsuccession
Marcus Bell, Greensboro, NC7 steps