GUIDES
Guides
- How to sell a business
The decisions that come before a listing: what is for sale, who may know, and what a preliminary range is not.
- How much is my business worth?
A preliminary range uses figures you provide. It is not an appraisal and not a price a buyer must pay.
- Selling a small business
Small does not mean simple. The owner is often the product, the books, and the landlord relationship.
- Selling a company in New Jersey
New Jersey asset sales can trigger a bulk-sale notice to the Division of Taxation. This page is not tax advice.
- How to find a business broker
What to ask before you hire.
- Business broker fees
How fees are usually structured, and what to read before you sign.
- Preparing a business for sale
The records and the owner's weekly job, written down before a buyer asks.
- Financial statements buyers want
What a buyer is trying to reconstruct.
- How long it takes to sell a business
What actually uses the calendar, from the first conversation to a closing.
- Selling a business that includes real estate
The company and the building are two assets until you decide they are one deal.
- Selling a business with employees
Who is told, when, and what a buyer is actually hiring.
- Selling a business confidentially
What stays off the public web, and what confidentiality cannot hide forever.
- Business acquisition
A purchase with a defined scope, not a browse of everything for sale.
- Buying an existing business
What you are buying besides the story: customers, leases, and the owner's unpaid job.
- SBA financing for buying a business
What the SBA's 7(a) program is, in the SBA's own terms.
- Seller financing
When the seller is also the lender, and why that is a term, not a favor you should assume.