"My point here is every single dollar matters when you're selling your business and everybody's going to exit their business someday, so you pay attention to those little details.’’
If you want to exit an online D2C business, you can’t just start pitching to VCs. There’s got to be a method to your madness! No matter how promising your industry might sound and how profitable your path to massive growth looks like, the buyer needs certain fundamentals in place to even consider buying your business. 
There’s also an option where you can exit the daily operations of the company and become a strategic advisor i.e. you can exit the daily business without exiting the company.
In episode 83 of the Customers Who Click podcast, I talked to Joe Valley of Quiet Light Brokerage about various ways to plan a wealthy exit from your online business and the mistakes to avoid along the path. 
Joe Valley is a serial entrepreneur and currently a co-owner at Quiet Light Brokerage, a leading online-focused M&A advisory firm. He has also built, bought, or sold over half a dozen of his own companies.
Over the last nine years, Joe has mentored thousands of entrepreneurs whose goal is to achieve their own eventual exit. He is a ​Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Professional, and a frequent guest expert in mastermind groups, on podcasts, and at events for entrepreneurs worldwide.
You can talk to Joe on LinkedIn, visit the website of his M&A firm for online businesses, or get free chapters of his book on exitpreneur.io.