CHAPTER 12:

Your Grand Exit - Dying or Selling

 

- Pay Yourself First!

- How Much is Your Company Worth?

- Puffing Up the Hog to Take to the Fair

- Timing - The Search for the Perfect Wave

- A Clean House Brings A Higher Price

- Shoring Up Your Organization Structure

- A Credible Board of Directors

- Corporate Literature

- Clean Financials

- Stable Long-term Contracts

- Cleaning Up Your Paperwork

- Information and Financial Control Systems

- The Transition Management Team

- Lawsuits in Progress

- Structuring Your Deal

- The S Corporation

 

"Some long for the glories of this world; and some sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come. Ah, take the cash and let the promise go..."