From Equity to Exit Strategies - 8 Possible Paths

Think Now About Later

Hattie says you need to start thinking now about how you will leave your business because it is your baby and it will grow up. Like all of us, businesses have a life cycle.

Walk Away

Close the doors. This is your right. You own the business and you can close it down.  Ray DiSanto's company melted away when he died suddenly.

Give It Away

Rather than writing herself a big, fat check and walking away from Ebby Halliday Real Estate Company, Ebby decided to give 49% of the company to its employees. More...  Her episode...

Sell to Someone Close to You

Sell to Someone Like You

Peter Schenck found a buyer from his own industry contacts.

Sell to the Highest Bidder

Bob Orenstein sold his business for double-digit millions.

Sell to Your Employees

Use an Employee Stock Ownership Plan as the instrument to sell your company to your  employees.

Sell Through a Public Offering

While the Initial Public Offering (IPO)  is relatively well examined, the Direct Public Offering is not. Little known among DPOs is the Small Corporate Offering Registration, known as a SCOR.  Stockbroker David Porter explained the benefits.

Sell Into the Private Equity Market

Steve Watkins tells us how businesses are selling their securities, the stock certificates we got when we incorporated, within the Private Equity Capital Market.