Business Owners Should You Hire an M&A Advisor to Sell Your Business? Selling your business is a big decision. Investor Brent Beshore, founder and CEO of adventur.es, a Midwestern-based permanent equity firm,…
Business Owners Valuation vs. Terms in a Business Sale The following is an excerpt from investor Brent Beshore’s recent book, The Messy Marketplace: Selling Your Business in a World…
Business Owners What Does an M&A Advisor Charge? Investor Brent Beshore, founder and CEO of adventur.es, a Midwestern-based permanent equity firm, recently published a book called “The Messy…
7 Negative Signals Investment Bankers Send to Investors The soft sides of a deal — the people, their behavior, and what it signals — can make or break…
4 Reflections on M&A in 2016 Missouri-based private equity firm adventur.es, which invests in “family-owned companies with unfair advantages,” recently released their 2016 Year in Review report. Below…
4 Frustrating Initial Approaches of Investment Bankers So many opportunities. So little time. This issue makes investment bankers and business brokers critical to effective M&A, especially in…
Questions Investors Ask on a Management Call — and Conclusions They Draw When we are interested in an opportunity, we build two lists of questions: one data-specific list for written response and…
EBITDA Adjustments From Crazytown At least once a week, we find ourselves looking through adjustments made to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization…
11 Reflections on M&A in 2015 As 2015 came to a close, we at adventur.es had a chance to take a breath and think about what…