Business Owners How Business Owners Can Prepare for “Crossroads” Situations Most of the time, the traditional investment banking business model is a very effective way to sell a middle-market business.…
Business Owners 4 Ways to Turn a Profit on Secondary Buyouts Secondary buyouts (SBOs) have been on the rise over the last two decades, and even more so in the last…
Buyers How Dane Manufacturing Grew 3X in 3 Years [Video] How do you take your business to the next level? At the 2018 Axial Concord in NYC, Dane Manufacturing CEO…
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 How to Reduce Owner Dependence Before a Sale CEOs: What would happen if you went on vacation for a month and left your business to run itself? If…
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…
Advisors 2018: Year In Review for the Axial Platform 2018 was full of exciting developments on the Axial platform. We shipped over 450 updates to the site, evolving the…
Business Owners As Search Fund Popularity Rises, Alternative Models Emerge Today, the number of active search funds is at an all-time high, according to Stanford’s 2018 Search Fund Study. A…
Business Owners 6 Tips for Transitioning From a Founding CEO For lower to middle market private equity funds, a key value creation lever can be the successful, collaborative transition of…
