No two Exit experiences are exactly alike.
He pulled off the nearly impossible task of finding a large company that would bu.
Gary Hirshberg founder of organic yogurt pioneer Stonyfield Farm.
He learned about unhappy exits when he was forced to sell to private equity investors, leaving him with nothing to show for his thirty-five years in business.
Bill Niman founder of the iconic Niman Ranch, which revolutionized the meat industry.
He turned down a bid for his company and instead changed his management style, resulting in a subsequent sale for four times the original offer.
His book showcases the insights, Exit plans, and cautionary tales of Entrepreneurs such as Ray Pagano founder of a leading manufacturer of housings for security cameras.
Burlingham interviewed dozens of Entrepreneurs across a range of industries and identified eight key factors that determine whether owners are happy after leaving Their businesses.
Unfortunately, most owners don t start early enough and pay a steep price for Their procrastination.
The beautiful part is that if you start early enough, the process will lead you to build a better, stronger, more resilient company, as well as one with a higher market value.
Whatever your preferred outcome, you need to start planning for it while you still have time and options.
Sooner or later, all Entrepreneurs leave Their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem how to Exit your company well. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem how to handle the pressure to grow.
What did the people with good exits do differently from those who d had bad exits? When pioneering business journalist and Inc.
The question I hope to answer in this book is why.
Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare.
No two Exit experiences are exactly alike
