{"id":560720,"date":"2012-06-27T03:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrbbd.wpengine.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/considerations-when-selling-or-buying\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:44:38","slug":"considerations-when-selling-or-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/considerations-when-selling-or-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Considerations When Selling&#8230;Or Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Important questions to ask when looking at a business&#8230;or preparing to have your business looked at by prospective buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What\u2019s for sale?\u00a0 What\u2019s not for sale?\u00a0 Does it include real estate? Are some of the machines leased instead of owned?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What assets are not earning money? Perhaps these assets should be sold off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What is proprietary? Formulations, patents, software, etc.?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What is their competitive advantage? A certain niche, superior marketing or better manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What is the barrier of entry? Capital, low labor, tight relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What about employment agreements\/non-competes? Has the seller failed to secure these agreements from key employees?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0How does one grow the business? Maybe it can\u2019t be grown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0How much working capital does one need to run the business?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0What is the depth of management and how dependent is the business on the owner\/manager?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0How is the financial reporting undertaken and recorded and how does management adjust the business accordingly?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important questions to ask when looking at a business&#8230;or preparing to have your business looked at by prospective buyers. \u2022\u00a0What\u2019s for sale?\u00a0 What\u2019s not for sale?\u00a0 Does it include real estate? Are some of the machines leased instead of owned? \u2022\u00a0What assets are not earning money? Perhaps these assets should be sold off. \u2022\u00a0What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selling-a-business"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}