{"id":560721,"date":"2016-04-05T03:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrbbd.wpengine.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/considerations-when-sellingor-buying\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:43:56","slug":"considerations-when-sellingor-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/considerations-when-sellingor-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Considerations When Selling\u2026Or Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Important questions to ask when looking at a business\u2026or preparing to have your business looked at by prospective buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What&#8217;s for sale?  What&#8217;s not for sale?  Does it include real estate? Are some of the machines leased instead of owned?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What assets are not earning money? Perhaps these assets should be sold off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What is proprietary? Formulations, patents, software, etc.?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What is their competitive advantage? A certain niche, superior marketing or better manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What is the barrier of entry? Capital, low labor, tight relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What about employment agreements\/non-competes? Has the seller failed to secure these agreements from key employees?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How does one grow the business? Maybe it can&#8217;t be grown.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How much working capital does one need to run the business?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What is the depth of management and how dependent is the business on the owner\/manager?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How is the financial reporting undertaken and recorded and how does management adjust the business accordingly?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-113905424\/stock-photo-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.BillionPhotos.com\/BigStock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/deal-studio.com\/considerations-when-selling-or-buying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copyright: Business Brokerage Press, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important questions to ask when looking at a business\u2026or preparing to have your business looked at by prospective buyers. \u2022 What&#8217;s for sale? What&#8217;s not for sale? Does it include real estate? Are some of the machines leased instead of owned? \u2022 What assets are not earning money? Perhaps these assets should be sold off. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560722,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seller-articles"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560721","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=560721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}