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Common Types of Insurance Agency Sellers

Sica Fletcher

Your agency valuation will play a large role in influencing how buyers perceive your agency’s worth. Take time before bringing your agency to market to optimize your daily operations, thus increasing the likelihood of a higher valuation. Generally, these fall into two distinct categories of advisory firms or investment banks.

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11 Concepts We Can Learn About Chocolate, Roll-Ups, and Successful Exits From How2Exit's Interview W/ Gia Cilento and Walid Costandi

How2Exit

The criteria include factors such as valuation multiples, legal issues, availability of buyers, ESG focus, maturity, and competition. They argue that by bringing in experts, business owners can expedite the process of preparing their business for sale and increase their chances of getting a higher valuation.

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M&A Roundtable Takeaways: Preparing for a Transaction

SDR Ventures

Advisory Panel Members: – Scott Mitchell , Director of Investment Banking, SDR Ventures – Spencer Clawson, Partner, Peterson Partners – Thomas Courtney, President & CEO, The Courtney Group – Doug Rodgers, Chairman, Focus Investment Banking To read Axial’s coverage of the roundtable event, click here.

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Top 3 Growth Financing Options for Software Companies

Software Equity Group

Minority investors aim to increase value and earn a return on their investment when your business undergoes additional transactions down the line, whether through additional capital raises, acquisition, or an initial public offering (IPO). Hiring an advisor for your growth financing helps ensure a successful transaction.

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Artificial Intelligence: A Must for Small Businesses

Focus Investment Banking

We believe small and medium-sized business service companies—not just large corporations—need to adopt AI and automation into their processes to streamline their operations, reduce errors, improve productivity, cut costs, and increase sales, which leads to richer valuations and attractiveness to prospective acquirers. We’re here to help.

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The essential guide to raising private equity

Growth Business

Capital is available, valuations have started to normalise and the debt markets are still supportive – albeit with greater scrutiny and higher costs. This meant that when it came to it, the thorny issue of valuation was well thought through and understood by all parties. Our discussions led to Bridges investing £8.5

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Biotech Hedge Funds: A Match Made in Heaven

Mergers and Inquisitions

In technology, as a startup keeps raising capital, it normally does so at gradually higher valuations as its customers, users, and revenue grow. But in biotech, companies valuations often remain close to their total capital raised until much later in the process (i.e., or Ph.D.),

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