#315: Understanding the 5 Main Exit Options for Your Business with Ryan Tansom

August 25, 2022 00:35:25
#315: Understanding the 5 Main Exit Options for Your Business with Ryan Tansom
Intentional Growth
#315: Understanding the 5 Main Exit Options for Your Business with Ryan Tansom

Aug 25 2022 | 00:35:25

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Show Notes

 Ep. #1 [THEME FIVE]

 

Today we’re kicking off our next mini-series theme: Through the Eyes of the Buyer: Understanding Your Exit Options. 

 

In this episode, host Ryan Tansom is running solo and lays the foundation for the following episodes where he interviews a wide variety of business buyers. Today Ryan gives an overview of each of the 5 major exit options and how you, as a business owner, can decide which exit option is best for you. 

 

When listening to this episode, it’s important to remember the concept of “ownership vs. management roles” and how they need to be separated so you can learn how to build a path forward for each. This is extremely important because your management role and ownership role (your equity) are impacted differently with each exit option.

 

For example, you could exit your ownership role by selling the equity in your business (your financial asset) AND continue running the company as the CEO if you want, OR you could quit your W2 job while still staying an owner by keeping your equity in the business. 

 

Like many of our listeners, you may be asking questions like: “Even though I don’t want to sell, what are all my exit options and how do they work?”; “Which exit option is best for me?”; or “How do I know if I am handing the keys to my business over to the right buyer?”

 

Today’s episode is a great starting spot to help you clarify the variety of ways you can exit a company and what’s important to think about as you begin to explore the topic.

 

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What You Will Learn

 

// USE YOUR FINANCIALS TO CLARIFY A PATH TOWARDS A MORE VALUABLE BUSINESS: Intentional Growth Financial Assessment

 

Interview Quotes:

07:18  - “There are ownership versus management roles. You can have equity in a company and not have a job. Private equity, that’s an entire industry. It’s what they do.” - Ryan Tansom

09:50  - “There’s almost an infinite amount of ways you could structure your ownership sale and/or what you can do with your job.” - Ryan Tansom

10:00  - “We need some sort of framework to understand what our choices are.” - Ryan Tansom

11:53  - “There’s another layer of this a financial sale most often and that is the intrinsic financial value of a company based on the risk of the cash flow.” - Ryan Tansom

14:14  - “There’s these programs going on in these Ivy League schools now teaching people how to buy companies. So someone could come out of Yale and they’ve got a bunch of student debt, they don’t have a pot to piss in for wealth. But they hypothetically have the skills to run a business.” - Ryan Tansom

17:30  - “If you do a 100% ESOP, the company no longer pays federal or state income tax. So there’s a lot of additional cash flow to service the debt.” - Ryan Tansom

23:47  - “The private equity firms have been going down-market to try buy smaller companies because there aren’t a lot of good companies to buy in the middle to upper market.” - Ryan Tansom

27:00  - “What do you want? What do you want from your business and why?” - Ryan Tansom

 

Links and Resources:

Episode 310: “Intrinsic Financial Value - The Value of a Business Based on the Risk of its Cash Flow with David Diehl”

Episode 276: “Branding for Buyout with Ted Schlueter”

 

Arkona Bootcamp

Arkona Website

The 5 Intentional Growth™ Principles (5 Videos to Help Clarify Your Vision)

Intentional Growth™ Financial Assessment

Fractional CFO Services

 

You can also reach out to me via email at [email protected], or on my LinkedIn.

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