Let's Make Your Business Exit Ready
We are an innovative value creation firm with extensive (wide & deep) experience providing strategic and operational excellence for business owners and investors.
What Is Exit Ready? It Means Your Business Is:
Attractive to Owners, Customers, & Employees
Making your business perform well in these eight key areas provides attractive options to either "keep and scale" or "sell and exit" with a great outcome. This is what we mean by Exit Ready. Frankly, it's a good idea to always have your business Exit Ready to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Our clients tend to be business owners who aspire for access to the capabilities successful investors use to scale or exit.
Breakthrough Growth
Breakthrough Growth
The strategy is to build a scalable platform that allows businesses to select rate & quality of growth in sales and market share.
Growth Drivers
- Customer retention and expansion.
- Market retention and expansion.
- Product and service expansion.
- Effective and efficient customer acquisition.
- Pricing optimization.
Attractive Markets
Attractive Markets
- Markets with high-growth and profitability potential.
- Adjacent markets with future growth potential.
- Customers with attractive size, opportunities and commercial practices.
- Acceptable competitive intensity.
Compelling Products
Compelling Products
- Strong customer demand for high margin products and services.
- Solutions that satisfy unmet customer needs.
- New products that drive high value and high gross margin.
- Complimentary product opportunities that strengthen market position.
Scalable Operations
Scalable Operations
- Efficient, simplified and scalable infrastructure and operations.
- Driven by customer focus, improvement, elimination of waste and relentless prioritization.
- Effective supply chain strategy and performance.
- Utilizing the resources that align with vision and strategy and are difficult for others to duplicate.
Competitive Greatness
Competitive Greatness
- Business is leading all competition in share of gross profit.
- Powered by innovation, a strong brand, and effective channels.
- Effective sales and marketing pipeline.
- Product and market development is a high priority strategic initiative.
Capital Availability
Capital Availability
- Business is generating sufficient cash flow for strong organic growth.
- Capital availability is greater than required for synergistic growth investments to exceed long term goals.
Transferable Economics
Transferable Economics
- History of achieving growth and performance expectations.
- Credible and ambitious plans for the future.
- Effective, efficient and reliable business systems
- Records and governance to satisfy the due diligence process.
Championship Team
Championship Team
- Customer and product centered team.
- Motivated by the right values and fulfilling purpose.
- Welcoming, with strong harmony and synergy.
- Resulting in a high performing team with strong succession.
Why Exit Ready?
Exit Ready solves two huge challenges that owners face. Learn more in our Helpful Resources Section
70% of businesses
are currently not scalable.
According to Jason Goldberg for Entrepreneur Magazine – “70% of the top 1% of businesses (by growth potential) land up failing to scale.”
Scalability is broken into three parts:
1.) Scalable Market
2.) Scalable Business
3.) Scalable Team
One year after selling, more than 75% of owners regret it.
According to Eric Smith, Business Owner Advisory Specialist, Wealth & Investment Management, Wells Fargo Bank in his article – How to avoid five common regrets after selling your business – “More than 75% of business owners who sell their business experience profound regret within a year after the sale.”
Exit Ready Creates Wins
An Exit Ready business is a win for Business Owners, Employees, Customers, Trusted Advisors, and Investors
Business Owners Win
Business owners win because they can select their level of involvement with the option to Keep and Scale or Sell and Exit the business.
Employees Win
Employees win because they have received the training and experience of creating an Exit Ready business which means growth opportunities with the current or future owners.
Customers Win
Customers win because they will have a reliable partner who is scaling and can serve their needs with better products, services and solutions.
Investors Win
Investors win because an Exit Ready company is investor ready. Whichever decision the owner makes, Scale and Grow or Sell and Exit, the business is ready for due diligence.
Trusted Advisors Win
Trusted advisors win because they now have a value-added partner. Their business owner clients can now realize the benefits of owning an Exit Ready company.
Exit Ready Is a Clear Win for Business Owners
Scale or Exit?
When a business is Exit Ready, owners can confidently be in a position to either “Keep and Scale” or “Sell and Exit” at their discretion and have a great outcome.
Either way, the business owner wins.