Category 25

Selling a Business: Exits, Price, and What Actually Reaches You

What the sale is worth after everything comes out of it.

  • 5 modules
  • 23 lessons
  • ~3h total

What this category covers

The library teaches buying a business in depth — and this is the other side of that table. Selling is not the reverse of buying: the seller controls timing, information, and the story, and loses most of their leverage the day they sign exclusivity. You'll learn what a buyer is actually paying for, how to make a business worth more before it goes to market, and where the price agreed in the letter of intent quietly leaks away afterwards — working-capital pegs, escrows, indemnity baskets, and earn-outs that pay less than they promise. It ends with the part nobody plans for: the deal that dies, and what it cost you to run the process.

Deciding and Preparing

Running the Process

Where the Price Leaks

The Tax on the Way Out

After the Signature

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