Capital Concepts Insights
News and helpful advice for business owners, founders, and entrepreneurs who want to build and exit their companies successfully.
Most Recent Articles
Cashflow: Why you need it, and how to have money in the bank for your next busy season
Gain insights from industry experiences and expert guidance to optimize your financial strategies.
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
Set Your Business Up To Run Without You
Set Your Business Up to Run Without You
Fixing an Unprofitable Business Model
Uncover expert tips on reevaluating pricing, cutting costs, enhancing efficiency, diversifying revenue streams, and more.
Scalability: What It Is and How to Improve It
Scalability is the ability to grow – to flex and adapt production and operations to accommodate a rising demand for products or services. Growth can create unexpected challenges, however. and if a business cannot scale, it could fail because it’s too successful too quickly.
Risky Business: High Customer Concentrations and Your Business Performance
Overreliance on a single customer or vendor isn’t good practice. This article explores the dangers of “putting your eggs in one basket”: loss of market share, reduced bargaining power, increased operating costs, exposure to risk from a single source, and difficulties in meeting demand.
Business Performance and Staff Retention
In the fast-paced dance of business, the last thing you want to hear from an employee is, “I’ve found another position and will be moving on.” It’s not just a farewell; it’s a hit to your business performance and staff retention.
How To Set Good Goals That Build Your Business
Knowing that planning and setting goals is a good thing to do is different from actually doing it. We’ve created a list of questions to consider that will guide you through planning and goal-setting for your business..
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Articles on Exit Planning
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
The 5 Most Profitable Business Exits
Exiting your business does not just happen. It requires strategy and foresight. The good news is planning will boost your current business success!
How To Avoid the Biggest Valuation Mistake Made by Business Owners
You’ve been working on the sale of your business for months now. All the work, not just to complete this sale but to build a business someone else actually wants to buy, is about to pay off.
You hold your breath as the sales agent slides a piece of paper across the desk towards you…with a number completely different than you’d negotiated!
“As you know, we did a final business valuation last week to determine the final sale price for the closing today,” she explains. “After reviewing all of your records, we have determined that the value decreased from our initial estimate a year ago. As a result, the sale price will be 25% lower than we originally planned.”
What happened to the profitable sale you worked so hard for?!
What To Do If Your Business’s Valuation Is Too Low
You’ve decided to create an exit plan, and now it’s time to find out how much your business is worth. What if the value comes in lower than you expected? In this week’s Insights article, we talk about common issues that contribute to a low business valuation and how to move forward.
How To Prepare for a Strong Business Valuation
You’ve been reading our series and have decided to do some exit planning. You’ve audited your time, started planning for your free time, and have an idea how much money you’ll need for the next chapter. Now it’s time to find out what your business is worth now, so you can create a plan to get it to the value you need it to be. This week’s article shares the information you need to gather for a professional valuation, and what to do if you don’t have that information ready.
Videos on Exit Planning
The video below is the first in a playlist of 6 videos, each 2 minutes or less, on the kinds of challenges business owners must overcome to successfully exit their businesses. We can help with each of these.
Articles on Business Performance
Cashflow: Why you need it, and how to have money in the bank for your next busy season
Gain insights from industry experiences and expert guidance to optimize your financial strategies.
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
Fixing an Unprofitable Business Model
Uncover expert tips on reevaluating pricing, cutting costs, enhancing efficiency, diversifying revenue streams, and more.
Scalability: What It Is and How to Improve It
Scalability is the ability to grow – to flex and adapt production and operations to accommodate a rising demand for products or services. Growth can create unexpected challenges, however. and if a business cannot scale, it could fail because it’s too successful too quickly.
Risky Business: High Customer Concentrations and Your Business Performance
Overreliance on a single customer or vendor isn’t good practice. This article explores the dangers of “putting your eggs in one basket”: loss of market share, reduced bargaining power, increased operating costs, exposure to risk from a single source, and difficulties in meeting demand.
Articles on Business Value
Cashflow: Why you need it, and how to have money in the bank for your next busy season
Gain insights from industry experiences and expert guidance to optimize your financial strategies.
Set Your Business Up To Run Without You
Set Your Business Up to Run Without You
How the Four Types of Intellectual Property Contribute Value to Your Company
Intellectual property is a highly valuable type of intangible business capital. It can take 1 of 4 forms: trademarks, patents, copyrights, or trade secrets.
Your company must take the time and invest the resources to protect its intellectual property! Learn why IP’s are so important, and how you can protect yours in our latest article
Five Ways Financial Management Improves Your Business’s Value
Poor financial management can manifest itself in many ways, but the price is always the same: the value of your business.
Odds are, as the owner of your business you are a strategist, visionary, and leader. But you likely don’t have the bandwidth to manage the complexities of your business’s finances.
But not to worry! We’ve outlined 5 ways financial management will improve your business’s value.
How To Avoid the Biggest Valuation Mistake Made by Business Owners
You’ve been working on the sale of your business for months now. All the work, not just to complete this sale but to build a business someone else actually wants to buy, is about to pay off.
You hold your breath as the sales agent slides a piece of paper across the desk towards you…with a number completely different than you’d negotiated!
“As you know, we did a final business valuation last week to determine the final sale price for the closing today,” she explains. “After reviewing all of your records, we have determined that the value decreased from our initial estimate a year ago. As a result, the sale price will be 25% lower than we originally planned.”
What happened to the profitable sale you worked so hard for?!
LEVERAGING FINANCE STRATEGY TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS.