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		<title>How is your business affected when your spouse wants a divorce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have been operating your business for many years and you have been having marriage problems for years.  One day your spouse wants finality to the relationship and wants a divorce.  How do you cope?
 
Do you have lines of credit that still can be drawn?  Is the spouse working for you.  I spoke to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What information do you need to value a business for sale?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different methods of valuing a business.  Some investors use discounted cash flow, others use a multiple of earnings, some look at appraised assets.  If you are in the same business as the business for sale that you are looking to acquire, what synergies exist between the two companies?  The amount of savings that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your business worth as much when the owner dies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens if the owner of the business dies prematurely, is the business worth the same or did the value of the business just decline?   Does the estate have to sell the business immediately or can it run without the owner? 
 
 How important is the owner to the business.  It also depends on the type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much is your business worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[valuation of a business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The definition of fair market value is a business is worth what a willing buyer is willing to pay.  Too many people believe that their business is worth more than it is.  Unlike a house, you cannot compare your business to the one down the street.  No two businesses are identical.  Even franchises are different, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How fast will the value of your business return to the levels prior to the recession?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last 6 to 12 months have been difficult for many businesses.  Some have gone out of business, others who were large enough were able to reduce the quantity of people working for them significantly so that they were either break even or marginally profitable.  The majority of companies have witnessed had significant erosion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it so difficult to value a business &#8211; Part III?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[valuation of a business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The previous two blogs show why businesses although they may appear to be the same are all different.  There are many different items which need to be factored in to the valuation of a business for sale namely:

 revenue &#8211; is this a company generating $10,000 of revenue of $100 million.  The higher revenue will appeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it so difficult to value a business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are your reviewing your personal situation and you need to value your business, for estate planning purposes or in case you are planning to sell the business.  You see ten different valuators and everyone comes up with a different value of your business and everyone has a disclaimer saying that the actual selling price could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start up businesses &#8211; how do you value them when you are looking for equity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[valuation of a business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to value a company.   Some people use a multiple of normalized earnings. There are different multiples for different types of businesses and different locations of businesses.  A business may have a higher multiple in a big city vs a town.    The multiple also changes depending on what part of the country you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you paying for when you buy a business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buy a business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you buy a business, you are buying assets of a company but in reality, you are buying a stream of earnings to be earned by those assets.  The business assets are a means to make money but if they did not produce a cash flow, you would not be buying those assets.  The assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valuation of a business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buy a business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valuation of a business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you sales are dropping and costs or rising, owners unfortunately will end up having to reduce or eliminate their salary.  Fluctuating the owners&#8217;s salary should have no impact on the valuation on the sale of  a business.   Most investors will look at normalized earnings to value a business. Normalized earnings are usually calculated backwards, starting with the [...]]]></description>
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