Follow the ABCs of Buying a Business
- June 10, 2019
Make sure you dot all your i’s and cross all your t’s before signing on the dotted line. Make no bones about it; buying a business is a big deal. Depending on whether you buy…
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June 10, 2015
Q: I’m in a situation where one owner is an active “sweat equity” owner; the other is inactive but provides financial capital. I’m the sweat-equity owner who has put in the hours and grown the business, while the other has been gone for months at a time. I am now in the process of trying to buy out my business partner. He put $20,000 into the business and I am trying to figure out where to start on coming up with a fair number to buy him out. He seems to think $32,000 is the number, although we are just barely starting to turn a profit. Any suggestions? A: Whether $32,000 is a fair number depends on a number of factors: Whether you have a partnership agreement that sets out the method for valuing a partner’s interest upon exit (If so, follow that.) How businesses in your industry tend to be valued–$32,000 may be fair for a product-based business if you’re on the upswing and your partner relinquishes all rights to develop similar products, but…
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