What is David Barnett Business Buyer Advantage for Cheap?
What You Learn:
- Why would you want to own a business
- Buying vs. Starting a business
- How to start looking for a business
- Understanding buyer and seller motivations
- Negotiation fundamentals and BATNA
- The steps in the buying process
- Finding GOOD businesses for sale
- Using Intermediaries
- The initial contact with the seller
- Understanding business processes in the interview
- The seller’s mindset
- Examining the business
- Businesses vs. Companies what are you buying?
- What is a business?
- Normalizing financial statements (recasting)
- SDE vs. EBITDA cash flows
- Identifying problems
- SWOT analysis and small businesses
- Simple forecasting
- Determining the value of the business
- Methods of business valuation
- A sample case study
- Financing methods
- Proper deal structure
- Qualities of vendor vs. Institutional debt
- Making offers
- Actual deal examples from my business brokerage practice
- Understanding asset vs. share purchases
- Building your team
- Due diligence
- Franchises
- Understanding risks
- Buying a business in a recessionary economy
