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Nine years of writing, in the order the business cares about it. Everything above is the same archive, newest first.

Buying a business: what to check before you are committed, how deals are structured, and what actually happens after the papers are signed.

What a business is worth to a buyer, why that is rarely the number the owner had in mind, and what moves it in the years before a sale.

How acquisitions get funded, what lenders look at, and the cost of money for a deal this size.

Making a business bigger and more durable. Written for owners, and useful to a buyer reading the same company from the outside.

Part-time senior help: what the roles actually do, what they cost, and when bringing one in is the wrong answer.

The people problems that decide whether a business survives its founder, which is the first thing a buyer tests.

Where revenue comes from, and how much of it walks out of the door with the person who built it.

Longer conversations with operators and specialists, from the earlier podcast.

Operations and process improvement, the skills an owner needs and small business growth: practical posts that sit across more than one topic.