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Richard Parker

Fort Lauderdale
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Prospective Business Buyers Spend Far Too Much Time On The Numbers

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By Richard Parker
| Forbes Verified
When business buyers focus most of their attention on the financials, they often overlook the more important aspect and that is that determine whether it is actually a good business for them to buy. Regarding financials, buyers spend far too much time analyzing them. The numbers are the numbers. They don’t lie. Sellers lie, but not numbers. How much due diligence do you really need when buying a business?
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Earnouts Can Be The Best Way To Buy A Business

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By Richard Parker
| Forbes Verified
A core fundamental to evaluating whether to buy a certain business is the assurance, to the best of the buyer’s ability, that the business’ performance will remain status quo post sale assuming no catastrophic events. While potential future growth is sexy, stability is valuable.
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Individual Business Buyers Are Flooding And Messing Up The Market

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By Richard Parker
| Forbes Verified
Over the last several years, the number of potential buyers in the business for sale market has exploded. The problem however is the supply of good businesses has not increased. Quality deal flow remains a massive challenge in the lower market and for larger institutional buyers like PE firms. One would also think that with more buyers the prices upon which businesses sell would increase drastically yet this is not the case.
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