Determining Value First off - “Different businesses are worth different amounts of money; to different people, at different times, for different reasons”. It is important to remember that the only value that counts is what the business is worth to you. There are many...

If you’ve started looking beyond the surface to purchase a company, it’s HIGHLY likely that you’ve encountered the often mysterious and controversial “add-back” in the seller’s financial statements. So what is an add back and why is it in there? Here’s the best...

As you know, SBA loans can often be the best way to go in order to finance your business acquisition.  Through SBA financing, you can get deals funded with limited collateral...deals that would often be rejected by banks using traditional financing.  That’s the good...

Small Businesses are hot….real hot and on the rise in 2018. At the Institute for Business Acquisitions, we feel that there has almost never been a better time to buy a business than right now, and here’s why: CNBC takes a Small Business Confidence poll each quarter,...

In our opinion, at the Institute for Business Acquisitions, seller financing should be an essential part of almost every company acquisition. What is seller financing? Quite simply, it is getting the current business owner (seller) to finance all or a portion of the...

If you’ve decided that buying a business is the path that you should take to become a profitable entrepreneur but don’t know quite where to start, this article is for you. Note:  If you need more information about why you should buy a business instead of starting a...

For the last 4 years now, manufacturing businesses have been hot buys, especially in the $1 Million to $5 Million range.  That trend continued once again in the latest Market Pulse Report by the Pepperdine Private Capital Market project. Craig Everett, PhD, director...

We frequently run across Entrepreneurs who are ready to buy their first business, but they can’t come up with enough cash for the down payment.Now, generally speaking, if your personal wealth is severely limited, we recommend that you save up at least a little bit for...

This is a question that we get frequently at the Institute for Business Acquisitions (I4BA). Well actually, it’s often “Why” would a good business come up for sale? To answer the first question, YES, ABSOLUTELY. Good businesses come up for sale every day all over the...

We have deals and opportunities come to us every day here at the Institute for Business Acquisitions.  While we obviously can’t pursue them all, I think many of them are worth sharing with our community as examples of opportunities that are out there, and how we would...