Posts tagged middle market business owners
Advice for Widows: What to Do When Your Business-Owning Spouse Passes Away
Advice for Widows: What to Do When Your Business-Owning Spouse Passes Away

As you can imagine, I’ve seen almost every situation over 35 years when it comes to people needing to sell a middle-market family business. I see new reasons all the time, which certainly keeps this business fresh for me year after year. But a situation I see all too often is that of the surviving spouse when a business owner has passed away.

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selling your business, family business, business brokerTrip Holmeswidow of family business owner, middle market business owners, untimely death of business owner, retirement age, succession planning, exit strategy, business broker, M&A advisor, accountant, CPA, financial planner, corporate attorney, estate planning attorney, commercial banker, high-touch service, Sabre Capital, Trip Holmes
Who Will Buy Your Business?
Who Will Buy Your Business?

As an advisor to middle-market family business owners, I routinely help founders plan for their eventual exit and retirement. There are many elements to building and executing on an exit strategy. You need to develop goals that are aligned with those of your estate plan, you need to plan for the growth of your business over time, and you need to develop succession and transition plans as well.

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exit strategy, selling your business, family businessTrip Holmesmiddle-market family-owned businesses, founders, estat plan, next generation family business owners, National Center for the Middle Market, middle market business owners, children of business owners, employee stock ownership program, employee ownership, private equity, individual investors, competitors, exit strategy, business planning, Sabre Capital