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How to Protect Your Equity When Your Business Is Thirsty for Cash
April 1, 2025 | By QWFS
4 Reasons Why It’s Better to Own a Big Chunk of a Small Company
February 1, 2021 | By QWFS
Being Stingy With Your Equity
September 1, 2019 | By QWFS
Why You Should Exit While You’re Ahead – A Cautionary Tale
June 1, 2019 | By QWFS
The Biggest Mistake Owners Make When Selling
September 1, 2018 | By QWFS
Successful Entrepreneurs Can Be The Doer And The Dealmaker
April 2, 2018 | By QWFS
How To Avoid Disappointment When It's Time To Cash Out
February 1, 2018 | By QWFS
The Surprising Secret To A Big Exit
June 1, 2017 | By QWFS
4 Traps To Avoid When Selling Your Company
June 1, 2015 | By QWFS
Business Valuation
April 8, 2015 | By QWFS
What a Study of 14,000 Businesses Reveals About How You Should Not Be Spending Your Time
March 9, 2015 | By QWFS
8 Questions You’ll Be Asked When Selling Your Business
January 1, 2015 | By QWFS
A Blood Pressure Test For Your Business
January 1, 2015 | By QWFS
5 Ways to Attract the Attention of An Acquirer
August 4, 2014 | By QWFS
Exiting Tips From One Of The Top 40 Under 40
October 1, 2018 | By QWFS
How Your Age Shapes Your Exit Plan
January 1, 2016 | By QWFS
What Your Birth Certificate Says About Your Plan
January 2, 2012 | By QWFS
3 Things to Consider When You Hit “The Freedom Point”
November 1, 2020 | By QWFS
5 Reasons Why Now Might Be The Right Time To Sell
September 1, 2017 | By QWFS
Why Now Is The Riskiest Time To Own Your Business
August 1, 2017 | By QWFS
One Way To Decide When To Sell
May 1, 2017 | By QWFS
The Downside of Just Milking It
December 1, 2015 | By QWFS
What’s So Special About the Million-Dollar Mark?
January 7, 2015 | By QWFS
Should You Sell Your Business Now?
November 1, 2012 | By QWFS
9 Warning Signs You’re a Hub-and-Spoke Owner
April 2, 2012 | By QWFS
The danger of market timing the sale of your business
December 1, 2011 | By QWFS
Core Values as a Growth Catalyst: The $14 Million Journey of Sauceda Industries
November 1, 2023 | By QWFS
3 (Creative) Ways to Get Your Business to Run Without You
October 1, 2023 | By QWFS
Hidden Value: A 3-Part Approach to Hiring High-Potential Employees
September 1, 2023 | By QWFS
What to Do When Your Clients Want You
August 1, 2023 | By QWFS
How to Increase the Value of a Distribution Business
July 1, 2023 | By QWFS
One Overlooked Metric That Could Transform Your Company’s Value
March 1, 2023 | By QWFS
5 Strategies for Identifying Innovative Candidates to Replace Yourself as Founder
January 1, 2023 | By QWFS
How to Get Your Customers to Pay for New Ideas
November 1, 2022 | By QWFS
5 Ways to Get Your Business to Run Without You
June 1, 2022 | By QWFS
3 Invisible Gates That Stop Most Companies Flat
March 1, 2022 | By QWFS
How One Founder Beat Billion-Dollar Competitors by Doing Less
September 1, 2025 | By QWFS
How to Jack Up the Value of a Commoditized Business
August 1, 2025 | By QWFS
The Leadership Style That Builds Loyalty—and Destroys Company Value
July 1, 2025 | By QWFS
A Strong Business but a Modest Multiple
May 1, 2025 | By QWFS
How to Double Your Chances of a Premium Acquisition Offer
April 1, 2025 | By QWFS
The Power of Working on, Not in, Your Business
December 1, 2024 | By QWFS
Listening & Leveling: How Customer Feedback Turned a $50 Idea into a 7-Figure Business
October 1, 2024 | By QWFS
From Gretzky to Popovich: What Sports Legends Teach Us About Business Value
August 1, 2024 | By QWFS
Big vs. Valuable
April 1, 2024 | By QWFS
The Switzerland Structure
December 1, 2023 | By QWFS
Run Your Business Like You’re Going on Maternity (or Paternity) Leave
December 1, 2021 | By QWFS
One Stop Shop
November 1, 2021 | By QWFS
How Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Weakness
October 1, 2021 | By QWFS
How to Avoid the Switzerland Valuation Discount
September 1, 2021 | By QWFS
Stop Selling Your Time
August 1, 2021 | By QWFS
Why the Future of Your Business Is Critical to Its Value
June 1, 2021 | By QWFS
The Hidden Danger of Cross-Selling
May 1, 2021 | By QWFS
10 Resolutions That Will Boost the Value of Your Company
January 4, 2021 | By QWFS
The Most Critical Factor in Achieving Your Goals May Surprise You
October 1, 2020 | By QWFS
How To Inoculate Your Business From The Dangers Ahead
February 1, 2020 | By QWFS
The Start-Up Paradox
January 2, 2020 | By QWFS
Ownership Has Its Privileges
November 1, 2019 | By QWFS
Run Your Private Company Like It’s Public
July 1, 2019 | By QWFS
The One Number Owners Need to Stop Focusing On
January 1, 2019 | By QWFS
Growing Fast? Here's What's Likely To Kill Your Company
May 1, 2018 | By QWFS
One Tweak That Can (Instantly) Add Millions To The Value Of Your Business
January 1, 2018 | By QWFS
3 Ways To Make Your Company More Valuable Than Your Industry Peers
July 1, 2017 | By QWFS
The Anatomy of a Successful Exit
March 1, 2017 | By QWFS
The Downside of Selling Someone Else’s Product
February 1, 2017 | By QWFS
Market Share vs. Addressable Market
December 1, 2016 | By QWFS
How much goodwill do you have in your business?
October 1, 2016 | By QWFS
Thinking Vs. Doing: The Owner’s Dilemma
August 1, 2016 | By QWFS
Rich vs. Famous
May 2, 2016 | By QWFS
How to Get Rich in 3 (Really Difficult) Steps
October 6, 2015 | By QWFS
6 Reasons Not to Diversify
February 4, 2015 | By QWFS
8 ways to know if you have a job or own a business
April 3, 2014 | By QWFS
Will your business be more valuable this time next year?
October 1, 2014 | By QWFS
Hidden Goal
September 27, 2013 | By QWFS
The Curator: How to thrive as a middleman
May 31, 2013 | By QWFS
The C-word and 7 Others to Avoid at Work
September 3, 2012 | By QWFS
Prevention Is Better Than Cure
July 2, 2012 | By QWFS
The Recurring Revenue Bump
June 1, 2023 | By QWFS
3 Ways To Flip Repeat Customers into Subscribers
April 20, 2021 | By QWFS
How to Turn Repeat Customers into Subscribers
March 2, 2021 | By QWFS
How to Create a Recurring Revenue Model That Appeals to Customers
December 1, 2020 | By QWFS
The Simplest Form Of Recurring Revenue Virtually Every Business Can Adopt
February 28, 2020 | By QWFS
Why Companies are Adopting Subscription Billing Models
March 1, 2019 | By QWFS
The Surprising Way Companies Like Netflix and Amazon Conduct Market Research
December 1, 2018 | By QWFS
Creating Sticky Customers
November 1, 2018 | By QWFS
The Automatic Customer White Paper
October 27, 2017 | By QWFS
3 Surprising Reasons To Offer A Subscription
April 1, 2017 | By QWFS
How Three Moves Quadrupled the Value of this Business
September 1, 2016 | By QWFS
Have You Discovered Your Recurring Revenue Model?
June 1, 2016 | By QWFS
90 Days That Will Define Your Business Forever
November 1, 2015 | By QWFS
Billion Dollar Hiding Inside
August 29, 2013 | By QWFS
Hierarchy of Recurring Revenue
March 1, 2013 | By QWFS
8 Questions You'll Be Asked
January 2, 2013 | By QWFS
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