Potential acquirers use 10,001 Hours to perform valuations of their targets.  More often than you might expect, the sel...

Half of of exits aren’t from a sale, but from death, disability, distress, divorce, or partner disagreement the 5 D’...

Dalton, Mass. – For June 2017’s inaugural edition of the Berkshire Business Confidence Index newsletter,  area ...

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Transferabilty lends to sellability. Of course, no one is going to want to buy your business if it isn’t making money....

Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway and famed investor, isn’t like most of us. In one way he’s not like us is...

I go to a lot of investment and business conferences. One conference I went to, in Chicago in about 2008, we had a discu...

In helping business owners accelerate their value, we often utilize a powerful software tool called the Value Builder Sy...

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Allen Harris, founder and CEO of Berkshire Money Management and 10,001 Hours, explains Value Acceleration, a business st...

A lot of this is obvious.  Not necessarily easy, but obvious.  You want to maximize top line growth while watching bot...