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What is the Sales Value of my Small Business?
The first question most business owners ask me is “what is the value of my small business?” This article provides a simple way to value small businesses that are typically owner operated with revenues under $3,000,000.

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How a powerful branding program can remove the pain of an identity crisis in 27 simple steps
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IDENTITY CRISIS. * Poor market/product awareness * Weak client retention, no loyalty * Inadequate lead flow * Long selling cycles * Low company valuation, shareholder anxiety
How To Valuate Your Business
The venture capitalists will usually look at your projected, or pro forma, earnings 3 to 5 years from the point of their investment. From there they will deduct a 30% annual return that they expect to receive and will subtract a further percentage for the fact that you are a private and therefore non liquid company. This is known as the pre-money valuation.
Take 5: Keys to increasing value of a business owner’s estate
Just as talented top stars are key to the success of any theatrical production, the strength of a company’s top stars – its management team – determines up to 30 percent of its value. Although most business owners know that sales, target markets, competition and other factors contribute to valuation, many don’t realize the bottom-line value of management teams. Fewer still understand that the most effective way to strengthen their management team – and ultimately achieve their goal of increased estate value – isn’t necessarily through expensive classes, trust-building ropes and ladders courses, or highly paid execs; rather, business owners who learn how to ally human and organizational capital – in other words, people and strategy – are the ones who will see valuation skyrocket.

Software Patents: Time for a Change
I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. I don’t have much conviction that it really does stop competitors, but I do know the rule of thumb that every patent will add $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Yet the software patent process is a mess. I say this with conviction even after I survived the process, and have a software patent pending.

Financials for Business Owners: More Than A Look In The Rear View Mirror
Financial reports are the least understood piece of business information for most business owners. Yet everyone expects a business owner to understand his financial reports. Banks want them and they're needed to prepare tax returns. If you're not an accountant, you probably don't know how to use them to manage your business. Accounting is the language of business. The reports tell the story of how well your business is performing. Once you know what your financial reports can tell you, your accountant can provide the information in a format that makes sense and is quick and easy to read, even for a non-accountant! This is the first in a series of articles that will put business owners back in control of their company and reduce the stress that comes from not being certain how well your business is performing.

Importance of a business valuation when selling your business
A great starting point if you are seriously considering selling your business is getting a valuation. Depending on the business valuation, your next steps may be getting advice from your accountant on how much you keep and how much will go in taxes so you know you truly wish to sell. But this article is about the importance of a business valuation prior to trying to sell your business.
Basics of Credit Reports and Background Checks
Many employers would like to have a credit report before hiring, However, for job applicants, a credit report can seem like an invasion of privacy and unfair. The bottom-line is that employers need to approach credit report with caution and only use them if there is a business necessity, and further understand that here can be errors or items not related to employment. Job applicants also have rights when it comes to credit reports. Job applicants need to understand that credit scores are not part of an employment credit report and that employers do not request credit reports just to find ways not to hire. A credit report is only requested once a candidate is a finalist and there are certain positions where a requesting a credit report does make sense. This article surveys the use of credit reports and hiring.

Startup Valuation: 3 Tips For Putting A Price On Your Company
When raising angel or venture capital, startup founders are often concerned with questions about the valuation of their company. Putting a value on an early stage company-- especially one with very little or no revenue and negative cash flow-- is difficult to do, since most traditional valuation methods do not work well for startups. In this article, we discuss how startup companies are valued by investors and how you should set a valuation range when dealing with seed, angel, or VC investors.

Training Nonprofit Board Members to Read and Understand Financial Reports
One of the items board members are responsible for is to monitor the financial situation of the organization. As such, board members should be familiar with the types of financial reports the organization uses to demonstrate its financial standing. This article identifies the types of financial reports most commonly used by nonprofits, and stresses the importance of training board members to read and understand financial reports.

Opportunity Valuation Gives Direction to Strategic Planning
n corporate strategic planning and, let’s face it, in life itself we have to choose our battles. As much as we try to stretch our limited resources, the fact remains that they’re still limited. In our strategic planning approach, we call the process of choosing our battles “opportunity valuation.” And by the way, choosing our battles isn’t a negative; it merely refers to the fact that we must select the opportunities (targeted outcomes) that will earn our limited energy and resources. In our proprietary planning process, known as Plan4, opportunity valuation combats the behavior of many organizations that bite off more than they can chew and suffer for it. Opportunity valuation provides a structure for measuring the relative value of potential outcomes so the organization can move forward with confidence and realism.

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