Exit Strategies

When business is booming, the last thing you want to consider is who’ll take over when you sell up.

Exit Strategies

You've grown your business to maturity over the past few years and are now thinking of selling up, but how best to do it? Lesley Stalker, tax partner at professional services firm Robert James Partnership, outlines the key considerations.

Exit Strategies

A spin-out that has successfully negotiated its start-up and early stage funding may well have a varied group of investors. This can include the originating university, one or more business angels, venture capitalists as well as the academic entrepreneurs themselves.

Exit Strategies

The difficulty of raising venture capital in recent years has made things much tougher for the entrepreneurial academic looking to turn a scientific breakthrough into a commercial business. However, for a research team that is really convinced that it has a world-beating product on its hands, it is possible to make the transition, but several success factors have to be in place.

Exit Strategies

You've worked long and hard to build your business into a successful and saleable concern, now how do you determine its value? GrowthBusiness experts answer the burning question - So, what is my company actually worth?

Exit Strategies

Many companies owe their success to the wisdom and cash injection of an outside investor, but what can you do if your shareholder is no longer the right backer for your business?