Welcome to my weekly articles on business building. These weekly articles are designed to stimulate thinking about the process of creating a valuable business, about getting yourself personally prepared, and about getting your business exit ready and exit attractive for that future buyer. They are written and delivered in a progressive manner designed around creating a solid foundational basis for an owner to create an asset that has realizable value.
In this article I am introducing the idea that business, at its core, is simple. To create successful business, you must understand that there are only 3 core value creation functions in a business: you need to get business, you need to deliver on that business, and you need to support that business. Understanding what each means and how well you do in each function will determine how well your business runs, and how profitable it will be.
Most owners get one chance to get it right and being ill prepared should not be an option, yet most owners cannot sell the business they built (only 1 in 10 are actually successfully) because they did not build a salable asset. If you must sell your business to fund your future lifestyle, ask yourself – do you want to be the one that does, or one of the nine who could not?
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