Enterprise value
Enterprise value is what a business is worth to a buyer or a successor. It rises with profit quality, predictability, growth capacity, and independence from the owner. It falls when the company is a well-paid job wearing a corporate structure.
How do you increase enterprise value before selling a business?
Increase enterprise value before a sale by improving profit quality, making cash predictable, reducing owner dependency, documenting how the company runs, and showing that growth will not collapse when the founder steps back. Buyers pay for a future that does not require the seller.
Some owners want capital. Some want a partner. Some want a path to step back over five years. Some want to sell. Those are different jobs, and they all depend on the same underlying asset: a company that performs without heroics.
We help the owner understand whether the company is ready, what would make it more valuable, and what kind of transaction actually matches the life they want afterward.
Succession is a reduction in owner dependency measured over time.
Signs this work is needed
- A sale is five years away and nothing is being built for it
- Lenders ask questions the company cannot answer cleanly
- The owner is the brand, the rainmaker, and the operator
- Family succession is assumed but not designed
How do you increase enterprise value before selling a business?
Increase enterprise value before a sale by improving profit quality, making cash predictable, reducing owner dependency, documenting how the company runs, and showing that growth will not collapse when the founder steps back. Buyers pay for a future that does not require the seller.
Who is capital & strategic transactions for?
Owner-led and founder-led U.S. companies that want the business to perform better and depend less on the owner.
