Selling your business is probably the most significant financial and professional event in your entire life. The process can be intimidating and complex, however. This guide addresses the basic questions most business owners have about selling their business. This is a simple, clear guide to help you understand the issues that arise when considering the sale of your company. The process of selling involves not only time and money, but your hopes, dreams, ambitions, pride, security, fear, anxiety and more than a little bit of ego. This book was written by business owners who have purchased and sold companies themselves. As consultants and brokers, they have helped hundreds of business leaders and entrepreneurs build better companies, and transition them to new ownership. We all hate to make decisions with insufficient information because it makes us feel uncomfortable and insecure. This guide will help you become more educated so that you can make an informed decision about selling your company.
John F. Dini, Small Business Ownership Expert
John F. Dini is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on small business ownership. He is a consultant and coach to hundreds of business owners, CEOs and Presidents of companies. John is an outlier in coaching business owners, having achieved the incredible feat of delivering over 10,000 hours of face-to-face, personal advice to entrepreneurs.
Mr. Dini is the author of 11 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About Selling Your Business, now in its second edition. He is a serial entrepreneur currently operating his 9th company, and has conducted business in all 50 United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Asia.
John founded and operates the most successful peer group franchise in North America, overseeing 15 monthly meetings of business owners' groups under the auspices of The Alternative Board®. He has a BS in Accounting, is a Certified MBA, and holds six additional certifications in exit planning, business brokerage, behavioral analysis, medical practice management, facilitation and coaching.
Mr. Dini writes numerous articles on small business topics for newspapers, magazines, and in his own blog www.awakeat2oclock.com . He speaks frequently to business groups and national associations, and is a 10-year member of Jim Blasingame's "Braintrust." He also appears regularly on "The Small Business Advocate" nationally syndicated radio program as an expert in the issues of small business ownership.
