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Know What Your Business Is Worth — And What Could Stand Between You and a Successful Sale
Get a directional market value estimate, assess your deal readiness, and identify the issues a buyer is likely to care about — before you enter a formal sale process.
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What you receive
More than a number
- Estimated Market Value
- A directional market value range based on earnings, industry characteristics, and company-specific factors.
- Deal Readiness Score
- An assessment of how prepared the business appears to be for buyer scrutiny and transaction diligence.
- Transaction Risks
- Issues such as owner dependency, customer concentration, financial documentation quality, and management depth.
- Three Priority Actions
- What may be worth addressing before going to market, ranked by impact.
The process
Selling a business is a process — not an event
Most owners have never gone through a sale before. Knowing the stages ahead of time — and where you currently stand — makes the eventual process far less uncertain.
- Prepare
- Valuation
- Positioning
- Marketing
- Buyer Outreach
- LOI
- Due Diligence
- Closing
Timing
The best time to prepare for a sale is before you need to sell
Buyers evaluate more than your top-line numbers. The factors below shape both your valuation and how smoothly a transaction goes.
- Owner dependency
- Financial reporting quality
- Customer concentration
- Management depth
- Recurring revenue
- Documented systems
Behind Vafaro
Built from real M&A experience.
Built by an advisor who has worked on M&A transactions from $5 million to $320 million, Vafaro gives business owners access to the kinds of questions that come up during an actual transaction — before they commit to a sale process. It's meant to be the resource an owner wishes they'd had before their first conversation with an advisor.
James Loftis — Independent M&A Advisor