A sale shouldhand over morethan the keys.
Deal intelligence for small business M&A.Because the transaction is only part of the story.
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Original research on how small businesses are bought, financed and valued.
The Silver Tsunami Is Ageing, Not Arriving
Seven annual Census readings show no surge of sellers building. The share of owners aged 55 or over barely moved. The share past 65 is creeping up — and those owners are already leaving, at about 8% a year.
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Why Does Walking Away Get Harder After the LOI?
A deal's structure adds commitment on a schedule while diligence is supposed to keep the decision open. What fifty years of research says about that tension, new evidence from actual acquisitions, and where the evidence stops.
Do Marshmallows Predict Bad Loans?
An SBA credit line is approved, and then the money sits there. How fast the owner first reaches for it turns out to be one of the cleanest default signals in the public loan file, and it only works where the owner gets to choose.
I'd Rather Find a $500,000 Problem Than a $417 Lie
A problem changes the price. A lie changes the reliability of everything you were told, including the things that made you want the business. Diligence is a sampling exercise, and that is the whole reason the difference matters.
Plain answers to the questions every deal raises.
Short, practical guides on buying, selling and financing a small business. New ones every week.
All articlesWeird economics, diligence insights and practical takeaways for anyone buying, selling or financing a small business.
I’m a CPA based in Tokyo. My background is in accounting and financial analysis inside large institutions, where decisions depend on analytical consistency at every level. Small business M&A has the same requirement and very little of the infrastructure. I built Acquidex to help close that gap.
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