Your Business Today
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The Wait-and-Sell Plan
The haircut prices everything a projection ignores: a soft M&A window, a lost key account, your own energy. Owners who have sold once set this higher than owners who have not.
Taxes, Fees, and Your Alternatives
Consulting, a new role, board seats, or simply what the proceeds cannot buy back: your time. Set it to zero if you would fully retire.
The Two Paths, in Today's Dollars
Sell now (PV)
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Wait and sell (PV)
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The edge
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Break-even growth
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Price today
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Price later
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Year-by-Year & Sensitivity Full Report
The Wait-and-Sell Path, Year by Year
Sensitivity: Advantage to Waiting, by Growth and Exit Multiple
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Growth moves in the rows, the exit multiple in the columns. Green favors waiting, red favors selling now. Notice how much of the grid turns red with one notch of multiple compression: timing the market cuts both ways.