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Selling or Passing On a Company: Preparation, Diligence, Story

Selling, retiring or handing a business down are the same question in different outfits. Here are our articles on preparing for it and on what a buyer will really check.

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How to Pass a Business On So It Survives: the Order, and What Breaks

Latest 04. 11. 2026 · Buy, Sell, Build

How to Pass a Business On So It Survives: the Order, and What Breaks

Children, a partner or your managers? How to choose, in what order to hand over, and what breaks when nobody inspects what the successor inherits.

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The decision ripens quietly

Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to sell, and the quiet signs that the process has begun are in Nobody Wakes Up One Morning and Decides to Sell. Selling, retiring and handing down are one question: Before You Sell, Retire, or Hand It Down. A transaction is a tool, not a strategy, so diagnose the business before you hire bankers: Before You Hire Bankers, Diagnose the Business.

What lowers the price

70% of small businesses that look for a buyer never find one: The Number Nobody Tells You: 70%. A business that depends on one person is not independent yet, and buyers price that in: Founder Dependency. "Anyone could buy this" means no one will, and how to find who would pay a premium is in Buyer Universe. Why tech companies are valued on different math, and why "we use AI" does not mean what buyers think: Why Tech Companies Get Valued on Different Math and The AI Wrapper Problem.

Buyer diligence

A buyer's auditors will read your code and contracts. Who owns the code, open source, old breaches: what moves the price and what to fix first is in What a Buyer's Technical Due Diligence Will Find. A real review needs people with long deal experience and analysts who read someone else's code end to end; it is not free and not fast. A year of preparation before a sale is ideal, four to six months the minimum. How to build the data room, in what order and what goes wrong: How to Prepare a Data Room.

The presentation and the pitch deck

A buyer will check every slide. How a sale deck differs from a CIM and what has to stand behind each claim: How to Present Your Company to a Buyer. What goes on each slide of an investor deck and why it rarely decides the round: Pitch Deck for Investors. We make the pitch deck last, once there is a ready product behind it.

Passing the business on

Children, a partner or your managers? How to choose, in what order to hand over and what breaks when nobody inspects what the successor inherits: How to Pass a Business On So It Survives.

On the buyer's side

A digital product is a system whose problems become yours at closing. How to audit revenue, code, data, SEO and people before you buy: How to Audit a Digital Product Before You Buy It. What to do with the website after an acquisition and why not to redesign too early: What Happens to the Website After an Acquisition?.

Cost and how to work with us

Sessions give an assessment and a direction: technical due diligence $1,500, full review from $7,500; exit and succession readiness $1,500, preparation program from $5,000; a digital ownership and debt audit from $1,000. The cost of the work that follows is set once we have seen the product. Services: technical due diligence session, exit and succession readiness, digital ownership audit.