Sell Your Business
Most owners sell a business once. MyExec runs the whole sale, from valuation to closing, and finds the buyer who sees the value you have built.
Business Sales Are Won and Lost in the Details
Every owner thinking about a sale carries the same questions. What is my business actually worth? Who is the right buyer? What happens to my people? How do I keep this quiet until it is done? And most importantly: how do I get this right, the first and only time I do it?
Those questions are exactly the right ones, and answering them is what we do. You spent years building this, and the sale is where that work pays off. Our job is making sure you get the maximum value from it: a clear asking price backed by evidence and data, a process that runs smoothly and efficiently while you continue to run the company, and a deal that reflects the full value of what you built, on favorable terms. The goal is an outcome you feel good about at closing and, more importantly, after it, so you step into the next phase of your life with confidence.
How We Sell Your Business
We manage the whole transaction for you: the valuation, the preparation, the buyer search, the negotiation, and the push through diligence to a signed close. You stay focused on running the company, which is exactly what keeps it worth buying.
Sellers who walk away with less than they should have usually failed at one of four things: getting a full offer, keeping that offer intact, protecting the business during the sale, or getting the deal closed at all. Each one costs real money. Our process is built around all four.
Get the full price
With one interested buyer, their opening offer anchors the whole negotiation. We bring several qualified buyers to the table at the same time, so the market sets your price and competing offers push it up.
Keep the full price
Most value is lost after the handshake. In diligence, buyers reprice the deal when they find something the seller did not get ahead of. We stress-test your financials against the questions buyers will ask before anyone sees them, so the number you agree to is the number you close at.
Protect the business while you sell it
A sale process can hurt the company it is selling: leaks that rattle your team, competitors fishing for information, months burned on buyers who were never going to close. We screen every party for real interest and real money before they learn who you are, and the business runs normally the whole time.
Actually get to closing
Time kills deals. Every week a sale drifts, something can change: the market, the buyer’s appetite, your own numbers. We run the process on a schedule, keep every party moving, and drive it to the finish.
The Process of Selling Your Business
Eight steps, from the first conversation to a closed and funded deal.
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Valuation and baseline
Everything starts with a defensible number. Our valuation professionals prepare a formal valuation and walk you through what is driving the number. Every later decision gets measured against this number. See your estimate of value first.
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Goals and objectives
Before anything gets packaged, we get clear on what matters to you: price, timing, your team, your role after close, and what you want life to look like on the other side.
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Readiness and cleanup
With your goals set, we get the financials, the records, and the story into shape before anyone looks. Check your sale readiness.
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Buyer map and marketing materials
We build a targeted list of the buyers most likely to pay for what you built, then prepare a short anonymous profile and a fuller confidential package.
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Confidential outreach
We approach buyers under non-disclosure and screen hard before anything sensitive is shared.
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Offers and meetings
We bring qualified buyers to the table, run the management meetings, and use competing interest to sharpen the price and the terms.
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Letter of intent and diligence
We negotiate the headline terms, then manage the buyer’s diligence so momentum holds and nothing surprises anyone on your side.
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Closing
We coordinate the final agreements with your attorney and accountant and drive the deal through signature and funding.
is the typical run from start to close. Clean books and early preparation move you toward the short end.
Why Owners Choose MyExec
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Deal Experience Across the Whole Spectrum
Our advisors have worked corporate M&A transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, small business sales worth a few hundred thousand, and plenty in between. That range matters: the discipline built running complex deals with sophisticated buyers comes standard on yours.
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We Know the Story Your Numbers Are Telling
Every seller has their financials before the buyer does. The edge is understanding them the way a buyer will: why the business is worth what it is, which figures carry the value, and how to defend each one under pressure. That is our corporate finance and valuation background at work, on your side of the table for the whole negotiation.
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We Are Entrepreneurs Too
We run our own firm, and between us we have completed the sale of our own business and advised numerous multi-million dollar sales. The advice you get comes from people who have made these decisions with their own money on the line and who know what the process feels like from your seat.
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Your Sale Is Our Priority
We take on a small number of engagements at a time, on purpose. When we take your sale, it becomes a priority for the whole firm: quick responses, the partner running your deal personally in every conversation, and the individualized attention a transaction this important deserves.
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Invested in Your Outcome, on Your Timeline
The point of the engagement is the best result for you as the owner. If that means telling you to wait, or telling you exactly what would make the deal bigger before going to market, that is what you will hear, along with the plan. When the answer is go, we go at full strength.
Confidentiality Is Built Into Every Step
Confidentiality is paramount in every transaction we run. We understand the consequences a leaked sale can have on a business: employees get nervous, customers ask questions, competitors talk, and the value you are trying to capture starts to erode before you get a chance to negotiate. Protecting the company while it is on the market, and setting up a smooth handoff for the new owner, is a core focus, so we treat confidentiality as a requirement at every stage.
Anonymous first
Buyers see an anonymous profile before they ever learn your name.
NDA before anything
Nothing is shared without a signed non-disclosure agreement.
Secure data room
Sensitive documents move through encrypted file sharing and a secure data room, so nothing travels as an email attachment. Access is limited to the people we approve, with a record of exactly who sees what.
Released in stages
Information is released in stages, tied to how serious and how qualified each buyer has proven to be.
Most Businesses That Go to Market Never Sell. Prepared Ones Do.
That figure comes from the Exit Planning Institute’s owner-readiness research. The rest sit, go stale, or quietly come back off the market. The pattern behind the ones that close is consistent: clean numbers, a real process, and an owner who started before they had to.
1You are ready
Clear on your goals, your timing, and what you want life to look like after the sale.
2The business runs without you
A company that can operate and grow without depending entirely on the owner.
3Buyers are willing to pay
A market of qualified buyers with real money for what you have built.
The right window to sell
When all three line up, the process delivers its full value.
You do not need all three perfect to start the conversation. The most useful first step is simply knowing where you stand: your number and your gaps. That step commits you to nothing.
Where Does Your Business Stand?
Two free tools for owners thinking about a sale. See how ready your business is to sell and what to fix first, or get an estimate of what it is worth. The assessment and the advanced valuation estimate each email you a full report.
Draft preview: the email step is simulated and nothing is sent.
Free · About 5 minutes · No financials needed
See your business the way a buyer will
Your readiness score
How ready the business is across the six areas a buyer reviews, plus your own readiness as the owner.
The deal risks a buyer would find
The issues that change the price or the terms in diligence, so you can see them before a buyer does.
Where to start
Your weakest areas, what to do about each one, and roughly how much work it takes.
Multiple-choice answers about how your business runs. Your answers stay in your browser until you ask for the report, and we keep them confidential.
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Your sale readiness
Sale readiness score
Your readiness as the owner
The six areas a buyer reviews
Deal risks a buyer would find
These come up in diligence whatever the overall score, and they usually change the price or the terms.
Where to start
Your weakest areas, what pulled each one down, and where to go deeper.
Your next steps as the owner
Get your full readiness report by email
The report covers each area in detail: what you told us, what a buyer checks, and what to do about it. It lays out a prep plan in the order the work should happen, and what to take to your CPA, attorney and financial advisor.
No obligation. Your answers are kept confidential.
Prefer to talk it through? Book a 30-minute call instead.
Know your readiness, now see the number. Our business valuation calculator gives you an estimate of value in about a minute, and the advanced version shows what each change would be worth.
See What It's WorthWant a number too? Switch to the business valuation calculator. Before your business goes to market, our valuation professionals prepare a formal valuation, and it becomes the baseline for every decision in the sale.
Free · Quick estimate about a minute · Advanced 5 to 8 minutes
See what your business could be worth
Your estimated value range
A low, midpoint and high value, based on what businesses in your industry and size actually sell for.
Where you sit in your industry's range
How your growth, and in the advanced estimate how your business runs, moves the multiple a buyer would pay.
What would raise the number
The advanced estimate adds your business readiness score, the changes worth the most in dollars, and the full report by email.
Quick estimate: six questions and your value range on screen, with no report. Advanced estimate: five questions about how your business runs and up to three years of numbers, with the full report by email. Your figures stay in your browser until you ask for a report.
Your estimate of value
Where the range sits
Business readiness score
How ready the business is to command a strong multiple, based on how it runs and how it's growing.
Your trend
Walk through your estimate with our valuation professionals
A 30-minute results call. We'll look at what is driving your number and what would move it. There is no cost and no obligation.
Get the full report by email
No obligation.
Your report is on its way
This is an estimate of value. Before your business goes to market, our valuation professionals prepare a formal valuation, and it becomes the baseline for every decision in the sale. How our valuations work. Want to know what to fix first? Take the Sale Readiness Assessment.
Buying a Business Instead?
Acquisition can be the fastest way to grow, and it is also the easiest place to overpay.
The seller knows the business inside and out; you are the one betting on it. We put the same deal discipline to work for you as the buyer: what the target is really worth, whether its numbers survive scrutiny, how to structure an offer that protects you if they do not, and what the combined company looks like the day after. You grow, and you go in knowing exactly what you are paying for.
Questions Owners Ask Us
What does an M&A advisor actually do?
We run the sale of your business end to end: pricing it, preparing it, finding and screening buyers, managing their diligence, and negotiating the terms. We represent only you in the deal, and we work as one team with your management team, attorney, and CPA, coordinating everyone’s piece so nothing slows the deal or falls through the cracks.
How is this different from hiring a business broker?
A broker typically lists a business and works the inquiries that come in. We run an active, managed process: a targeted buyer search, confidential outreach, competing offers, and hands-on negotiation through closing. For a founder-led company in the $5M to $50M range, the difference tends to show up directly in the price and the terms.
How long does it take to sell a business?
Most sales in this range take six to twelve months from start to close, based on published sell-side benchmarks. Clean financials and organized records shorten it. Disorganized books and late surprises stretch it.
What is my business worth?
Answering that is where every engagement starts. For a quick read, our business valuation calculator gives you a free estimate of value in about a minute. For a number you can take to market, our valuation professionals prepare a formal valuation, a calculation of value or a conclusion of value, and walk you through what is driving the number. You can start with the valuation alone and decide afterward whether to go further.
What should I prepare before selling my business?
Three to five years of clean financial statements and tax returns, a clear picture of owner compensation and one-time expenses, key customer and supplier contracts, and organized corporate records. Buyers also look hard at customer concentration, how dependent the business is on you, and the working capital the business needs to run. The less a buyer has to ask for, the faster and steadier diligence goes, and we help you assemble all of it during readiness and cleanup.
How do I know if my business is ready to sell?
A business is ready when a buyer can confirm the cash flow, see it continuing without you, and find nothing in diligence that changes the price. In practice that means clean, reconciled financials, a team that runs the day to day, customers spread across more than a few accounts, and contracts, leases and records in order. Our Sale Readiness Assessment checks each of these in about five minutes and emails you a full report with a prep plan.
How do you keep the sale confidential?
Buyers first see an anonymous profile. Anything sensitive is shared only after a signed non-disclosure agreement, only with buyers we have screened, and only in stages you approve, through encrypted file sharing and a secure data room where access is limited and tracked.
What does it cost to work with you?
Every engagement is scoped to your business, your goals, and the transaction. After a 30-minute call, we send a proposal with the scope, the timeline, and the fees, so you know exactly what to expect before any work begins.
We are not ready to sell yet. Is it too early to talk?
No, and the earlier conversations are often the most valuable ones. A year or more of runway leaves time to strengthen the numbers and shrink the risks a buyer will price against. A valuation now gives you the baseline and the plan.
Do you only handle sales?
Most of our transaction work is sell side, representing owners in the sale of their business. We also advise acquiring owners through buy-side engagements, with the same valuation and deal discipline.
Ready to Talk About Selling Your Business?
Tell us about your business, your goals, and your timeline. We will walk you through how we would run your sale, give you an honest view of market value, and you can decide whether we are the right fit.