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Business Transition Academy

Exit your business on your own terms and timeline, and achieve the financial independence you have worked so hard for!

As a business owner, you have most likely spent all of your time and resources growing your business. Now is the time to reap your reward.

Business Transition Academy delivers the exit planning expertise and strategic guidance you need as a transitioning business owner through our comprehensive exit planning tools, training, and mentoring programs.

We are on a mission to educate and mentor owners like you as you make key business transition decisions that will define your future, as well as the future of your business, family, and employees.

Who We Serve

We are obsessed with teaching ALL owners how to exit their businesses for maximum value on their own terms and timeline. Our affordable memberships provide you with the most comprehensive, impartial exit planning education, best practices, tools, and resources available.

Our book Cashing Out of Your Business – Your Last Great Deal and dynamic curriculum will teach you everything you need to know to plan and execute your deal of a lifetime as you exit your business and achieve your goals.

BTS News

  • Manufacturer Sold and New Owner Expands It

    Manufacturer Sold and New Owner Expands It

    BTS served as advisor in the sale of PlasTech Machining Fabrication, Inc. to DelCam Holdings in 2020...the company has grown substantially, doubling employment and adding capacity to boost future prod

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  • How M&A Will Respond to Next Recession

    How M&A Will Respond to Next Recession

    The takeaway for business owners: Get back to basics. Don’t worry about hyper growth. De-risk your company as much as possible.

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  • Perception vs Reality with Small Businesses

    Perception vs Reality with Small Businesses

    Sometimes the economic picture on the news seems inconsistent with what is happening for many business owners. Nearly every owner we speak to is out straight.

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  • NH-Based Techinical Manufacturing Company Sold

    NH-Based Techinical Manufacturing Company Sold

    Hampshire Controls has a bright future with new ownership. The company was recently sold by Diane Rush, owner and president, to Pillar Imaging and its leader Dr. Michael Pilon.

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  • Be Ready When You Are Ready

    Be Ready When You Are Ready

    When a business owner says it’s time to sell, I ask, “How fast do you want to be out?” The answer I hear most is, “Yesterday.” But sellers underestimate how long the process takes.

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  • Looking at a Sale Through the Right Lens

    Looking at a Sale Through the Right Lens

    Sometimes our vision about the future is blurry because we aren’t considering the whole picture but only parts of it.

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  • 5 Deal Points from the Trenches

    5 Deal Points from the Trenches

    Today I work with clients of Business Transition Strategies who are implementing Growth Through Acquisition strategies. Here are a few observations from working on a wide variety of projects.

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  • Tax Changes Could Hurt Net Proceeds

    Tax Changes Could Hurt Net Proceeds

    Changes proposed to the capital gains tax suggest they may need to get 30% more in a transaction in the future just to net the same value they would get today.

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  • Good Ideas From Shark Tank Deal

    Good Ideas From Shark Tank Deal

    One of my colleagues in Cornerstone Alliance was front and center in a recent Shark Tank exercise. A business that had been sold was put in front of four potential buyer groups.

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  • Buyer Trends in Lower Mid-Market

    Buyer Trends in Lower Mid-Market

    Other businesses are a significant market for companies being sold within the lower mid-market.

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Case Studies

  • Precision Machining Company

    Initially, liquidation was a serious consideration. It would offer a quick exit but would hurt loyal employees and disrupt the customers who had come to rely on its quality production.

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  • Green Product Company

    Our client owners could dig in for the long haul…However, this would take five years or more. Owners simply lacked the horsepower to do it.

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  • Water Purification Company and Young Buyers

    Owners decided they wanted to retire. They also wanted to be fair to the staff who had been loyal to them. Could the company be sold, the staff retained and the facility remain in use?

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  • Magnetics Company with High Profile Customers

    (T)he manufacturer would need to focus on growing EBITDA to capture interest from major strategic buyers and achieve a higher multiple of earnings.

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