JohnM, Author at Martinka Consulting

Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

April 7, 2021

Questions and Confidentiality When Exiting

By Jessica Martinka There’s an old song that starts out, “Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.” What about, “Questions, questions, everywhere a question,” when it comes…

JohnM

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Business Buying Increasing Value

March 31, 2021

Business – It’s Not Rocket Science

I have never worked with a business buyer who didn’t want to grow (aka scale) the business they buy. I don’t know if I’ve ever…

JohnM

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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

March 27, 2021

Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. I read two long articles, one in the Seattle Times and the other…

JohnM

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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

March 24, 2021

A Job Disguised as a Business

We’re working on a client grow-by-acquisition project and have found the industry is not only very fragmented, with a lot of small companies, but too…

JohnM

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

March 17, 2021

When the Corporate World Attacks You

By Jessica Martinka Horror stories abound! Both parents working from home, kids taking virtual classes, and bandwidths stretched thin, both internet and personal. The virtual…

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Increasing Value Other

March 10, 2021

Tech and Our Lives

At the end of 2020 The Wall Street Journal had a feature article, co-authored by their four technology and related columnists, titled, “The Tech That…

JohnM

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

March 5, 2021

Getting Your Deal Done

Originally published on ibainc.com blog in February 202! I was honored to have IBA team members Gregory Kovsky and Curt Maier contribute a chapter to…

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Love97

Business Buying

March 3, 2021