What Information Would Be Helpful For You To Know About A Company's Owner?

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searcher University of Virginia-Darden - Darden School of Business Pepperdine University Brigham Young University

WHAT INFORMATION WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR YOU TO KNOW ABOUT A COMPANY'S OWNER?

Before approaching an owner or while negotiating what information would be helpful for you to know about the owner? Age, financial status, network connections, etc.?

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searcher University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - 03/13/2020

Reason for exiting is crucial, and while it is not the most important thing, it ought to be one of the first things you know about him.

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searcher Bentley University Beijing Language and Culture University - 11/29/2020

Totally agree - and sometimes one will have to do some digging to get to the "actual" reason!

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searcher University of Houston St. Mary's University - 03/13/2020

Everything. Search their FB profile. Employees profile, public records, county property records, LinkedIn, BBB profile, on and on.

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professional Providence College - 11/18/2020

Why county property records? Are you looking for signs of distress?

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searcher University of Houston St. Mary's University - 11/28/2020

Sometimes. Other times I found myself just looking for the name of the CEO. Some of these closely held businesses are scarce on public info. So you get creative.

County property records, EDGAR database, Facebook and linked in stalking, every manner of email naming convention you can think of. Industry associations and so on.

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searcher University of Virginia-Darden - Darden School of Business Pepperdine University Brigham Young University - 03/14/2020

How much would it be worth it to a searcher to have all that info in a report?

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searcher University of Houston St. Mary's University - 11/19/2020

I missed this response. It’s pretty difficult to have a canned product that tells a prospective buyer what he wants to know about a given company. There is so much context to it that is hard to translate in an off the shelf product.

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searcher Stockholm School of Economics University of Virginia - 03/16/2020

I would also look at their interaction with their staff; you can tell a lot by the type of business they run and value left behind them when gone.

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searcher - 11/29/2020

There's two reasons people sell: Time or Money, figure it out and make an offer based on that.

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searcher Emory University - Goizueta Business School University of Florida - 11/30/2020

Someone above mentioned staff interaction, which I think would be big. Their personal relationships and connections in the business and with their suppliers/customers and to the degree they can be fully maintained.

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