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Home / Video / Deal Insight Video Series: When is the right time to sell a business?


Deal Insight Series:

When is the right time to sell a business?




In this video of our Deal Insight Series, we talk to serial entrepreneur Jonathan Jay about the right time to sell a business.

For over 20 years, Jonathan has bought and sold companies, restructured groups, bought out competitors and successfully completed private equity deals both buy-side and sell side. In this video mini series he shares his deal insights with us.


The transcript of the interview follows:

How do you know when it’s the right time to sell your business?

I think most business owners hang on to their businesses for far too long and when they look back with benefit of hindsight, they say I owned the business let’s say for example 10 years but in actual fact the last 5 years were pretty much the same so I could have sold 5 years ago and it really wouldn’t have been any worse or any better than selling 5 years later, except 5 years of my life has gone and of course...


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Jonathan Jay is the founder of The Dealmaker’s Academy.


Business Sale Report have been providing our members with business acquisition opportunities and insightful resources since 1995.


For more information on selling a business take a look our other articles:

- Selling a business: it’s all in the timing

- Exit strategies: plan for the door from day one

- How to negotiate the sale of your business

- Selling a business? Why you might want to consider a private equity buyer

- How to make your business an attractive acquisition target – research from 9,000 private companies

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