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What Is Your Business Worth? |
Find out how to value your privately held business.
Most financial professionals will admit there's as much qualitative input as there is quantitative number-crunching when it comes to performing valuations. Even when two valuators do agree on the methodology, they may vary on the assumptions used in that model and then ... |
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Contracts - the Basics |
Small business owners tend to shy away from signing any contracts, but this is a risky way to do business.
When you are making a major product or service sale or purchase, you need to get the details of the transaction in writing. If you don't, you will inevitably find yourself in the middle of a heated discussion over ... |
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Sales Reps or Sales Force? |
| For many start-up companies, the question of whether to build a company sales force or to sell through independent reps is academic. Young start-ups can't afford the sales force, and rep firms won't talk to them until they've generated some sales. Eventually, the question arises: sales force or reps? Here are five ways ... |
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Marketing - Overview |
To many business owners, marketing means advertising and selling. However, you'll be more successful if you try to look at the "big picture" by analyzing your products or services and your business as a whole in relation to your competition, your customers, and to societal and regional trends and conditions.
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Gains on the Sale of Small Business Stock (Section 1202) |
In order to stimulate investment in small businesses, the 1993 tax law introduced code section 1202, which says that you may exclude from taxable income up to 50 percent of the gain you realize on the sale of qualified small business stock.
In order to qualify for the exclusion, you must meet these criteria:
You are ... |
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