• The Exit-Strategy Playbook

  • The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Business
  • By: Adam Coffey
  • Narrated by: Ron Butler
  • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (73 ratings)

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The Exit-Strategy Playbook

By: Adam Coffey
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Publisher's summary

From the best-selling author of The Private Equity Playbook comes Adam Coffey’s second offering, The Exit-Strategy Playbook.

Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish.

Adam Coffey has spent the last 20 years as CEO of three private-equity-backed national service companies. Through his experience executing a buy-and-build strategy, he has bought and sold more than 100 companies ranging in size from $1 million to $1 billion. Selling your business is an art. Learn from an experienced artist how to successfully navigate the sale process.

This book isn’t about selling fast — it’s about selling smart and achieving maximum value for the time and effort you’ve put into your company. Pick up The Exit-Strategy Playbook today and get an instant PhD in the art of the business sale.

©2021 Adam Coffey (P)2021 Adam Coffey

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concentrated, practical, first hand knowledge

I feel like Adam Coffey has become a mentor to me, though we have never met. This is the kind of first hand experiential knowledge that a mentor entrusts to someone they want to help.

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Step-by-step from an expert

This was an extremely useful book. I listened to it twice The narrator did a great job.

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Excellent intro

As an owner-operated business I found this very interesting. I learned a lot about strategy, sales team and pitfalls to look out for. This book is straightforward and a good read for anyone to understand the buy-sell platform.

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Great overview of business readiness

We all know the wisdom of beginning with the end in mind, however when it comes to selling a business, we tend to miss that part, instead focusing on the building part. Adam's book is a great nuts and bolts overview of how to set up your business not only for operational success, but ultimate success in a sale or transition. Did you know 50% of all businesses are purchased by private equity nowadays? His other book on private equity transactions is worth a read as well!

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Great tactical book

Great tactical and practical book for entrepreneurs looking to understand the buy/sell process. Highly recommend

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Smart options for smart players!



"Exit Strategy Playbook" serves as an exceptional guide for those wanting a smart and highly digestable big picture view of their options when planning to exit a business, I particularly appreciated this work as a rare glimpse into an often-opaque world of private equity -- a world that Adam has not only mastered himself but makes look so easy.

Heidi Pliam, business lawyer & entrepreneur

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very informative and great stuff!

very informative and great stuff!

really enjoyed the step by step of the process

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Great book!

Would like a bit more depth but this book really delivered. Fantastic overview of what every business owner should know.

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Excellent!

Learned so much about selling my business. Excellent resource for preparing the business for sale and the options during the sale.

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Concise and applicable

Very well laid out and presented. Information was useful for someone starting to think about retiring or changing the ownership dynamic.

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