Trevor Stevenson-Platt

How to Find a Business to Buy, Then Make the Best Buyers Find You

You don’t sell a company by waiting. You sell it by standing exactly where the right buyer is already looking. The fastest way to do that is to step into a buyer’s shoes, study how they hunt, and put your name directly in their path. Here’s the

Add a Zero to Your Exit: Forwards Vertical Integration Example

You can sell the secret sauce, or you can sell the entire table it’s served on. Owning the last mile to your customer isn’t a vanity move. It’s a profit engine. If you’re thinking about selling your business, this choice can add a zero to your

Synergy Business Definition: Get Paid for the Buyer's Future

Most founders think buyers pay for what exists. They don’t. They pay for what it becomes when your company snaps into theirs. A close friend sold a solid seven-figure business and felt great, until he watched the acquirer triple revenue in a year using assets he’d already

Buyers Pay for These Examples of a Lifestyle Business, Not Hustle

You built a business to buy your freedom, not another job with louder notifications. Now you’re thinking about selling, and here’s the hard truth: buyers don’t pay for your grind. They pay for what runs without you. If that stings, good. It means you still care. This

Raise Your Exit Multiple: Vertical Forward Integration Example

You built the hard part already. The product works. Customers come back. Your name gets spoken in rooms you’ve never entered. Yet a slice of your margin keeps disappearing into other people’s pockets. Here’s the truth that moves valuations fast: buyers pay premium prices for companies that

Sell Certainty: Get the Right Merger Acquisition Company

You built something real, not a pitch deck. It pays salaries, fixes problems, and probably took a chunk out of your health along the way. Now you’re wondering if it’s time to sell, and that single thought changes everything you see. Here’s the truth most founders learn

Stop Gambling Your Exit: M&A Services That Maximise Certainty

You built this business with grit, guesses, and a ridiculous tolerance for chaos. Selling it should feel like a victory lap, not a roulette wheel. The hard truth: the market doesn’t pay for what you built, it pays for what you can prove. Here’s the unlock. You don’

Win on Your Terms: Mastering Middle Market Private Equity Exits

You built the kind of business that doesn’t flinch when the phones go quiet. Now a new phrase keeps showing up at your table: middle-market private equity. Here’s the track they run, and how to sell on your terms. I once sat with a founder with sweat

Sell Certainty, Not Features: How the Right M&A Company Wins

You built a business that pays your mortgage and carries your pride. Now the thing you created is knocking to leave home. The only question is whether you sell it on your terms, or let the market make you smaller by the month. I watched a founder friend hold out

The M&A Bank Playbook: Manufacture Price, Not Hope

Some deals make you rich. Some deals eat you alive. The difference is rarely luck. You built this with your hands and your weekends. Payroll sweats, customer calls at midnight, launches that could have gone either way, you carried all of it. Selling isn’t a victory lap; it’s

M&A Banking: Turn One Buyer Into Five and Control the Clock

You only sell your business once. Get it right and you fund your next chapter; get it wrong and you fund someone else’s. I’m here to make sure you don’t hand them the scissors. A quick story I watched a founder take the first sweet offer. By

Sell Smart: How to Determine Net Working Capital, and Keep Your Cash

You’re about to sell the company you built. You have a number in your head and a buyer at the table. Then the diligence team asks about working capital, and the room gets colder than it should. Here’s the quiet truth: this one number can make you smile