Babson College Offers "Buying a Small Business" Open Enrollment Program For Investment Seeking Entrepreneurs
Investment seeking entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn how to acquire small businesses at Babson College's new open enrollment program, "Buying a Small Business" on Saturday, June 16, 2012.
- Boston, MA-NH (1888PressRelease) June 15, 2012 - Buying a Small Business is a hands-on, applied one-day program that digs deeply into the challenges, process, and industry peculiarities of buying a small business. Participants explore the details of planning, evaluating, and negotiating to buy a small business from a family-controlled or privately-owned enterprise.
Key aspects of financing and equity structure are also explored for small businesses with revenue or enterprise value of under $3-5 million.
Objectives
Deliver knowledge and tools to tackle small business acquisitions and investment opportunities.
Explore key dynamics associated with buying a small business.
Understand the reality of information gathering, negotiations, capital plan negotiations, and how to deal with the potential challenges within the process or lack of one.
Curriculum
The program features a carefully structured blend of lectures, case studies, discussions, and an action-learning assignment. The curriculum moves quickly through the phases and components of the small business acquisition process and the tactics needed to be successful. Mini-cases and deal books will be used throughout to allow participants to practice the process of buying a small business in a realistic and market-oriented way.
Topics include:
Self-Analysis-is buying a small business right for me?
The M&A process for a small business buy
Sourcing business opportunities
Peculiarities of the small business and links to the 'buy'
Valuation processes and alternatives
Deal structure alternatives
Seller objectives and psychology
Financing alternatives
'The Info Game' and links to due diligence
Negotiating a small business purchase
Purchase and sale agreements
Running a small business
Passive income purchases
About Babson
Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kindsฎ. The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society -- while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Actionฎ as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value. For information, visit www.babson.edu.
For more about the program or to register, please visit www.babson.edu/buysmallbusiness.
Babson is the educator, convener, and thought leader of global entrepreneurship. We are a dynamic learning laboratory, shaping both today's educators and tomorrow's entrepreneurial leaders. For more information, please visit www.babson.edu/bee or contact exec ( @ ) babson dot edu or 781-239-4354.
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