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LEARN THE PROCESS BEFORE YOU ENTER IT

The most important investment you can make before selling your business is not in your advisors or your marketing materials.
It is in your own understanding of how exits actually work.

The Exit Academy is a private educational resource created to help founders develop that understanding – clearly, comprehensively, and on their own terms.

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WHY THIS EXISTS

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CLOSING THE KNOWLEDGE GAP

Selling a business is a specialist discipline with its own language, dynamics, and leverage points. Advisors operate inside that world every day. Most founders encounter it once.

The Exit Academy was created to bridge that gap – not by turning founders into advisors, but by giving founders the perspective needed to engage the process confidently, ask better questions, and recognise when a process is truly working in their favour.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section el_class=”x-bar-section –blue”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”x-text –boxed –white –larger –special-list”]

WHAT’S INSIDE

THE STRUCTURE

  • 28 lessons mapping the full sell-side journey
  • 5 phases that make the process legible
  • 11.5 hours of instruction drawn from entrepreneurship and global M&A
  • Hosted by Mark Carmichael
  • Downloadable reference tools covering valuation, positioning, advisor selection, deal psychology, and more

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All so you can:

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  • 01 Understand the rules of selling your business before you start. And avoid the common mistakes that can derail a successful exit.
  • 02 See the expert process from start to finish. And get a bird’s eye view of all the twists and turns you’ll encounter.
  • 03 Walk away from the successful sale of your business knowing that you received the best price, on the best terms, from the best buyer. No regrets.

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THE JOURNEY

THE CURRICULUM

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  • Is it time to sell
  • Preparing for exit
  • Valuation and deal structuring
  • Building the right deal team
  • Hiring an M&A advisor

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  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Marketing strategy and outreach
  • Letters of Intent and negotiation
  • Due diligence and closing

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The Exit Academy is like getting all of the questions you had about selling your business – and the ones you didn’t know to ask – answered.

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Who is Mark Carmichael, anyways?

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“Mark Carmichael is the entrepreneur’s M&A advisor.”

Verne Harnish, Author of Scaling Up – Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0 co-founder of Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”x-text –steps –steps2″]Born and raised in New York, and having lived internationally for 25 years, Mark is one of the world’s leading mid-market sell-side practitioners. He’s a serial entrepreneur and speaker on all matters related to selling businesses. He’s also the author of the award-winning book, The Intelligent Exit: The Business Owner’s Guide to A Winning Strategy for Selling Your Company.

Mark is an Oxford University (MBA) graduate. His reputation as an entrepreneur-turned-M&A advisor is one of the features that sets him apart in the M&A world. He’s started and exited 5 of his own businesses, and has advised hundreds of other entrepreneurs worldwide on the sales of theirs.

For the last 15 years, he’s been a Global Managing Director at STS Capital Partners International, a leading global mid-market M&A advisory firm rooted in the fundamentals of entrepreneurialism. Supported by STS’ presence in 26 cities worldwide, he and his team work with entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses in virtually every sector globally.

Mark’s mission? To make sure every business owner planning to sell their business knows the rules of the game before they start… then ensures the most effective exit strategy possible.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section el_class=”x-bar-section –faded-orange –has-extension –equal –unmarg-bot –no-over” el_id=”testimonials”][vc_row][vc_column el_class=”x-boxed –no-shadow”]

  • “The Exit Academy course and Intelligent Exit book provide the framework of value-added strategies and comprehensive tools to sell businesses more profitably. Mark’s perspective on the sell-side process is highly unique and will be of significant value to any shareholder, CEO, founder or otherwise who is looking to sell their business...I am certain that the approach to selling businesses that Mark has developed and outlines in his book will make a positive difference to any business owner’s sell-side strategy  ”
    Igor Sill
    Silicon Valley VC and early-stage investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Siebel Systems (Oracle), Weblogic, and Square
  • “The Exit Academy will instill the clarity, direction and confidence that is unfortunately so often absent at the beginning stages when a business owner is considering the sale his/her business. For most, selling a business is a new experience. And given that it is often one of life’s most significant financial transactions, it pays to invest in developing the right understanding and framework from that outset that will prepare you for making higher quality decisions throughout your own exit journey.”
    Robert Follows
    Founder and Chairman of STS Capital Partners International, a leading global mid-market M&A advisory firm.
  • “This course is a must for business owners big and small, as it addresses an issue that most entrepreneurs struggle with or fail all together on: educating themselves before they initiate the process of selling their business. The Exit Academy would have been of enormous benefit to several business owners I’ve come across over the years. Mark’s teachings fill a gap in the marketplace by focusing on what matters most to the seller to ensure the most successful outcome.”
    Tim Galpin, Ph.D
    Senior Lecturer of Strategy & Innovation, Academic Director of the MBA Program at University of Oxford, best-selling author and a consultant to boards and senior management
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Yes to knowing the rules before I sell my business.

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ACCESS

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SHARED PRIVATELY

The Exit Academy is currently shared privately with founders who are exploring an exit and would benefit from deeper perspective.

Selected materials – including the introductory 3-video briefing – are available upon request.

[ Request Access ]
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The Exit Academy – Your All-Access pass to the complete journey of selling your business.

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  • 28 lessons that reveal the ‘rules’ of selling your business
  • 11.5 hours of comprehensive instruction and insights based on over 30 years of experience of starting, buying and selling businesses globally
  • Answers to your most pressing questions about the sale of your business from Mark and his team
  • 21 info sheets and downloads that include: how to hire the right M&A advisor, the psychology and emotions of selling your business, why so many businesses sell for less than they should, why it’s crucial to establish a competitive bidding environment, what your business is really worth, what to expect in advisor fees and more

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Enroll in The Exit Academy

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