The Deep Wealth Podcast - Unlock Your Deep Wealth In Business and Life Investment Bankers Josh Curtis and Michael Butler Reveal Little Known Strategies To Help You Increase The Value Of Your Business (#30)
"Trust is the backbone of everything that we do because we are focused on that end result" - Josh Curtis
"The one thing we can attribute our high success rate to, is we do our homework upfront." - Michael Butler
Josh Curtis is Managing Director at Footprint Capital. Mr. Curtis advises business leaders in ownership transitions and liquidity events, including sell-side and buy-side transaction engagements as well as succession planning, strategic growth, management buyouts, ESOP formations, capital raises, and leveraged recaps. His career has been dedicated to facilitating strategic initiatives for both private and public companies with revenue ranging from a few million to over a billion across all industries in the U.S.
Michael Butler is a Senior Director at Footprint Capital. Michael is responsible leading sell-side and buy-side engagements with business owners. Michael cultivates relationships with clients, prospects, centers of influence, private equity firms, and family offices.
Josh and Michael share why they have a 98% success rate for exits and liquidity events.
SHOW NOTES
- Why Footprint Capital provides tailored solutions to smaller businesses
- How Footprint Capital focuses on your legacy on your liquidity event
- Why being industry agnostic gives Josh and Michael the edge for liquidity events
- The power of preparation today to help you increase your business value tomorrow
- Common areas business owners overlook that lower the value of the business
- Why you must hire the best advisors for your exit or liquidity event
- The dangers of personal expenses and how it can hurt your business value
- How Michael and Josh do their homework before saying "yes" to working with a company
- Why you should believe those "country club" stories of exit and liquidity events
- How Michael and Josh increased a client's business value by over $20 million
- The power of adding discipline and a proven system to a process to create value
- Why you need to know the most common value detractors and how to fix them
- How to organize your company for your liquidity event
- Key things to look for when selecting an investment banker
- Different tools and approaches to determine the value of a business
- How to set your expectations for the value of your business to be realistic
- Why Josh and Michael believe in the power of an auction
- The good, bad, and ugly of an earnout
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