Fast paced, enjoyable to read and even more fun to look at, Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust is a new kind of business book for the 21st century. Modern technology and the Internet combine to surpass the drab, text filled "drone tomes" that fill too many business owners' book shelves.
Over 200 illustrations, photos, graphs and cartoons take the reader through the historical shifts that created a generation of Boomer entrepreneurs, and the equally powerful forces that are assembling to challenge their successful transitions. Humor and insight share each page, mixing entertainment with critical information for planning the biggest financial event of most entrepreneurs' careers.
Your Exit Map covers the various strategies for transferring a business to new ownership. It describes the features that attract different classes of buyers, how they target companies for acquisition, and their methodologies for assigning value.
This is not an exit planning encyclopedia. Your Exit Map offers a high-level overview of how to use simple tools to determine the balance of priorities between your retirement timeframe, financial goals, and your desire to preserve the legacy of what you've built. It explains sales through business brokers, competitive acquisitions, private equity, leveraged buyouts, ESOPs and family transfers; describing the parameters for extracting maximum proceeds from each approach.
Your Exit Map also features interviews with owners who have exited their businesses with varying levels of success. In their own words, they describe the best and worst things that happened as they prepared to exit, during the process and afterwards. Their stories bring home the joys and pitfalls hat accompany such a major change in lifestyle.
Author John F. Dini has won multiple book awards for his conversational but insightful approach to business writing. This is a book that you will read, tell friends about, and then read again.
Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust is supplemented by an online library of free interactive planning tools, checklists and educational resources at YourExitMap.com. Each tool referenced in the book is available for instantly modeling your own plan, along with articles, white papers and the author's own exit planning blog Awakeat2oclock.com.
John F. Dini CMBA, CExP
President, MPN Incorporated
John F. Dini is a consultant and coach to hundreds of business owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs, His book Hunting in a Farmer's World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur, won "Best Business Book" at the New York Book Festival and the National Silver Medal for business books from the Independent Publishers' Association.
He is also the author of Beating the Boomer Bust and 11 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About Selling Your Business, now in its second edition. John holds a BS in Accounting from Rutgers University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University, along with six additional business certifications.
John writes numerous articles on exit strategy for newspapers, trade magazines, and in his own blog "Awake at 2 o'clock?" He is a 15-year member of Jim Blasingame's "Braintrust," appearing regularly on "The Small Business Advocate" nationally syndicated radio program, as an expert in the issues of business ownership. John also speaks to regional and national groups of business owners and their advisors.
The message of Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust is available as a keynote presentation for business owners and their advisors. Please inquire through johnfdini.com. John also takes a limited number of consulting engagements with mid-market companies investigating their options for internal transfer at mpninc.com.
You can subscribe to John Dini's blog about planning your exit at awakeat2oclock.com.
