Strategies for raising growth capital, understanding debt vs. equity, and navigating the capital markets as a lower middle market business owner.
Seller financing is involved in 60-80% of lower middle market deals. Learn how seller notes work, when they make sense, how to structure them properly, and the common mistakes that cost sellers money.
Raising growth capital doesn’t mean giving up control. Learn how to evaluate debt, equity, mezzanine, and revenue-based financing structures to fund growth while maintaining majority ownership and decision-making authority.
Private equity and strategic buyers evaluate your business through fundamentally different lenses. Understanding which is right for your exit — or why you need both at the table — is one of the most consequential decisions you’ll make as a seller.
Every capital decision is a trade-off between ownership, control, and risk. Here’s how lower middle market business owners should think about equity vs. debt — and the hybrid approaches that usually make the most sense.