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Cashing Out: The business owner’s guide to selling to private equity

Alexis Sikorsky, #1 International Bestselling Author and Special Advisor to Founders of £5M–£20M Businesses, Founder Bottleneck and Private Equity Exit Strategist

Launching and growing a business can be unpredictable – so a clear vision and a strategy for exit is essential to navigate these choppy waters.If you’re not sure where you’re going and how to get there, feel weighed down by responsibility and tough decision-making, and struggle to balance work and personal life, Cashing Out is your lifeline.Using the time-tested, actionable APEX methodology for scaling businesses and avoiding common mistakes, this book provides proven strategies for CEOs and for visionary founders who want to sell to private equity and secure a life-changing deal.Cashing Out gives you the tools to:• Articulate a clear vision for your business• Unlock new levels of cash flow• Prioritise your time• Scale to a £100m+ valuation• Identify and achieve the right private equity exit that fits with your goals If you’re not sure where you’re going and how to get there, feel weighed down by responsibility and tough decision-making, and struggle to balance work and personal life, Cashing Out is your lifeline. Using the time-tested, actionable APEX methodology for scaling businesses and avoiding common mistakes, this book provides proven strategies for CEOs and for visionary founders who want to sell to private equity and secure a life-changing deal. Cashing Out gives you the tools to: • Articulate a clear vision for your business • Unlock new levels of cash flow • Prioritise your time • Scale to a £100m+ valuation • Identify and achieve the right private equity exit that fits with your goals

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About Alexis Sikorsky

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#1 International Bestselling Author and Special Advisor to Founders of £5M–£20M Businesses, Founder Bottleneck and Private Equity Exit Strategist

$100M+ Private equity exit500+ Employees scaled at New Access#1 International bestselling author£5M–£20M Founder businesses advised by revenue

Alexis Sikorsky is a #1 international bestselling author and Special Advisor to founders of privately held £5M–£20M businesses. Through Knightscale Partners, he helps founder-led companies break through the Five Million Plateau, remove founder dependency, build the senior operating layer they are missing, and prepare for scale, recapitalisation or private equity exit.

He moved into this work after founding, scaling and selling New Access, a Switzerland-based private banking software company, through a staged nine-figure private equity exit. That experience showed him the gap between generic online advice and what actually happens in boardrooms when founders are preparing for liquidity, negotiating with investors, or realising the business cannot keep scaling while every major decision still runs through them.

Today, Alexis works with founders at the point where the habits that built the company start to limit the company. A founder can be the biggest asset in the early years, but around the £5M–£20M stage, they can become the bottleneck if the business still relies on their memory, energy, relationships and constant intervention. At Knightscale Partners, Alexis works alongside co-founder Topher Morrison and a roster of experienced senior operators to give founder-led businesses access to the C-suite thinking they need before they are ready to hire a full-time executive team.

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