Using Valuation Insights To Guide Strategic Growth Decisions

Valuation as a Management Tool: using it to prioritise growth investment before sale

Valuation is more than a number at sale time - it is a diagnostic tool for prioritising growth. Simon shows how valuation analysis can identify which initiatives deliver the biggest uplift and guide investment decisions during the lead-up to a sale.
The discussion frames valuation as a management tool that helps owners convert limited resources into demonstrable value improvements for prospective buyers.

About Simon Bedard

Simon Bedard, podcast guest

Business Sales Specialist & Author

25+ years Finance, investment, energy and technology experience100+ episodes Host of the Buy Grow Sell podcast20K+ Business-owner and adviser audience2024 winner BX Best Consulting Company of the Year

Simon Bedard helps business owners build businesses they can sell.

He is the Founder and CEO of Exit Advisory Group, National Chair of the Australian Institute of Business Brokers, a Registered Business Valuer, and the author of Exit Like an Expert, endorsed by a Bain & Company advisory partner and one of Australia’s best-known economists.

If your audience includes founders, investors, business owners, or the advisers around them, you and Simon have something in common.

Simon works on the part of the business owner’s journey that decides whether all that building and growing pays off. Turning a business you own into one someone will actually buy.

On his own podcast, Buy Grow Sell, he has interviewed more than 100 founders who have sold their companies, including the one who led Swisse to a $1.7 billion exit, and people like Finder.com co-founder Fred Schebesta, and a games maker whose studios were bought by Disney, Sony and Atari. He does lots of deals himself, so he brings stories and specifics, and he is an easy, engaged guest.

Unfortunately, most owners leave their ultimate ‘pay day’ to the end.

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