The 5-Year Exit: How to Turn Your Business Into a Premium Acquisition Target
If you want to sell for a premium, you need time. Here’s the blueprint to go from wherever you are now to a high-multiple exit in 5 years or less.
Year 1: Discover + De-Risk
Get your baseline valuation
Identify key-person and customer risks
Start transferring knowledge and authority
Build your second layer of leadership
Year 2: Systematize + Simplify
Build your SOPs
Upgrade your financial reporting
Automate, delegate, document
Launch dashboards and KPIs
Year 3: Scale Smart
Focus on profitable, sustainable growth
Nail down your ideal customer profile (ICP)
Streamline your offer and delivery
Optimize margins + recurring revenue
Build your deal team
Year 4: Strengthen the Capital Stack
Enhance brand and market position
Build strategic partnerships
Protect IP + legal structure
Improve customer and social capital
Year 5: Polish + Position
Recast financials
Craft your CIM (Confidential Info Memo)
Run a strategic exit process
Your Move:
Want to know what your business is really worth today—and how much value is on the table?
Start with our free Value Gap Assessment. It’ll show you where the risks are, what’s hurting your multiple, and how to fix it.
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