Sabre Capital Announces Strategic Partnership for Expanded M&A Outreach

Sabre Capital is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with longtime marketing partner Parklife, a boutique creative services firm with offices in Charlotte and Raleigh.

strategic partnershipsTrip HolmesFebruary 22, 2023business growth, business valuation, enhancing business value, business owners, family businesses, family business, selling a business, strategic partner, marketing, innovation

Succession Is Not a Plan, It’s an Outcome

Some business owners have a plan, some have none at all, and some are handed ownership of the business from the passing of a loved one. No matter the situation, it’s important to remember that succession is an outcome rather than a plan.

selling your businessTrip HolmesFebruary 7, 2023business growth, business valuation, enhancing business value, business owners, family businesses, family business, selling a business

Seven Steps to Building Company Value

After more than 35 years of advising middle-market family business owners, I always come back to the question I’m most often asked: “How can I maximize the value of my company?” Here’s my advice.

selling your businessTrip HolmesNovember 24, 2021business growth, business valuation, enhancing business value, business owners, family businesses, family business, selling a business

Five Characteristics That May Be Reducing the Value of Your Business

Recently, I found myself thinking of some of the mistakes, often unwitting, that owners make to undermine their goals and reduce the value of their business. Here are my top five for your consideration.

business triageTrip HolmesNovember 18, 2021business growth, business valuation, enhancing business value, business owners, family businesses, family business, valuation specialists

Estate Planning and Business Planning Go Hand-in-Hand

Some businesses fail to survive after the death, incapacity, or retirement of the controlling family members. Family business founders must balance the challenges of running any business with those related to family dynamics. Many of these challenges may be addressed by a cohesive approach to transition planning and estate planning, culminating in an exit strategy.

2019 Is Your Year! Transitioning Your Family Business to the Next Generation

This year should be unprecedented with regard to the number of Baby Boomer business owners, both in small businesses and the middle market, looking to move on to retirement. There are a variety of factors that have converged to make this seller’s market one of the better ones we’ve seen in the modern era, but it can’t last much longer.

selling your business, exit strategyTrip HolmesJanuary 16, 2019family businesses, family business owners, middle market family owned businesses, financial consulting, Baby Boomer business owners, business owner retirement, exit strategy, selling your business to your children, applicable federal rate, IRS, AFR, seller's market, non-family buyer, succession planning

The Four Key Qualities of a Great Business Broker

When I think about my own 35 years as a business broker, not only in what I’ve accomplished in collaboration with Sabre Capital’s partners and clients, but also in the many other business broker colleagues whom I admire, I see some common denominators of success.

Sabre Capital, business brokerTrip HolmesNovember 6, 2018business broker, Sabre Capital, strategic partner, entrepreneurs, family businesses, client confidentiality, be hungry, be empathetic, be a critical thinker, empathy, family business owners