23 min

The Buyer of your Business is a Full-Time Predator and You're Part-Time Prey - Armor Up with Kirk Michie Entrepreneurs on Fire

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Kirk Michie is the founder of Candor Advisors. For more than 30 years, he has worked with entrepreneurs, closely held business owners, and high net worth families to achieve their strategic planning, liquidity, investment, and legacy objectives.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Every successful business and every successful founder has figured out, whether through impulses or versions of scaling, how to make their business more successful. Just because your business is successful, doesn’t mean it’s valuable.
2. A lot of times, what the sellers really want is to do something else, be that retirement, or investment in another business, or to come to office less often, or not have the responsibility of managing people anymore, or not have to deal with environments and economic cycles.
3. When you’re a successful entrepreneur, chances are, you have ignored overtime a lot of well-meaning but poor advise. And, your impulses which may or may not scale, has caused a lot of your success.
Visit Kirk’s website - Candor Advisors
Sponsors:
HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com!
Zapier: Connect all your apps, automate routine tasks, and streamline your processes! Try Zapier for free today at Zapier.com/fire!
Thinkific: Download your free report that reveals what the top 20% of course creators are doing right now to be so darn successful at Thinkific.com/firetrends!

Kirk Michie is the founder of Candor Advisors. For more than 30 years, he has worked with entrepreneurs, closely held business owners, and high net worth families to achieve their strategic planning, liquidity, investment, and legacy objectives.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Every successful business and every successful founder has figured out, whether through impulses or versions of scaling, how to make their business more successful. Just because your business is successful, doesn’t mean it’s valuable.
2. A lot of times, what the sellers really want is to do something else, be that retirement, or investment in another business, or to come to office less often, or not have the responsibility of managing people anymore, or not have to deal with environments and economic cycles.
3. When you’re a successful entrepreneur, chances are, you have ignored overtime a lot of well-meaning but poor advise. And, your impulses which may or may not scale, has caused a lot of your success.
Visit Kirk’s website - Candor Advisors
Sponsors:
HubSpot: Learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business at HubSpot.com!
Zapier: Connect all your apps, automate routine tasks, and streamline your processes! Try Zapier for free today at Zapier.com/fire!
Thinkific: Download your free report that reveals what the top 20% of course creators are doing right now to be so darn successful at Thinkific.com/firetrends!

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