For Business Owners

Selecting someone to take over your business requires careful consideration of many factors, including:

• The new owner’s long-term vision for the future of your company.
• What happens to your current employees in both the short and long term?
• Continuation of your legacy and the culture you have built and nurtured.
• Flexibility in your role and participation post-transaction.
• The timeframe and complexity of the sale transaction, including the number of counterparties and layers of approval.
• The funding of the sale.

Review a comparison of the various options

We understand that selling your business is a big decision, especially for a Founder/Owner whose legacy is at stake. We commit to a professional, confidential, and careful process:

1. Your Interest
   You can contact us through our Contact form.
2. Initial Intake Call
   We have a confidential conversation about your community, company, and plans at a high level.
3. Non-Disclosure Agreement
   We enter into a confidentiality agreement to protect the company information you choose to share with us.
4. Introductory Meeting
   We schedule a face-to-face meeting. We want to build a relationship. Often, we can arrive at a ballpark value for your business at this meeting.
5. Further Discussions & LOI
   We'll do more diligence by signing a Letter of Intent that would allow us to look over your business's critical details and prepare a written offer that includes a valuation, proposed structure, and timeline for purchasing your business.
6. Collaborative Due Diligence & Transition Planning
   We continue to build a relationship and agree on the final terms. Our goal is to arrive at a favorable price and deal structure for both parties. In addition to equity, we can explore debt and seller financing where appropriate.
7. Transition Closing & Onboarding
   We complete the sale process, appropriately communicate the transaction to employees, customers, and partners, and begin working together on a day-to-day basis to create added value.

• Working with Indus Growth Fund makes your future involvement level flexible, considering your needs and desires. You're constrained with limited options with private equity or a strategic acquisition.
• We want to work with current business owners to develop the right post-transaction plan that meets their personal needs around the transition.
• We are open to discussing options for how former leadership can remain engaged at their desired level while preserving aspects of the established culture as appropriate.