Austec Pre-Sell Business Assessment

Questions that change your future

19
categories

Personal and Buyers Perspective

310
Questions

Questions meant to drive preparedness and maximize both financial and emotional value.

dashboard scores

Feedback to drive thoughtful transitions.

Why the Assessment?

Fast Answers or the Full Picture? Your call.

What we do

Questions that Innovate

Since founding Austec Business Transitions, LLC in 2015, we have continued to focus on innovative ways to help business owners prepare their companies for sale. One of the most successful strategies has been to discover and ask great questions as a key factor in ensuring the sale of your business is not only financially rewarding but also personally fulfilling.

Questions

Stimulating Thought and Inquiry

The goal of this exercise is to challenge your concept of whether you, the business owner, are ready to sell, but even more importantly, open the door to possible improvements that increase transaction price, company attractiveness, transaction speed, probabilities of closing, and owner’s post-sale satisfaction that are brought about only by great questions.

Emotional Readiness

One of the most significant factors for transaction success. Without it, transactions often fail to close, or the owner walks away with regret.

Personal
Financial Resources

If the owner fails to ask the right questions in this category, the transaction is more likely to lead to failure.

Sale
Objectives

Goals are achieved by setting the correct objectives. Questions are usually the starting point for finding the proper objectives.

Buyers
Perspectives

A company that meets buyers’ expectations increases the probability of a larger buyer pool, which in turn increases the purchase price and enhances the likelihood of closing the transaction.

Question
Categories

Questions are Better than Advice

Advice fosters dependency
Advice is based on the giver’s experience
Advice can be dismissed

Questions foster autonomy
Questions provide the listener the use of their own experience to solve
Questions lead to self accountability

owners comments

“These are thought-provoking questions.” Pat F., WA
“These are perceptive and incisive questions.” Marc L., CO
“I would have never guessed half this stuff.” Ron J., NC
“I’ve sold several businesses, but if I knew before what was in this report I would have made more money no question.” Robert N., CO

Famous Quotes About Questions

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” – Peter Drucker

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” – Thomas Berge

“It’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” – James Thurber

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” – Indira Gandhi

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” – Francis Bacon

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” – Eugene Ionesco

Questions to change your future.