Most brokers will take your money and never set you up for success. Get reputable counsel long before you ever plan to sell.
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there's a lot of quote unquote brokers out there that are only gonna take your money and not set you up for success. You should always be building your business to sell, whether you do or not, that's the most efficient form of business. However, you really need to get advice and counsel way before, if you are planning to do a transaction, way before you ever are going to. And you need to find someone who's extremely reputable and you need to find someone who understands the business. I have seen so many PNLs that have been looked over by brokers and they don't even have a labor in the correct area. They don't have a PNL that's even digestible because it's all over the place. To me, if you're coming to a broker, they should know the business well enough to make sure that that is all presented very well.
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