Buying and Selling a Business
Learn how to evaluate a business before you buy, qualify for SBA financing, and prepare your own business for a successful sale.
A buyer-seller readiness path that covers diligence, financing preparedness, and the cleanup work behind a stronger sale process.
36 min · 3 lessons
Course outcomes
- Review a target business with stronger evidence discipline
- Understand what makes an SBA file feel stronger or weaker
- Prepare a business for buyer diligence and transition
What you will create, decide, or complete
A clearer diligence file, financing-readiness view, and sale-preparation sequence.
Prerequisites
- Helpful for active buyers or owners preparing for exit; no formal prerequisite required.
Course path
Each lesson stays linked to its Guide article so you can read deeply without duplicating the content inside Academy.
- 1
12 min read
How to Evaluate a Business Before You Buy It
Build a diligence view that distinguishes facts, assumptions, and unresolved risk before you decide what the business is worth to you.
Open lesson → - 2
12 min read
Can You Qualify for an SBA Loan?
Separate eligibility from lender underwriting, identify missing documentation, and decide what would make your file stronger before you commit further.
Open lesson → - 3
12 min read
How to Prepare Your Business for Sale
Organize financial clarity, transferability, controlled disclosure, and transition planning before the market asks for them all at once.
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- buy
How to Evaluate a Business Before You Buy It: A Practical Due Diligence Guide
Learn how to review a business listing, verify its financial performance, identify hidden risks, and decide whether an acquisition deserves further investigation.
Build a diligence view that distinguishes facts, assumptions, and unresolved risk before you decide what the business is worth to you.
12 min read
- buy
Can You Qualify for an SBA Loan to Buy a Business? A Practical Readiness Guide
Understand the basic SBA eligibility rules, how lenders evaluate an acquisition, what documents buyers should prepare, and which issues to address before contacting a lender.
Separate eligibility from lender underwriting, identify missing documentation, and decide what would make your file stronger before you commit further.
12 min read
- sell
How to Prepare Your Business for Sale: A Practical Readiness Guide
Learn how to organize your financial records, reduce buyer concerns, prepare for due diligence, protect confidentiality, and make your business easier to evaluate before beginning a sale.
Organize financial clarity, transferability, controlled disclosure, and transition planning before the market asks for them all at once.
12 min read