IBA, as the premier business brokerage firm in the Pacific Northwest, is firmly established as a respected professional service firm in the legal, accounting, banking, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, and financial planning communities.  Periodically, we will post guest blogs from professionals with knowledge to share for the good of owners of privately held companies…

Successfully solving a Rubik’s Cube requires an individual to match the color of nine separate components on each of the six sides of the cube.  If one of the sides is not uniform in color the puzzle has not been triumphantly completed.  Successfully facilitating the sale of a privately held company or family business similarly…

One of my favorite 21st century business models as a mergers & acquisitions intermediary with an over thirty year focus on facilitating transactions in the manufacturing sector is manufacturing with a direct to consumer sales channel. I have seen this business model employed very effectively at companies that I have sold like Tom Bihn (https://www.tombihn.com/)…