This book is for owners of closely-held companies who want to sell their businesses in the next few years. They represent only about 8% of the population in the United States, yet they employ between 60% and 70% of all USA employees.

Silicon Valley investor Ryn Brennan is on the verge of achieving everything she dreamed. She's succeeded in the male-dominated venture capital world, has a supportive husband, and is about to close the deal of her career. Everything is going exactly as planned, until she meets Carly, her husband's mistress, across the negotiating table. Carly clawed her way back from being a teenage runaway to become an accomplished scientist, caring single mom, and co-founder of her startup. Once she marries her loving fiancé, she'll secure the complete family she craves. But she's blindsided to discover her not so perfect fiancé is already married—to Ryn, her company's biggest investor. In an industry full of not-so-subtle sexism, can the two women rise above, and work together to overcome heartbreak, and ensure their success?

Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series) makes her first foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series of non-paranormal novels featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford. Nadia Stafford is one of the world’s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia’s very private existence is seriously challenged. A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the country—different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book: Helter Skelter. But does the Helter Skelter killer—as the hysterical media now dub him—have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work? Is this, in fact—as Jack believes—the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake? And, if so, which is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover—at least, to each other—and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society…

"Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish."--

This book is for owners of closely-held companies who want to sell their businesses in the next few years. They represent only about 8% of the population in the United States, yet they employ between 60% and 70% of all USA employees.

Written by John Leonetti—attorney, wealth manager, merger and acquisition associate, and fellow exiting business owner in his own right—Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth will guide you in thoughtfully planning out your exit options as well as helping you analyze your financial and mental readiness for your business exit. Easy to follow and essential for every business owner, this guide reveals how to establish an exit strategy plan that is in harmony with your goals.

This book is for owners of closely-held companies who want to sell their businesses in the next few years. They represent only about 8% of the population in the United States, yet they employ between 60% and 70% of all USA employees.

LEAVING YOUR BUSINESS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL TRANSACTION OF YOUR LIFE AND NOTHING HAS GREATER FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES. THE FUTURE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON HOW WELL YOU MANAGE YOUR EXIT PROCESS.The Definitive Guide lays out the steps you must take to achieve all of your aspirations as you exit your business. Author John Brown shares the wisdom, stories, tested process and exit planning roadmap from hundreds of exit planning advisors across North America. These advisors, and Brown's company, BEI, create thousands of owner exit plans every year. In The Definitive Guide, you will learn:How and why to set actionable exit goalsHow your role as owner must change if your business is to attract buyersHow your company's management team steps up to next-level operational excellenceWhich nine important value drivers deliver the value buyers pay top dollar forHow to avoid the common traps that can prevent you from creating an exit planHow to choose which of four exit paths is best for you, your family and your business: A sale to insiders (management team or co-owners)A transfer to childrenA third-party saleA sale to an Employee Stock Ownership PlanLET BROWN AND THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE BE YOUR COMPANIONS AS YOU UNDERTAKE THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL EVENT OF YOUR LIFE.John H. Brown is the CEO of Business Enterprise Institute, the oldest and largest provider of Exit Planning education to owners and advisors in North America. With over 225,000 copies in print, John's first book, How To Run Your Business So You Can Leave It In Style, is the best-selling exit-planning book of all time. John is an accomplished speaker and expert commentator on exit planning issues.

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. But first he has to find them—they’re ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified “deep black” locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them—and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man. As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself. In an action-packed journey that leads from a high-security military installation in the Appalachian Mountains to a secret underground bunker hidden far below the streets of New York City, Nick Mason will have to become, more than ever before, the lethal weapon that Darius Cole created.

This book is for owners of closely-held companies who want to sell their businesses in the next few years. They represent only about 8% of the population in the United States, yet they employ between 60% and 70% of all USA employees.