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For Business Owners

(And Their Advisors)

Evaluate Potential Investment

If your company earns between $2.5 million and $14 million in net annual owner earnings and you are considering recapitalization, strategic partnership, or planning your transition out of the company, we invite you to evaluate whether adventur.es may be the right investor for your firm.

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Selling

For most owners, selling a business is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Our objective is to demystify what some peers try to present as a complicated process. It’s nuanced and hard to sell a company, but it isn’t rocket science. The resources below should be helpful to you whether you choose to sell to us or anyone else.

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adventur.es

Our Midwest-based firm invests with no intention of selling in family-built companies with durable value propositions, strong leadership, and ambition for the future. Our operating philosophy is oriented around long-term sustainability and success, not short-term scale. In the private equity world, we’re weird — and content with it.

For Those IN the trenches

(Us Included)

The Knife Fight

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Featured Writings

• Gorilla Mode: What Amazon Means For The Rest Of Us

• Risk, Return, and The High Wire Act

• The Ceiling Of Brute Force: Small Businesses Don’t Stay Small On Purpose

• How To Sell Anything: An Introductory Guide

• Why We Love To Buy Boring Businesses

• Our “No Asshole” Policy
  

Bookshelf

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

Meeker’s Internet Trends Report

The Art of Profitability

The Industrialists

Good Ideas Can’t Be Scheduled

On Being Certain

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