Exit strategies allow business owners and investors to sell or transfer ownership of assets or companies. They can use these strategies when seeking to retire, cash out or shift focus to new ventures.

According to a 2025 survey by the Exit Planning Institute, 58 percent of Baby Boomer entrepreneurs said they expected to sell their companies within five years. But just 14 percent considered creating ...

Peter Goldstein is the CEO of Exchange Listing, an advisory firm that counsels high-growth companies to list on senior stock exchanges. As an entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience building ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lien De Pau, founder of The Big Exit. Sell your biz for max value. When I began my entrepreneurial journey, selling my business ...

When starting a new business, many entrepreneurs forget to include one key element in their business plan: an exit strategy. Brian Franco, who founded Meritage Partners and is the author of the new ...

(For this month's Vets to Venture article, we partner with Brandon Harris, an M&A Advisor with Graystone International and a U.S. Marine Veteran. Brandon teams up with Adams & Reese Corporate Services ...

A business exit strategy is a plan that a business owner or entrepreneur establishes to sell their ownership in a company to investors or another company, or to cease operations entirely. An effective ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Having a well-defined exit strategy from day one is essential and gives entrepreneurs the power to dictate how they leave their business, ...