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  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780670923281
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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Finish Big

How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top





Many books teach you how to start a company - Finish Big shows you how to successfully sell up

Bo Burlingham's first book Small Giants became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem: how to handle the pressure to grow. Now he is back to tackle an even more common problem: how to exit your company well.

Through dozens of interviews, Burlingham identifies eight key factors that determine whether owners leave their businesses happily. He showcases the insights, exits and cautionary tales of entrepreneurs across an array of industries including manufacturing, food and services.

Finish Big is an illuminating and inspirational guide to one of the most stressful, and yet potentially rewarding, processes business owners must go through.

  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780670923281
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

About the author

Bo Burlingham

Bo Burlingham is Inc.'s editor at large. He is the coauthor of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome, and the author of Small Giants.

Bo Burlingham is the author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big, a finalist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year in 2006. An editor at large at Inc., he has also written for Esquire, Harper's, Mother Jones and the Boston Globe, among other publications.

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Praise for Finish Big

Practical and profound, fast-moving and thought-provoking, masterful in its clear prose and compelling stories- Bo Burlingham has once again done a tremendous service in deploying his craft.

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and co-author of Built to Last and Great by Choice

Finish Big is for all those founder/leaders who want to do more than take...it is for the ones who want to leave something behind.

Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why and Leaders Eat Last

I love Burlingham's quest to understand why some entrepreneurs create a meaningful life after exiting their businesses, while others suffer and wander without purpose. Practical and profound, fast-moving and thought-provoking, masterful in its clear prose and compelling stories - Bo Burlingham has once again done a tremendous service in deploying his craft.

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and co-author of Built to Last and Great by Choice

Given the plethora of management books, the idea of something truly new is nutty. But Finish Big sprouts from untilled soil, offering invaluable tales of business owners wrestling with life's thorniest issues. Remarkable research, remarkable prose, remarkable book.

Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence

This book is a gift, a must read for anyone who has even an inkling that it might be helpful. It will reward you with both peace of mind and a significant ROI.

Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author

For anyone tiring of Silicon Valley-inspired guides to success, the stars of this guide on how to prepare your business for sale are refreshingly unglamorous

The Times

One of the better books I have read on this subject ... full of sound ideas about which advisers to use, how to find meaning after selling your life's work, how to balance the various priorities when you sell, who to sell to - and what price to expect

Luke Johnson, Financial Times