Matt Ridenour
Business Value Scorecard

How would a buyer see your business today?

Twenty questions across the seven things buyers systematically discount. Five minutes, scored as you go.
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Why this matters

The gap is rarely about quality

Most owners have a number in their head for what the business is worth. Buyers have a different number, and the distance between the two is rarely about how good the business is. It is about risk the owner has stopped noticing.

Roughly 70% of businesses that go to market never sell. About half of all ownership exits are involuntary, driven by health, dispute, or distress rather than by choice.

This scorecard is the short version of the diligence a buyer will run. It will not value your business. It will show you where value is leaking, and roughly how much runway you need before a sale.

Answer honestlyNothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it. Optimism here costs you money later.
Yes = 2, Partly = 1, No = 0Forty points available across twenty questions.
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Where the value is leaking

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What to do with this

A low score is a list, not a verdict

Most of what this scorecard surfaces can be fixed in eighteen to thirty-six months, and each item is worth real money at a sale. The expensive path is discovering them during diligence, when the buyer sets the price on every one.

If you would like to talk through what your score means for your business specifically, I offer a 45-minute review at no cost and no obligation.

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