A one-day conference for owners who want a business worth buying
What is your business
actually worth to a buyer?
Most owners find out on the day they try to sell it.
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What is actually at stake
Every one of these comes off your price.
A buyer does not argue about what your business is worth. They hand the diligence list to their lawyer, and the lawyer returns a number lower than yours. Here is where that gap comes from.
- No written agreement between the owners Deal paused
- The brand or the code sits in someone's personal name Held back from the sale
- Your biggest customer's contract does not transfer Revenue discounted
- The lease ends before the buyer's plan does Closing delayed
- Contractors doing the work of employees Money held in escrow
- Books that cannot survive a quality of earnings review Multiple cut
- The business cannot run for a month without you Payout pushed years out
None of it can be fixed once a buyer is already at the table. All of it can be fixed years earlier, which is the entire point of this day.
At an 800-attendee goal, up to 50 introductions each is 40,000 introduction touchpoints, or up to 20,000 unique one-to-one pairings, because every conversation has two people in it.
The buyer's lawyer will find it. You should find it first.
An operating agreement signed years ago. The brand sitting in someone's personal name. A lease that does not transfer. Contracts a customer can walk away from the day you close. None of it matters until somebody makes an offer. Then all of it matters at once, and every item on that list comes out of your price.
This is the day you deal with it while nothing is on the line.
Five tracks
The exit, in the order it actually happens.
One seat per profession for the whole event, so the five experts in a block each hand you a different piece of the same decision.
What It Is Actually Worth
Before you fix anything, get the number and find out who decides it.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PMThe Foundation
The structure and records a buyer expects to already exist.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PMWhere the Revenue Is Fragile
Contracts, customers, and the lease that decides your closing date.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PMThe Business Without You
Why buyers discount a company that runs on one person.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PMClosed, Funded, and After
From the letter of intent to the wire, and the day after it lands.
The lineup
Twenty-five speakers. Twenty-five different professions.
One seat per profession for the whole event. Each expert covers a different piece of the exit, so every session you sit in teaches something the last one did not.
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Certified valuation analyst
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Track A
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Business broker
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Track A
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03
Quality of earnings specialist
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Track A
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Acquisition lender
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Track A
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05
Exit planning advisor
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Track A
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06
Entity compliance and registered agent
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Track B
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07
Fractional CFO
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Track B
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08
Tax CPA
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Track B
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09
IT and cybersecurity
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Track B
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10
Commercial insurance
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Track B
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Litigation attorney
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Track C
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Commercial real estate broker
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Track C
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Revenue operations
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Track C
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Retention consultant
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Track C
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Cross-border trade advisor
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Track C
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Employment attorney
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Track D
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PEO and HR consultant
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Track D
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Operations consultant
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Track D
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Executive recruiter
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Track D
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Key-person insurance
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Track D
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Title and escrow
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Track E
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Transaction tax CPA
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Track E
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Wealth manager
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Track E
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Estate planning attorney
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Track E
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Immigration attorney
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Track E
The complete schedule
See every hour before you pick your rooms.
Every track shows its fireside conversation, all five concurrent talks, and the exact time for networking. You can attend five of the twenty-five talks live.
Track A: What It Is Actually Worth
10:00 AM - 11:30 AMBefore you fix anything, get the number and find out who decides it.
to 10:30 AM
All five track experts on stage together, one question each, then open discussion.
to 11:00 AM
- ROOM 1The number, and the three things that move it mostCertified valuation analyst
- ROOM 2What businesses your size are actually closing at right nowBusiness broker
- ROOM 3The financial review that confirms your number or ends itQuality of earnings specialist
- ROOM 4What a lender will finance, and how that caps your buyer's offerAcquisition lender
- ROOM 5Your valuation versus the number you need to actually walk awayExit planning advisor
to 11:30 AM
Leave with a short list of people worth following up with, not a stack of cards.
Track B: The Foundation
11:30 AM - 1:00 PMThe structure and records a buyer expects to already exist.
to 12:00 PM
All five track experts on stage together, one question each, then open discussion.
to 12:30 PM
- ROOM 1Good standing, filings, and the corporate record a buyer asks for firstEntity compliance and registered agent
- ROOM 2Books a buyer can read without calling youFractional CFO
- ROOM 3The entity election you made years ago and what it does to your saleTax CPA
- ROOM 4Your systems, your data, and the security questions on every diligence listIT and cybersecurity
- ROOM 5The policies a buyer checks and the gaps that stall a closingCommercial insurance
to 1:00 PM
Leave with a short list of people worth following up with, not a stack of cards.
Track C: Where the Revenue Is Fragile
1:00 PM - 2:30 PMContracts, customers, and the lease that decides your closing date.
to 1:30 PM
All five track experts on stage together, one question each, then open discussion.
to 2:00 PM
- ROOM 1The open dispute that freezes a sale, and how to close it out earlyLitigation attorney
- ROOM 2Your lease, your location, and whether either one transfersCommercial real estate broker
- ROOM 3Proving the pipeline is a system and not your personal phoneRevenue operations
- ROOM 4Concentration risk and how buyers price a business that leans on one clientRetention consultant
- ROOM 5Clients and suppliers across the border: jurisdiction, collection, continuityCross-border trade advisor
to 2:30 PM
Leave with a short list of people worth following up with, not a stack of cards.
Track D: The Business Without You
2:30 PM - 4:00 PMWhy buyers discount a company that runs on one person.
to 3:00 PM
All five track experts on stage together, one question each, then open discussion.
to 3:30 PM
- ROOM 1Classification, handbooks, and the HR file a buyer will openEmployment attorney
- ROOM 2Payroll, benefits, and keeping the team through a transitionPEO and HR consultant
- ROOM 3Documenting the business so it runs on process instead of on youOperations consultant
- ROOM 4Hiring the second in command the buyer wants to keepExecutive recruiter
- ROOM 5Funding the buy-sell you signed and covering the person the business cannot loseKey-person insurance
to 4:00 PM
Leave with a short list of people worth following up with, not a stack of cards.
Track E: Closed, Funded, and After
4:00 PM - 5:30 PMFrom the letter of intent to the wire, and the day after it lands.
to 4:30 PM
All five track experts on stage together, one question each, then open discussion.
to 5:00 PM
- ROOM 1Where the money sits and how it moves on closing dayTitle and escrow
- ROOM 2Asset or stock, allocation, and your real take-homeTransaction tax CPA
- ROOM 3The day after the wire, before the first quarter closesWealth manager
- ROOM 4Moving proceeds into the structure you should have built firstEstate planning attorney
- ROOM 5Foreign buyers, foreign sellers, and the visa questions that shape a dealImmigration attorney
to 5:30 PM
Leave with a short list of people worth following up with, not a stack of cards.
The room
You will meet 50 owners and advisors, not scroll past them.
Five networking windows run through the day, one after every track. Three minutes each, matched one to one, then you both decide whether it goes further. Nobody hands out a link and hopes.
Networking windows
Thirty minutes after every track, built into the schedule rather than bolted onto the end.
Introductions per attendee
Up to ten three-minute rounds in each window. You leave with a short list, not a stack of cards.
Professions in the room
One seat per profession on stage, so the advisors you meet each do something different.
Tickets open before the lineup is announced. Get the pricing and the full speaker list before it goes out anywhere else.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2027 · Live online
One day that decides what your business is worth.
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Before you decide
The questions owners actually ask.
If yours is not here, reply to the email you get after signing up and it will reach a person.
I am not planning to sell my business. Is this still for me?
That is exactly who the day is built for. Almost everything that lowers your price takes months or years to fix, and none of it can be fixed once a buyer is already at the table. The owners who get the most out of this are the ones with no sale in sight.
What does a ticket cost?
Pricing is being set now. Put your email in and you will have it before it goes public, along with the full speaker list.
Is this a day of sales pitches?
25 speakers, 25 different professions, one seat each. Every talk teaches its own piece of the exit, and the expert on stage is there to explain the work, not to walk you through a deck about their firm. If you want to talk to any of them afterward, the expo floor is open all day.
I cannot sit at a screen all day. Can I come for part of it?
Yes. The whole schedule is published above so you can pick the tracks that apply to you and skip the rest. Every session runs thirty minutes.
My state's rules are different. Does that matter?
For most of the day, no. Valuation, quality of earnings, what a lender will finance, add-backs, customer concentration and the tax treatment of a sale work the same wherever you are. Where state law does drive the answer, in employment, leases, entity records and estate structure, the session tells you what varies and exactly what to take to your own advisor.
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