[This is a guest article written by Virginia M. Turezyn. She is a managing partner at Sival Advisors LLC, a boutique M&A advisory firm for technology and service businesses in the middle market.]
If you think it’s been a challenge to build your company, grow your customer base, hire and retain the right talent and eke out a profit over the years…now you are about to be put through a daunting set of hurdles to prove it to a skeptical buyer. Every stone will be unturned and achieving your forecast during the process may be one of the toughest tests of all.