Selling Your Business to a Search Fund
What is a Search Fund? A search fund is an entrepreneurial investment model where an aspiring entrepreneur, known as the searcher, raises funds from investors to finance their search for...
Author: Bill Grunau
Bill has over 20 years of experience as a Business Broker specializing in industries ranging from manufacturing to construction/contractors, technology and software, B2B services, distribution-3PL, and healthcare.
His transaction experience includes successfully closed transactions as both stock sales and asset sales including transactions with licensing such as contractors, healthcare, and companies with government contracts in Orange County and other Southern California locations. Bill works closely with a team of financial advisors specializing in tax strategies to minimize taxes on the sale of a business and are available to advise clients on how to minimize the tax liability on the sale of their business.
Bill is the author of “Own Your Future, Straight Talk about How to Buy a Business and Build Your Future”
Bill has a BS in Electrical & Electronic Engineering studying at Cal Poly Pomona and West Coast University and also studied at Claremont Graduate school EMBA program.
Great Resignation Drives Business Acquisitions & Business Sales
Bill Grunau has been a business broker for over 20 years and as the founder of Pacific Business Sales. Recently, he did an informative podcast with Mark Imperial of the Business Innovators Magazine....
Is Now a Good Time To Sell Or Buy A Business? Interest Rates dropped again! Is another coming in December?
How will the 2025 economy and declining interest rates affect small businesses and the M&A market? Updated November 7th, 2024 after J Powell announced another cut in the Fed Rate...
Corporate Counsel’s Corner: Stock Sale vs Asset Sale; Which One is Better?
When buying or selling a corporation one of the primary considerations is how to approach the sale – should it be a transfer of assets or stocks? You may be...
Seller Financing in the Sale of a Business, is it Always Required?
A common question business owners have for business brokers is whether seller financing (carrying a seller note) the only option for selling a small to mid-sized business. The answer is...
What’s the Value of Using a Business Broker? A million+ dollars to this business owner!
What’s the real value of using a business broker to a business owner/seller? Is it generating inquiries and bringing buyers to the table, drafting the purchase agreement, negotiating the deal...
Minimizing Taxes without Adversely Affecting Business Value
As business brokers, we work with a variety of business owners selling their businesses; and in the course of working with them, we have found a number of common misconceptions...
Will Prime Rate Increases Affect Small & Mid-Sized Business Sales and Acquisitions?
June 2024 UpdateUS Prime Rate still holding steady at 8.5% after June 2024 Fed meeting The Fed Rate remains unchanged after the June 2024 meeting, which left the US Prime...
7 Tips To Achieve Maximum Value For Your Manufacturing Company
Manufacturing businesses have historically been, and continue to be, in high demand for acquisition by entrepreneurs and Equity Groups. Consequently, manufacturing companies such as machine shops, production manufacturing, contract manufacturing,...
How to Pick the Right-Best Business Broker to Sell Your Business
After deciding to sell your business, the next step, and critical decision, is who will represent you in the sale of your business and guide you through the process. Your...