Recent content by Sak07

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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Clinton: Thanks for the free advice - wasn't really what was asked but you clearly wanted to demonstrate your "knowledge" so there you go. Re Numpty, lovely - I was actually very polite till you starting talking down to me. Cheers, best of luck.
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Clinton: Looking forward to your training programme: "Sell your business for 100% cash" - upsell access to your "registered all cash buyers" list. You'd be fighting them off - you can rant about "short shrift with me" for anyone not able to prove £4m in liquid cash in the bank... Brye...
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Clinton : I understand - all talk.... Brye: Yep money is cheap for unicorn Tech ideas that can wrap institutional money up it promises and stories - but I dont see it trickling down to small SME's not in the UK anyway. Happy to pointed in the right direction though, as mentioned very much a...
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Errr - so the large % of businesses that have no management team in place, exist in a declining sector and struggle to make a profit through the cycle should what !? Re who am I talking too - based on recent experience (9 years of looking). If you can shoot me your contact details I know one...
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Clinton: Thanks. Agree on those points re distressed businesses, though isn't the big issue that there is not a huge number of cash rich buyers looking to buy unsexy (engineering, HVAC, manufacturing) SME's ? As someone who may be selling at some point in the near future it seems incredibly...
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    Mark Jones: PG's almost certainly would be required for borrowing against the assets agreed. The LBO model isn't one I can see being terribly successful at the SME level - the number of companies that can sustain cash flows to pay off new debt & be worth the hassle & risk (PG) are absolutely...
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    Harbour Club: any views or opinons

    The Harbour Club teaches M&A tactics and covers a range of strategies for acquiring, fixing and selling distressed and indeed high quality solvent businesses. I have attended a couple of Jeremy Harbour's case study days in 2009 - he use to run a one day case study course which I attended in...
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    Payment Gateway costs are killing my idea

    Hi, I am doing some due dilligence on a online gaming business I wish to set up. Everything is in place - the software has been planned and quotes taken for the work, checked on UK legislation and identified the gaming license I require, market research has been done, website design has been...