Buying and Selling a Business

Contra Costa County Businesses for Sale
Small businesses for sale throughout the Contra Costa area.
USA BizMart
Small business blog and online workshops relating to buying and selling businesses.
Biz Buy Sell
An alliance with the Wall Street Journal's StartupJournal.com
BizQuest
A Business for sale marketplace of thousands of businesses for sale. Includes resources for buying a business or selling your business online.
Used Equipment Network
The Used Equipment Network lists over 75,000 pieces of used industrial, commercial, and professional equipment that are currently for sale by used equipment dealers.

Locate a Business Broker

Contra Costa County Business Brokers
Business broker directory of agents and brokers that service Contra Costa County business buyers and business owners.
California Association of Business Brokers
Members of this professional trade association are actively involved in assisting their clients in selling, buying, and evaluating businesses.
International Business Brokers Association, Inc.
The largest international non-profit association operating exclusively for the benefit of people and firms engaged in the various aspects of a business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions.

Buying and Selling a Business - Ira N. Nottonson
A title in the Entrepreneurial Legal series
The Complete Guide to Selling a Business - Fred S. Steingold
Provides step-by-step advice on preparing a solid sales agreement and other crucial documents, including promissory notes and the assignment of a lease.
Buying and Selling a Business - Robert F. Klueger
Includes everything you need to know about recent tax law changes, as well as an entirely new chapter on limited liability companies.
Buying a California Business: the ultimate guide for savvy business buyers - Peter Siegel
Addresses why business buyers in California fail and what they need to do to be successful. The author has worked with thousands of business buyers, both as a California business broker and as a consultant, and he also bought small businesses for himself during his early entrepreneurial years.
The Small Business Valuation Book - Lawrence W. Tuller
Easy-to-use techniques that will help you determine a fair price, negotiate terms, minimize taxes.
How to Buy & Sell a Business: how you can win in the business quadrant - Garrett Sutton
Discusses confidentiality, franchises, the elements of a selling prospectus, reading financial reports, valuations methods, negotiations to structure the deal, and tax considerations.

2010 Business Reference Guide: the Essential Guide to Pricing Business and Franchises - Thomas L. West
An A to Z list of general types of businesses - Accounting Firms to Window Cleaning. Provides rules of thumb for pricing, industry experts' ratings, expert comments, advantages and disadvantages, and benchmarks.
Business Reference Guide - 2008

Getting Out of Your Business
From the CCH Business Owner's Toolkit, gives you exit routes, planning for succession, transferring power, selecting a successor, how to deal with intergenerational conflict, and more.

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