Focus On Maximizing EBITDA To Gain Top Dollar For Your Private Business

Frequently, owners of small businesses obsess about the multiple their company will fetch when sold. While the multiple is important – a business sold at 9 times EBITDA is worth 50 percent more than i...

She called herself the Mother Teresa of Florida small-business lending, but investigators say she was really running a $194 million Ponzi scheme

Johanna Garcia claimed her merchant cash-advance business was so helpful to small businesses in Florida that she was like the Catholic saint Mother Teresa. But to the 15,400 investors who sank $194.1 ...

Apple decimated Meta’s adtech empire. Now, it’s honing in on its advertisers

In terms of Silicon Valley feuds, you’d be hard pressed to find one that’s spicier than the years-long battle between Meta and Apple. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg started steering his company to...

Small-business chief in Downing Street talks over late payments

The new chair of the Federation of Small Businesses is in talks with Downing Street over how to tackle the problem of late payments from large companies to small UK suppliers that is holding back grow...

Warriors Rooting, College Coaching & Small-Business Funding Keep Gary Payton Very Busy

Former NBA star Gary Payton. Visual China Group via Getty Images It’s been a busy time for retired Hall of Fame point guard Gary Payton, who may be 53 but remains about as active as he was during his ...