When you want to exit your business, you want to know you’re doing it right. Learning from someone who not only exited their own business successfully but also developed a strategy easily replicated for other business owners is a great step to exiting successfully.

In this episode, Mark Dorman speaks with Scott Snider, President of the Exit Planning Institute, on his entrepreneurial journey, starting from his first business shining shoes for his father as a child. They discuss the value acceleration methodology developed by his father and how it helps business owners successfully exit their companies. 

Scott discusses: 

• How he started his entrepreneurial journey
  
• What the Value Acceleration Methodology is
  
• The benefit of exit planning institutes for business owners
  
• How Covid changed their business method for the better
  
• And more
  

Resources:

• Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top by Bo Burlingham
  

Connect with Mark Dorman: 

• LinkedIn: Mark Dorman
  
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• Call: (330) 350-5410
  
• Email Mark: mdorman@dla-team.com
  
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Connect with Scott Snider:

• LinkedIn: Scott Snider
  

About our Guest: 

Scott Snider is the President of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) and the Operating Partner of Snider Premier Growth, a small family investment company. Scott is a nationally recognized industry leader, growth specialist, and lifetime entrepreneur. He launched his first business at the age of 17. At 24, he sold to a strategic buyer (his first “exit”) and joined his fathers, Chris Snider, private exit planning and M&A firm Aspire Management. At the time, the firm was looking to dominate Northeast Ohio’s exit planning space.

With their passion for business strategy and serving owners and advisors alike, Scott and his father Chris purchased the Exit Planning Institute (EPI), introduced the Value Acceleration Methodology, wrote an award-winning book called Walking to Destiny, and effectively increased the business size by 10x.