You should run a business as if it’s going to last forever, but you could sell it tomorrow if you had to.

In this episode, Mark Dorman is joined once more by Bo Burlingham, contributing writer for Forbes and the renowned author of Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies On Top, diving into the different stages of exit planning and the strategies behind building a successful exit strategy.

Bo discusses: 

• How the idea of an exit planning book came to be and why Bo wanted to write it
  
• The four stages of exit planning in detail
  
• Why all four stages are essential no matter where you want to end your time in the company
  
• How exit planning impacts those around you
  
• And more
  

Resources:

• Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top by Bo Burlingham
  
• Bo Burlingham – Forbes
  
• Bo Burlingham’s Books – Amazon
  

Connect with Bo Burlingham:

• LinkedIn: Bo Burlingham
  

Connect with Mark Dorman: 

• LinkedIn: Mark Dorman
  
• Legacy Business Advisors
  
• Call: (330) 350-5410
  
• Email Mark: mdorman@dla-team.com
  
• LinkedIn: Legacy Business Advisors
  
• Facebook: Legacy Business Advisors
  

About our Guest: 

Bo Burlingham is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books, the most recent being Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top (Portfolio/Penguin, 2014). A previous book, Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big (Portfolio/Penguin, 2006), was one of five finalists for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. 

A former Fulbright Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Burlingham graduated from Princeton University in 1967 with a B.A. in public and international affairs. Bo and his wife, Lisa, have been married for 44 years and live in Oakland, California, and Sancerre, France. They have two children and four grandchildren.