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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Three differences between selling your product and selling your business

If you’ve got years of experience with growing your business, selling its products or services to hundreds of customers, how different can it be to sell the business itself? Sales is sales, right? Well, not so fast.   The day-to-day experience of sales does have some commonality with the M&A experience — you’re connecting with folks who […]

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

8 Reasons to Hire an Investment Banker when Selling Your Business

“He who represents himself has a fool for a client.”  While Abraham Lincoln was talking about lawyers, a recent empirical study shows the same could be said for business owners who forego the services of an investment banker when selling their business. A research paper on “The Value of Middle Market Investment Bankers” published by […]

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Congratulations to Eutecus on its Sale to Sensity Systems and Subsequently Verizon

I would like to offer my congratulations to Csaba Rekeczky and the folks at Eutecus on the successful sale of their company to Sensity Systems (see http://merger.com/transactions/eutecus-acquired-sensity-systems/).  The entire Mirus team, including Peter Alternative and I, are proud to have acted as advisors in this transaction and are pleased to play a part in helping […]

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Answers to Questions from Middle Market C-Suite Executives: Part 1

This week Mirus partner Andrew Crain is answering questions from C-suite executives of middle market companies about investment bankers’ role advising private business owners: Question:  Ideally, how long before a business is put on the market should an investment banker be involved? What are the risks to involving a banker too early? That’s a great […]

Sunday, March 15, 2015

A 10-Year Review & Analysis of Med-Tech Funding Trends

In the past, the next step would be for venture or institutional funds to take technology through to approval and market introduction. For a fairly straightforward 510K device this might be another $1 to 3 million. For a PMA device it could run upwards of $30 to 50 million or more. No matter where you are […]

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

4 ways to maintain confidentiality when selling a business

Many business owners we work with when selling a company express deep concerns about maintaining the confidentiality of the M&A process:  “If my competitors learn that my business is for sale, they’ll tell their sales force and all my customers will know.” This is a concern with which I’m painfully familiar.When selling my family’s fifth-generation […]

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Psychology of Selling a Business

There are many reasons why owners and founders come to Mirus Capital Advisors to sell their business, and I will spare you a comprehensive list, but in 17 years of selling businesses, I’ve been fascinated to see how often psychology comes into the decision-making process.   By far, the most common answer to the question […]

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Who would buy my company?

Many business owners are surprised to learn that large, often global, companies are active acquirers of lower middle market businesses.  A company much larger than yours may be the right acquirer for your business. There’s a rule-of-thumb in M&A that the likely acquirer for a business is 3-10x larger than the seller.  Large enough to […]