Most owners ask what their business is worth only when they're ready to sell. That's the wrong order. I'm Ravi Yeleswarapu — a business advisor with Murphy Business Sales. I help owners read their number, close the gaps, and walk into their next chapter already prepared.
You don't wait until you're sick to get a physical. Most owners do exactly that with their business.
Selling a business takes time. By the time the question is urgent, the answers are mostly already written. The owners who get the best outcomes treat valuation as a recurring read on the firm they have today — not a transaction event.
A Broker Opinion of Value is a check-up: an outside read of what your business looks like to someone who isn’t you. Then, when you’re ready, a sell-side or buy-side process run with that same discipline.
Learn more →Most owners exit once. The best exits are engineered years ahead — closing the gaps in concentration, key-person risk and revenue mix while there’s still time to move the number.
Learn more →The business and the life it funds are one system. Clear, unsentimental planning for companies and the individuals who run them — so the proceeds of a lifetime’s work actually do their job.
Learn more →You don’t wait until you’re sick to get a physical. Most owners do exactly that with their business.
The gap is rarely about perception. It’s about specification — the discipline that produces a buyer’s number, applied to your own books.
I spent years inside corporate M&A, making acquired companies actually work — then sat in the owner’s chair myself.
That mix is the point. I read a business the way diligence does — concentration, key-person risk, revenue mix, the real cost of running it without you — but I’ve also made payroll and felt the weight of a number that’s wrong. The empathy is earned.
Read the full story →Not because you’re selling — because you want to know. That first conversation is free, and honest. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll tell you who is.