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Maximize Your Business Sale: 3 Key Steps for Entrepreneurs

In todays constantly evolving business world, entrepreneurs face countless tough decisionsbut perhaps none as crucial as when and how to sell their lifes work. As someone who has spent years studying the art of buying and selling businesses, I have seen just how many owners dont take three key steps in the processand often end up with problems and missed opportunities to maximize value.

Selling your business is a life-changing event, not only financially but in many cases the realization of years of work and sacrifice. Here are three critical steps to ensure maximum valuation, easy negotiations and a smooth sale.


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Arcade, a new AI product creation platform, designed this necklace | TechCrunch
Arcade has received $17 million in total funding from Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Offline Ventures, and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder). Other notable investors include Colin Kaepernick, Lumi founder and former NFL quarterback; David Luan, CEO of Adept AI Labs and former vice president of engineering at OpenAI; and supermodel and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss, among others.


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Trump Rally Opens With Insults Aimed at Latino, Black, Jewish and Arab American Voters
Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent, covering the 2024 campaign and the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics. He can be reached at [email protected]. More about Shane Goldmacher






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Pro-Harris Super PAC Raises Concerns About Focusing on Trump and Fascism
“Purely negative attacks on Trump’s character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris’s plans to address the needs of everyday Americans,” the email read.


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Behind the Tactical Gains Against Iran, a Longer-Term Worry
That is just what American strategists have been desperately trying to avoid for a quarter-century, using sabotage, cyberattacks and diplomacy to keep Tehran from crossing the threshold to become a full nuclear-armed power.




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Evo Morales accuses Bolivian government of trying to kill him
Morales is also facing allegations that he had relationships with minors. He was formally summoned by regional prosecutors to testify in the case but did not appear, and now faces an arrest warrant. Morales has denied the accusations.


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Trump takes stage at Madison Square Garden after speakers open with racist remarks ? live
"We're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook," Musk said. "America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. The future is going to be amazing."




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American Airlines tests boarding technology that calls out line cutters
American Airlines said that a gate agent politely lets the customer know they’re unable to accept the pass and asks the customer to rejoin the line when their boarding group is called. In some instances where a customer may be able to board out of order, such as when traveling with a companion of higher status, the agent has a quick way to override the alert and accept the pass, American Airlines said in the statement.


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Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead | TechCrunch
It's become a common refrain in political discourse: Europe needs to take radical action to remain competitive. On the long list of potential reforms, one




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Disrupt 2024 kicks off tomorrow and ticket prices increase | TechCrunch
Don’t miss out on your last chance to save up to $400 on your ticket! Or you can take advantage of our Expo+ 2-for-1 deal, where you can bring a +1 for only half the price of one Expo+ Pass. Don’t wait—these limited-time offers end tonight at 11:59 PM PT, and ticket prices will rise when the Disrupt doors open tomorrow morning!


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One chart shows how AI will drive another decade of US stock market dominance
JPM predicts that the US will continue to lead by market cap share in 2037 as artificial intelligence benefits expand beyond a few large tech names that have dominated the market rally.




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A 10-Day Test Is Coming for Bond Market Battered by Selloff
“There seems to be some correlation between the 10-year yield and Trump’s path to victory,” said George Catrambone, the head of fixed income for the Americas at DWS Group. That “seems to be equaling higher yields.”


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Should you buy Tesla stock now? The EV maker is 'charging up for the next wave of growth'
Bank of America rates Tesla stock a buy, Morgan Stanley calls it a top pick, and Wedbush puts it at outperform. But JPMorgan has it at underweight.




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A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them.
Before the Trump rally on Sunday, Ms. Harris had already taken aim at her Republican rival in a video message to Puerto Rican voters. She noted that, as president, Mr. Trump had resisted sending aid to the island after back-to-back hurricanes, adding that he had offered nothing but “paper towels and insults.”


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Tim Walz and AOC Play Madden and Crazy Taxi and Talk Politics
In their Bills-Vikings Madden matchup on Sunday, which Mr. Walz and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez played for just a scoreless first half, they discussed housing policy and she asked him about voters who might be frustrated by the huge sums of money in politics or by the Biden administration’s positions about the war in Gaza. Twitch showed that about 12,500 people were watching on Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s channel.




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Woman Who Left Boyfriend Zipped in a Suitcase Is Convicted of Murder
James Owens, Ms. Boone’s lawyer, described her as shocked, television news station WESH reported after the verdict on Friday. “She felt like she had a defense,” he said. Mr. Owens did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.


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Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion
The maneuver Mr. Raiklin laid out appears to defy the Electoral Count Reform Act, the bipartisan law passed in 2022. The law was meant to prevent a repeat of Mr. Trump’s attempt to exploit the Electoral College vote to overturn his defeat in 2020. It states that only state executives, not state legislatures, can certify the slates of electors that determine the winner.




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U.S. Navy Apologizes for the 1882 Bombardment of an Alaska Village
Though it is not precisely clear what led up to the attack, it is generally agreed that it started with the accidental death of a Tlingit shaman, who was killed when a harpoon gun exploded on a whaling ship owned by his employer, the North West Trading Company, according to The Associated Press.


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JD Vance Calls Some Democrats More Dangerous Than Foreign Adversaries
Maggie Astor covers politics for The Times, focusing on breaking news, policies, campaigns and how underrepresented or marginalized groups are affected by political systems. More about Maggie Astor


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Advisers Propose That Trump Give Security Clearances Without F.B.I. Vetting
Asked about the proposal, Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, responded with an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she and Democrats “have weaponized the Department of Justice to attack President Trump and his supporters” and that Mr. Trump would use “the full powers of the presidency” to build his administration starting on Inauguration Day.


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Beyonc? Springsteen? Trump Fans Feel Both Anger and A-List Envy
The stampede of stars stumping for Ms. Harris in the final days of the presidential campaign just reinforced a grand narrative that Mr. Trump and his supporters tell themselves about the journey they are on together, in which they must take on all sorts of powerful forces arrayed against them. Movie stars and military generals, media personalities and musicians — it’s all one big cabal between Washington, New York and Hollywood. Beyoncé is the Deep State.


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'Trump 2024' Was Projected on a Town's Water Tower. A Standoff Ensued.
“This is a deeply unfortunate and unnecessary situation that the town of Hanson and its residents and government officials did not ask to be placed in,” the town’s five-member governing board wrote in a statement last week. Town officials did not respond to written questions from The Times, including about how much the town is spending on the spotlights.


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Donald Trump Will Never Be Done With New York
On Sunday, Mr. Trump is bringing his presidential campaign to Madison Square Garden, the brashest stop in a final election stretch that has showcased the race-baiting, bravado and grievance-soaked distortions that defined much of his New York life and have only been amplified since he left.


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Faisal Islam: Don't expect rabbits, it will be a boffins' Budget
It is why on Thursday morning she and her team are expecting some anger from wealthier taxpayers and bad headlines in certain newspapers. But the flip-side will be relief for hard-pressed users of many public services, and especially what the Treasury hopes will be tranquil financial markets as she embarks on a long-term programme of long-delayed investments in Britain’s economic future.


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When is the Budget and what might be in it?
The Treasury, the government department in charge of the economy and public spending, publishes a report alongside the Budget speech. It gives more details about the measures announced and what they will cost.


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No new freeports to come in Budget after 'comms cock-up'
A Treasury spokesperson said the government was keen to reassure firms planning to invest in the low-tax zones that plans had not changed, emphasising that the government was still committed "to ensuring the custom benefits remain on offer".


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Budget: No tax rises in payslips for 'working people', says Bridget Phillipson
IFS director Paul Johnson said "eye-wateringly tough choices" would be needed if the government wanted to stick to a self-imposed rule that debt must be falling as a proportion of the size of the economy in five years' time.


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Bezos Was Expected to Make a Splash in Washington. But He Never Arrived.
“Even as a C.E.O. of Amazon with a huge amount of regulatory issues, he was rarely seen in town,” Hilary Rosen, a Democratic political strategist and former Washington editor for The Huffington Post, said of Mr. Bezos. “I don’t know if he ever intended to be a business or media industry leader in D.C., but he certainly hasn’t become one.”


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No E. Coli Found in Samples of McDonald's Beef Patties, Officials Say
A McDonald’s spokesman said that the number may rise, as federal regulators process case information, but said that they were “very confident” that they had removed the source of contamination from the supply chain.


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California Governor Proposes $750 Million in Annual Film Tax Credits
It’s hard. This process involves vast sums of tax revenue that states are owed but never collect. Because the money does not come into the state treasury to begin with, it is less obvious that the revenue has been lost. And that can make transferable tax credits politically palatable.


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Tom Jarriel, Globetrotting ABC News Reporter, Is Dead at 89
Ms. Tomlin recalled: “We found children in cages, with their heads shaved, four to a crib, some in straitjackets. It was like Auschwitz. The children were dying from malnutrition and fixable things.”


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McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers to return to restaurants affected by E. coli outbreak
Based on reported cases so far, the outbreak took place between Sept. 27 and Oct. 11. Over a two-week period, McDonald's typically sells roughly one million Quarter Pounders in the affected region, according to company spokespeople.


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Mark Cuban says he has 'no interest' in a White House cabinet position as he campaigns for Harris
Earlier this month, for example, Cuban suggested that if the vice president wins the White House, she should fire Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who has become the face of a staunchly consumer focused, antitrust agenda.


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Measured Comments From Israel and Iran on New Round of Strikes
Although Iranian officials emphasized that their country has the right to respond, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said late Saturday that the country would “answer any stupidity with wisdom and strategy.”


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In Iran's Capital, Murals Offer Tributes and Threats Against Israel
Supporters of Iran’s government often gather for protests in Palestine Square donning checkered kaffiyehs and waving the flags of Palestine and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that Iran also backs. A tent is set up to collect aid donations for Palestinians and Lebanese.


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For the World Series, Fans Found Creative Ways to Reach Dodger Stadium
L.A. is known as a vastly horizontal city built on freeways — a car culture with directional challenges that have been ridiculed on shows such as “Saturday Night Live” in the recurring skit “The Californians,” and written about in pop songs like the ’80s hit “Walking in L.A.” by Missing Persons.


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Opinion | No One Tells You What Happens to Your Muscles in Your 40s
Fortunately, there’s good science on how to do that, specifically through strength training and hormone therapy, the latter more often recommended for women than men. Rarely are people in their 40s getting these messages.


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DJ Clark Kent, Who Introduced Jay-Z to the Notorious B.I.G., Dies at 58
“I practically knew every rapper before they made their records,” Mr. Franklin told the pop culture publication Complex. “They wanted to be familiar with the D.J.s and what was happening in hip-hop. I was happening in hip-hop.”


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Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren't raking in views
Instagram head Adam Mosseri explained in an AMA how performance can affect the quality of videos on the platform.


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Apple may tap into a beloved retro design for its smart home display
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the smart home display will feature a small, square screen mounted on a base, 'making it reminiscent of the circular bottom of the iMac G4.'


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Panic hits pause on the Playdate Stereo Dock, says it's unlikely we'll see it anytime soon
The team says it’s now turning its focus wholly back to the continuing production of the Playdate. There may still be a chance that we see the Stereo Dock at some point down the line, but don’t hold your breath. “Will it arrive someday? We still hope so,” Panic said. “Will it arrive anytime soon? Unlikely.”


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Google is reportedly developing 'Jarvis' AI that could take over your web browser
The news of Jarvis comes days after Anthropic introduced a similar but seemingly more expansive feature for its Claude AI, which it says has been equipped with computer skills so it can “use a wide range of standard tools and software programs designed for people.” That’s available now in a public beta.


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Crash between cargo truck and bus in Mexico kills 19 and injures six
The accident, on a highway that connects Zacatecas with the central state of Aguascalientes, occurred when a container filled with corn fell off the truck, causing the bus with 25 people onboard to overturn.


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Japan's ruling coalition to lose majority in election, national broadcaster says
"Even if I were to switch to an opposition party, it's still unclear whether they could push forward reforms, and I don't know if I can trust them or not at this point," Ito said. "I want to see the party in power continue to move forward."


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Japan gripped by two things: a general election and Shohei Ohtani's shoulder
On the eve of his first World Series, Ohtani told reporters that he felt "blessed and really grateful" to be playing. If the boy from an unfashionable town in Japan's northeast can avoid injury and retain his scintillating form with the bat, he will earn the gratitude of an entire nation.


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Australia news live: Dutton calls PM's reported requests for Qantas upgrades 'a bit strange' and defends own upgrades
"[Transport minister] Catherine King has approved, since the Qatar decision, extra flights for Turkish Airways, so it's not as if we have some sort of blanket ban against airlines flying into Australia to protect Qantas."


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John Farnham opens up about his 'abusive' and 'sexually aggressive' first manager
The rock band Masters Apprentices sacked Sambell too after Glenn Wheatley, then a member of the band, realised he was pocketing their profits; Wheatley would later become Farnham's manager and close friend. Sambell died of cancer in 2001 aged 55.


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Labor lost Queensland election partly because it was obsessed with the Greens, Chandler-Mather says
Asked on Sunday about Labor’s victory in South Brisbane, Miles said he did not want to comment on other parties. “Those wider results are more for you guys to discuss,” the outgoing premier said.


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Corporations using 'ineffectual' carbon offsets are slowing path to 'real zero', more than 60 climate scientists say
The council organising the pledge is convened by the Minderoo Foundation, co-founded by the iron ore mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, who has described net zero as a "fantasy" and urged companies to focus on ending their use of fossil fuels instead.


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High-flying life of Australia's birds revealed in new detail ? thanks to weather radars
Such information could have implications for threatened birds such as the orange-bellied parrot and the swift parrot, Dooley said. "More detailed studies could help protect other partially migratory mainland species such as the critically endangered regent honeyeater," he added.


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Georgia's pro-EU opposition calls for protest over 'rigged' election result
In Russia, the election results were widely welcomed. As the results trickled in, state propaganda celebrated the outcome, with Margarita Simonyan, the influential editor-in-chief of the state media outlet RT, declaring that "the Georgians had won".




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