Here are some credible short articles, online,
about the subject.
Thought you might find them instructive.:
"Writing a Business Plan - Planning Your Exit Strategy"
from the "Entrepreneurs" section of About.com
A nice simple short summary of the forms of exits, and basic issues.
online at:
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/businessplan/a/exitstrategy.htm
(good intro to the next article...)
"Exit Strategies for Your Business"
A frank tutorial by someone who's been there, a lot.
from Entrepreneur magazine
by Stever Robbins - a veteran of nine startups over 25 years and author of
"It Takes a Lot More than Attitude to Lead a Stellar Organization." He
co-designed the "Foundations" segment of Harvard's MBA program and has has
appeared on CNN-fn and in the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily
and Harvard Business Review.
online at:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/78512
"Getting Out"
Business-exit options and issues,
a list of very short articles from the SBA (U.S. Small Business Administration).
online at:
http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/
managing-business/getting-out
Some of these articles have relevant external links to outside info -- to
SCORE, or IRS, or a site that sells legal forms (with free previews), etc.
This includes links to...
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A particularly succinct, relevant SBA article:
"Transfer Ownership"
online at:
http://www.sba.gov/content/transfer-ownership
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Also, a checklist of topics for
"Selling Your Business"
online at:
http://www.sba.gov/content/selling-your-business
All told, these can all be read in under an hour,
and complement each other fairly well.
~ Richard