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The Monday Morning Memo

Uh-oh. Wizzo bought another Quixote painting.
This one was painted by Juan Angel Gastelum, the same dude
that sculpted the bronze Quixote in the Fist of the Giant that sits on
the glass table in the center of the Don and Sherry Kuhl Art Gallery
in the tower. You know, the one 
that casts a windmill shadow. (Below.)

Gastelum calls the painting ‘Steampunk Quixote.’
Wizzo told me he bought it because it speaks of how Don Quixote
sees the world through different lenses than the rest of us. Or, to put it
in the words of the immortal Calvin speaking to Hobbes, “I’m not in
denial. I’m just very selective about the reality I choose to accept.”

 

 Quixote saw the windmill as a giant to be defeated.
Quixote in the hand of the giant
is Quixote lifted on the arms of the windmill.

The windmill, according to Wizzo, symbolizes death, and 
Quixote is a symbol of Christ, who said, “Death is a giant
that must be defeated and I’m the guy to do it.”

The windmill lifted Quixote on its wooden arms and slammed him
into the ground. But Quixote rose, and the journey was begun.
This is just one of the dozens of corrollaries between the story of
Don Quixote and the story of Jesus. Accidental? Maybe.
Only Cervantes knows for sure.


 

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I have worked with almost 100 people that sold businesses. Here is what I have learned.
Almost all professional business acquirers do this strategy. There is a due diligence clause that they can use to lower the price. And here is how they use this clause. The closing is on an afternoon on Friday (yes, almost always a Friday). And here is what happens. At noon on Friday the buyers drops the price. They tell you they have come across something that says the price is now 20-30% lower.  They bank on the owner having emotionally sold.  They bank on the owner having made plans to celebrate on the weekend.  The champagne is on ice. And they cannot emotionally walk away. To fight this the seller needs to stay emotionally ready to walk.  That is the power the seller has.
The second thing that I have seen. Selling a business is a slow process and the closer it gets to the closing of the sale the more the owner gets tempted to stop investing in the business. Stop growing it. They can mentally and emotionally check out. That is a dangerous thing to do. Especially if a sale falls through. Then they have to get the momentum going again.
The last thing. Most sellers do not actually know what their business is worth. If I was selling a business I would invest in hiring someone to handle the negotiation. But again, that is just me. Not sure if I would stick my head into that hornets nest.
So, if I was going to give the seller advice. It would be this. Run the business like you are owning it for the next 20 years. It is not sold until the cheque is cashed. You give the buyer power when you emotionally, in your mind, sell the business. As a seller, your power is the willingness to walk away from the sale.

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