Consulting Firm Valuation Multiple: What Buyers Pay For
Consulting firm valuation multiple explained: why a buyer pays six times more for the same revenue, with four rungs and the eight levers acquirers check.
LE LIRE ▸Four Week Vacation Test: A Seven Point Business Audit
Four week vacation test explained: run the seven stress points, score them red, amber or green and follow a quarter by quarter plan to get out of the way.
LIRE ▸Bill Clients Upfront: Collect First and Deliver Later
Bill clients upfront and the same consultancy funds its own growth with no credit line. See the cash gap, the flip and five places to move collection ahead.
LIRE ▸Founder Stuck in Delivery: Why Speed Keeps You Trapped
Founder stuck in delivery work? Getting faster at it is the most convincing disguise for dependence. Spot the three forces and audit your own week to get out.
LIRE ▸Consulting Income Ceiling: Why Better Craft Will Not Grow It
Consulting income ceiling explained: revenue is time times rate and hours are capped. Why craft alone fails and how to replace the formula with one that scales.
LIRE ▸Service Business Valuation Multiples From 1x to 15x
Service business valuation multiples run from 1x to 15x revenue. See what changes at every stage, from a job to a system that outearns the founder who built it.
LIRE ▸Revenue per Employee: When Hiring Subtracts Capacity
Revenue per employee tells you if hires create leverage or management work. See why it often falls after the fifth hire and which three hires are worth making.
LIRE ▸Company of One: Why Growth by Default Is Not a Strategy
Company of One lessons for service founders: growth is a decision, not a law. Learn the readiness audit and why restraint is how fast growers got fast.
LIRE ▸LTV CAC Ratio: Is Your Service Business Growth Paying Off
LTV CAC ratio for service founders: divide client lifetime value by the cost of winning them. Find your number, read it and move it. Benchmark: 3 to 1 floor.
LIRE ▸Service Business Due Diligence: The Eight Question Audit
Service business due diligence in eight questions: is the service an asset or you, how the money behaves, and how growth works. Score yourself first, today.
LIRE ▸Systemize a Service Business So the System Is the Asset
Systemize a service business and the value moves from your head to a process anyone can run. Run the calendar audit and see the multiple you leave on the table.
LIRE ▸Turn Expertise Into IP: Four Moves a Buyer Would Pay For
Turn expertise into IP in four moves: brand it, write it down, make delivery uniform and fence it legally, so a buyer can acquire what is in your head.
LIRE ▸Methodology Licensing: License It or Deliver It Yourself
Methodology licensing and your own client work cannot share one price list. See why the hybrid caps your valuation and how to exit delivery in four moves.
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