Dr. Allie Taylor is the co-founder of advisory firm Orange Kiwi, which works with lower middle market and middle market advisors and business owners to achieve successful business transitions. Allie has an extensive academic background in business and psychology, and Orange Kiwi takes a fundamentally psychological approach to its work…

Every M&A advisor has encountered sell-side clients with lofty valuation expectations. “And why not? Most have spent a lifetime building their business, so if we think of the selling price as a report card, it’s no wonder they want to make the honor roll,” says Dexter Braff, president of health…

In 1997, seven frustrated toolmakers banded together to launch Rapid Production Tooling, an injection mold tooling company based in Berthoud, CO. “The company where we all came from had just been sold to a different company and we didn’t like the outcome, so we left and started our own business,”…