How to Find a Business to Buy: Deal Origination
Most first-time acquirers wait for a broker to send them a deal. The operators who buy well go and find one. Here is how to source acquisition targets and build deal flow of your own.
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Preparing Your Business for Sale: The Owner's Checklist
A buyer's diligence is designed to find the weaknesses you left too late to fix. This is the owner's checklist for getting a business ready to sell — and ready to survive that scrutiny.
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Reduce Founder Dependency Before You Sell
A business that cannot run without its founder is a business a buyer will not pay full price for. Here is the programme to fix that in the 12–24 months before you sell.
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How to Sell Your Business: The 24-Month Exit Plan
Most owners start preparing to sell three months before they go to market. The ones who get the best price start twenty-four. Here is the plan, quarter by quarter.
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What Is My Business Worth to a Buyer?
A buyer does not pay for your accounts. They pay a multiple of normalised earnings, and they set that multiple on assets your balance sheet never shows. Here is how that number is built.
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Import a CSV into Opagio: The Complete General-Ledger Upload Guide
A step-by-step guide to importing a CSV general ledger into Opagio from any accounting system: exporting your figures, the template and the columns it expects, how validation and reconciliation work, where the data lands, and how to re-upload when your numbers change.
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Connect Xero to Opagio: The Complete Integration Setup Guide
A step-by-step technical guide to connecting your Xero organisation to Opagio: the OAuth authorisation flow, exactly which read-only scopes are requested, what data syncs and how far back, where it lands in the platform, and how to re-sync, audit, or disconnect.
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Opagio Pricing: Plans, Tiers, and How to Choose Your Plan
A complete guide to Opagio pricing: the free tools that need no sign-up, the Founder and Pre-Seed startup rates, company plans from £499/month, and the investor tiers for funds — plus a straightforward way to choose the plan that fits where you are.
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Opagio vs Traditional Intangible Asset Valuation: A Practical Comparison
Traditional intangible asset valuation means a one-off advisory engagement: a specialist firm, a fixed scope, a PDF months later. Opagio takes a different route — a structured, repeatable platform. Here is how the two compare on cost, speed, consistency, and auditability.
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Sector Benchmarking: How Opagio Compares Your Intangible Asset Value Against Industry Peers
How founders, PE partners, and advisors use Opagio Intangibles to benchmark their intangible asset value against sector peers — intangible share of enterprise value, driver-by-driver composition, and method inputs like royalty and discount rates, all measured against the right comparison set rather than a single headline average.
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IAS 38 Compliance: How Opagio Creates Audit-Ready Intangible Asset Documentation
How finance teams, accountants, and their auditors use Opagio Intangibles to turn intangible asset valuations into structured IAS 38 documentation — recognition screening against the standard's criteria, method-graded valuations with stored assumptions, and a dated audit trail that survives year-end scrutiny.
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Why Cash-Generative Fintechs Run With Small Teams and Massive Tech Stacks
At Capital.com, half the organisation was technology and the operational team was small. That operating model isn't fintech-specific — it's the template for any business where work can be turned into code. What it actually requires is a full redesign, not a workforce cut.
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