Francis Farwell, founder of WinterSilks Inc., a Middleton, Wis., mail-order apparel company, planned to sell his business from the start. Based on that decision, he built the business accordingly. Instead of plowing all his earnings into growth, he made sure the company maintained a sizable free cash flow, making it more attractive to potential buyers. In 1990, Farwell sold out, pocketing several million dollars.
By the late 90's the financial buyers changed their representative on the Board of Directors and he went from having a very reasonable, benevolent representatives from the financial buyers to a difficult person who had been very successful in business but who did not understand small business. And ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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