Making Your Transactions Worth It, with Richard Kestenbaum, Co-founder and Partner at Triangle Capital LLC
Richard Kestenbaum is the co-founder and a partner at Triangle Capital LLC for almost 20 years. Richard is an investment banker who focuses on acquisitions, mergers, and capital-raising for consumer-facing companies. He is also a frequent contributor to Forbes Magazine for almost four years now, and with over 35 years specializing in retail, consumer sectors, and retail, he brings to the table expert advice on how to create financial success in a commercial setting.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Richard Kestenbaum describes how his company helps creative founders with their business
The trade-offs between who we want to be and how we live our lives and why truth and peace are opposites
What is the documents rule and why it’s so important
Common stumbling blocks for creatives in getting financed and how they can overcome these
The importance of making long-term business decisions that increases their long-term value
The value of finding the right partner for your company and how to work with the sensitivities of a founder’s identity
In this episode…
Buying and selling a company can be an emotional rollercoaster. Whether you’re building your company in hopes of selling it one day or you have intentions of keeping it for the long term, the decisions you make will have an impact on the company’s success and in its capacity to gain and maintain capital. Richard Kestenbaum, who is the co-founder and partner at Triangle Capital LLC, works with founders as they work their way through mergers, acquisitions, and many more aspects of the commercial sector.
In this week's episode of Wish I'd Known That, host Betsy Pearce interviews Richard Kestenbaum, co-founder and partner of Triangle Capital, about how he helps companies raise capital for their business or to sell control of their business. He talks about the artistic value of a business versus the marketable part of their company, his insights on the selling and buying process while maintaining a flexible mind, and the honest expectation on what happens after the change of control. Stay tuned.
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Betsy Pearce is the founder of Pearce LLP. She is a lawyer and professional coach for creative lawyers, executives, and founders. She helps them navigate the process of mergers and acquisitions, and she also provides them great insight on finding the right people to work with in business.
To learn more about Betsy and the services she offers, contact her at pearce@pearcellp.com or visit her coaching website and her legal representation website.