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FREE BUSINESS VALUATION

Know what your business is really worth.

Most founders find out the hard way — when a buyer hands them a number that's nothing like what they imagined. The Free Business Valuation tells you the truth now, while you still have time to do something about it.

"You'll sell one business in your life. The buyer has done it a hundred times."

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Free · Confidential · No obligation

THE RULE OF SUCCESSFUL EXITS

Sell on the way up, not on the way down.

Every founder who builds a great business eventually faces the same question: am I selling at the top — or am I waiting too long?

The ones who win it started preparing years before any buyer made an offer. They knew their number. They knew their value drivers. They didn't get caught reacting to a market they couldn't control.

3×

Operator exits behind every valuation

11

Books on the S.C.A.L.E. framework

$2B+

In closed brokerage transactions

STEP 1 OF 3 · REQUEST YOUR VALUATION

Three steps to a clearer exit.

No long calls upfront. No commitments. A structured path from "what's it worth?" to a real answer and a real plan — straight from an operator who's been in your seat.

1

Fill out the form

Submit your contact details and let us know you're interested. Takes 60 seconds.

2

Answer a few questions

A short follow-up so we can put real numbers behind your valuation, not guesses.

3

Book your strategy call

Get on a call with a real broker. Walk through your number and get clear insights into selling your business.

WHAT YOU GET

✓A real valuation range based on current market multiples.
✓The three drivers moving your number up — and the three pulling it down.
✓Benchmarked against recent comparable exits in your category.
✓A strategy call with a real broker to walk you through it all.

Your information is 100% confidential and never shared.

FULL-SERVICE BROKERAGE

From valuation
to closed deal.

If you're ready to sell, we don't just hand you a number and walk away. We're a full-service M&A brokerage — handling the entire process from initial valuation through buyer matching, negotiation, due diligence, and close.

An extensive pool of vetted buyers actively looking for businesses just like yours, paired with operators who've sat in your seat.

$2B+

In closed transactions

Across e-commerce, DTC, and operator-led businesses.

End-to-end

Valuation through close

Buyer matching, deal structure, diligence, negotiation, close.

Vetted

Active buyer pool

Serious capital looking for serious businesses.

MB

FOUNDER · MARK BOTHA

Three exits. Eleven books.
One operator who's been in your seat.

Mark has built and exited three businesses, written eleven books on the S.C.A.L.E. framework, and now runs the brokerage that brings operators to the same outcome he had. This isn't theory. It's the exact path he walked, refined into a service.

3× Founder & Exiter 11 Books Author 5.0★ Built to Exit

Sell on the way up.
Not the way down.

The best exits happen when founders prepare years before anyone makes an offer. Start with knowing your number.

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THE STORIES BEING BUILT HERE

Four founders. Four turning points.

These are the kinds of breakthroughs members are working toward inside the Academy — each one a different stage of the same journey.

THE OPERATIONAL WIN

“I finally got out of the day-to-day.”

I came in drowning. Every fire ended on my desk, and I'd convinced myself that was just what owning a business looked like. The first 90 days inside the Academy weren't about exit strategy — they were about basic operating discipline. SOPs, ownership maps, a leadership layer that actually decides things. By month four, I was off three group chats and the team didn't notice. That was the moment I knew it was working.

Andre Frank
Operational breakthrough
Exit Academy Member

THE EXIT

“We sold on our terms.”

I’d been told I had a $4M business. I never quite believed it — the buyer in my head always assumed there was a catch. The Academy made me build the company a buyer would actually pay a premium for: clean financials, documented systems, ownership that didn’t live in my inbox. When the offer came, due diligence was almost boring. We closed for a number I didn’t think was possible eighteen months earlier.

Ava Cooper
Successful Exit
Member

THE SCALE-UP

“Revenue doubled. My hours didn’t.”

I joined because I wanted to grow, not because I wanted to sell. What I didn’t expect was that building ‘as if you might sell’ was the fastest way to scale. The S.C.A.L.E. work forced me to find the actual margin in my SKUs, hire the leadership I’d been avoiding, and stop treating my business like a hobby with a payroll. Revenue is up over 80% this year. My hours are not.

Liam Thompson
Scaling Stage
Active Member

THE MINDSET SHIFT

“I stopped building a job.”

I’m not planning to sell. Maybe ever. But the way I think about my company is completely different now. Every decision goes through one filter: does this make the business more dependent on me, or less? That single question changed how I hire, how I price, how I delegate. Whether or not I ever exit, I’ve already built something worth more than what I had a year ago.