https://www.17-reasons.com/home daily 1.0 2020-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/1582833638782-RT34LLYHT0SPV5KMVDW4/cover.png Home Is Your Company Investment Grade? If you are an owner, investor or employee, you should know the answer before you sink time, energy or cash into an organization. In 17 Reasons Your Company Is Not Investment Grade & What To Do About It, investment banker and serial entrepreneur Zane Tarence reveals how professional investors determine investment-worthiness and enterprise value. Can your company: Generate predictable cash flow? Deliver tangible value to all of its stakeholders? Attract top talent? Support add-on acquisitions? Give you more freedom? https://www.17-reasons.com/meet-zane daily 0.75 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/1584113540061-D0P3KGCXSFXQ4PQ66U9K/zane.png Meet Zane - Meet Zane Author Zane Tarence compiled his list of 17 Reasons a company is considered investment grade from three sources: His experience as a company founder, owner and investor and seller. His observations taken from over 80 institutional transactions that he’s led over the past 20 years. His relationships with talented owners, investors, dealmakers and mentors. https://www.17-reasons.com/assessment daily 0.75 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/fb2f113a-49b9-4a89-bc34-67cdaf490bca/start_assessment.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ - Mak it stand out ds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/fb2f113a-49b9-4a89-bc34-67cdaf490bca/start_assessment.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ - Mak it stand out ds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/e30380e9-0a99-4992-820e-c88f11030750/overview.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/fb2f113a-49b9-4a89-bc34-67cdaf490bca/start_assessment.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ - Mak it stand out ds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/795c3da7-088d-429b-8d34-bb47dffb951f/financial.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/aabf4218-00d2-415a-ae34-1968e0d4e71a/market.png 17 Reasons Assessment™ https://www.17-reasons.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2023-04-06 https://www.17-reasons.com/audio-book-figures daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/1583767871070-TFAR6FR5ZGEDQCNXW27H/cover.png Audio Book Figures - 17 Reasons Your Company Is Not Investment Grade & What To Do About It Download the Supplemental Figures for the audio book https://www.17-reasons.com/book-overview daily 0.75 2021-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e56d7d0f3dea50925efd320/1583767871070-TFAR6FR5ZGEDQCNXW27H/cover.png Book Overview - 17 Reasons Your Company Is Not Investment Grade & What To Do About It Investment grade isn’t just a term that rating agencies assign to corporate or municipal bonds. It is a description of companies that: Generate healthy cash flow. Attract top talent, loyal customers and willing lenders. Are run by owners who know that they drive enterprise value every day. Author Zane Tarence guides readers through a systematic examination of the critical business factors that help owners determine whether their companies have what it takes to attract an investor, transfer to a family member or employees, or sell to a third party. Using examples from his 20+ years in investment banking, Zane illustrates what can happen when owners focus on—or ignore—the 17 Reasons. At the end of every chapter, Tarence provides a list of specific recommendations that owners and their management teams can implement immediately.