DOESCHER GROUP

Leveling the playing field for self-made business owners.
Helping you navigate the unfamiliar financial terrain
of a strange new land.

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YOU DID IT

You made the entrepreneurial leap. You’ve reached the mountain top and built a business you can feel proud of. Or perhaps you’re still building?

Our job is to help you get where you want to go next, allowing you to head confidently into your next adventure.

I’m Craig

I have spent my career working alongside business owners like you at their most crucial moments, often once-in-a-lifetime opportunities when everything is on the line. We’ve helped business owners get a better understanding of their performance in order to drive operating performance, raised capital to ignite the next phase of business evolution, transitioned owner-operators into new roles, helped self-made business owners say goodbye to the amazing businesses they’ve built, on their own terms, and much more.

My team and I help business owners like you answer these pivotal questions:

What is my business worth today and why?
If I were to put my business up for sale, could I actually get a deal done?
What strategies will be most productive to employ to grow or evolve my business in an exciting new way?

By answering these questions with real numbers and data, we can make a plan to move forward in a meaningful way, allowing you to cement your legacy and head confidently into your next adventure.

You’ve taken the leap, and our job is to get you where you want to go next, on your terms, on your timeline.

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Evolve or Exit?

What are your hopes, plans, dreams and even fears for your business? If you’re like many of the business owners we work with, you haven’t had the time to sit and reflect on what you really want out of your business in a while.

You just know something needs to shift.

This is how an owner who might be best served by a key hire or debt refinancing instead looks to prematurely exit, while another owner who dreams of exiting and taking on new adventures ends up further complicating his life by committing to a new time-consuming initiative.

These scenarios are all too common, unfortunate, and entirely avoidable. We’re here to help.

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How We Serve Business Owners

Exit Audit

Preparing to exit is just good business whether you’re a start up, a long term business owner or a technician who found yourself a business owner against your own good judgment.
Wherever you are in your journey, get started with an Exit Audit.

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Evolve

If you are looking to run a better business—whether to survive, grow, thrive, or eventually exit—consider the Evolve path. We assist with growth financing, process and systems implementation, reporting and analysis, and other initiatives to make your business more valuable, enjoyable to own, and ready for future transfer.

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Exit

When you’re ready to exit, we walk alongside you as Chief Transaction Officer, allowing you to continue to focus on operational performance, while we help shoulder the lion’s share of the transaction work, empowering you to confidently navigate either an internal or external exit with ease.

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Getting Started

Every business and its owners have a unique story to tell. During discovery, we make it our goal to understand you and your business, spending as long as it takes to understand your unique terrain, the obstacles you’ve overcome, as well as your hopes and dreams for the future of your company you have sacrificed so much to build.
Depending on the scenario, we will also review some initial business data to further deepen our knowledge of the business.
We never want to jump to a prescribed solution for you and your business until we feel we understand your goals and objectives deeply.
Upon completion of the initial discovery period, whether you are looking to evolve or exit, Doescher Group will prepare a tailored proposal detailing the work we would perform if engaged by you.
While no client situation is exactly alike, many of our client relationships fall into one of two categories:
1. a time-sensitive need (e.g. in need of growth capital to fund a new project or acquisition, or need to sell the business to avoid burnout) or
2. a strategic desire to drive value (e.g. planning for a future exit over the horizon, or wanting to explore an internal sale of the company to family or employees).
In any case, our proposal will detail the steps we intend to take on your behalf.
We don’t take the privilege to walk through these important matters with you lightly.
Upon engagement, we will provide you with a relevant request for information and schedule our kickoff call. We strive to make the process as simple as possible, only involving you for questions we cannot work out ourselves.
We will meet with you regularly to collect relevant information, review our work, report out on our progress and insights, and whatever else is required for the project.
We try to strike the magical balance where you understand enough to see the efforts we undertake on behalf of our clients, while also not overwhelming you with things we can handle ourselves without your involvement.