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Why Exit Timing Changes How You Run a Business

16 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Mark Osborne, MBA, CEPA®. This content was uploaded by Mark Osborne, MBA, CEPA®. This is a YouTube video titled "Why Exit Timing Changes How You Run a Business" (created 2026-02-16). The excerpt is a speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) in a business-focused talk or interview describing how exit timing (a liquidation or sale within ~5 years versus running the business for 10+ years) requires very different marketing and sales approaches. The speaker reflects on adapting long-term growth marketing to a near-term exit context and on being forced to sell faster than planned, touching on value-acceleration and common entrepreneurial timing challenges.

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It's been interesting from my side is that, you know, the things that you do when you're marketing a business forever, like, you know, like we're going to grow until the wheels come off, which is the way that most people kind of think about running their business, is you actually do very different things if there's some liquidation transaction event happening within 5 years versus if you're going to run it for more than 10 years. And so, it's been really interesting to adapt all of what I had been doing in marketing and sales specifically to that context. And I think that I heard you say, you know, oftentimes people think about, you know, sort of the value acceleration aspect of selling their business of, well, if I had planned in advance, sure, I would've loved to have done those things, but I didn't plan in advance. I, you know, like about half of all entrepreneurs, I was, you know, sort of brought into a place where I needed to sell faster than I was prepared for.