Essential Exit Guide: Master Your Business Exit Strategy

Are you planning your business exit strategy? Read our Essential Exit Guide and learn from the UK’s most successful founders.

Planning your business exit strategy starts long before you might think. In our Essential Exit Guide, published in partnership with HSBC Innovation Banking, we offer practical guidance from founders for founders across the UK who are considering or preparing their own business exit strategy.

• Planning – From your cap table structure to your choice of investors, learn how to make smart early decisions that strengthen your long-term business exit strategy.
• Deal Time – Once you’ve decided to explore your exit options, discover how to get your business in order and present your company in the best possible light to investors and acquirers.
• Life After Exit – Learn how to navigate your next chapter, from wealth management to defining the impact you want to make next.

Whether you’re looking to exit your company in the next year or simply keeping your options open, it pays to plan ahead. The founders who achieve the best outcomes are those who understand their exit options and prepare early – and if you’re reading our guide, that’s you.

Our Essential Exit Guide forms part of the UK Exit 50, which highlights the 50 most successful tech startup exits of the past 24 months.

Our Tech Nation alumni have raised over £16.3b and include more than 30% of all UK unicorns – Darktrace, Deliveroo, Farfetch, Shazam, Zoopla, and many more UK tech giants have passed through our programmes on their paths to successful exits.

In fact, 20% of the companies included in our UK Exit 50 have been through a Tech Nation programme. These founders didn’t just build great companies; they created blueprints for the next generation of successful entrepreneurs.

Our guide includes insights from successfully exited founders such as Chris Morton (Lyst), Lord Michael Spencer (ICAP / NEX Group), Nick Jenkins (Moonpig), Poppy Gustafsson (Darktrace), Will Shu (Deliveroo), and more!

Complete the form above to download our Essential Exit Guide.

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