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Achieving Success
in the Small Business
Chapter 20
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Learning Objectives
LO1 Recognize the stages of the small business life cycle.
LO2 Consider the impact of the product life cycle.LO3 Understand the options for harvesting or
closing the small business.LO4 Know the firm-level critical success factors for
small business.LO5 Understand what success means with the
quadruple bottom line.
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Small Business Life Cycle
Business life cycle The sequence or pattern of developmental stages
any business goes through during its life span.
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The Small Firm Life Cycle
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Figure 20.1
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Life Cycle Stages
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Emergence
Existence
SurvivalSuccess
Resource Maturity
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Small Business Life Cycle
Liability of newness The set of risks faced by firms early in their life
cycles that comes from a lack of knowledge by the owners about the business they are in and by customers about the new business.
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Small Business Life Cycle
Slack resources Profits that are
available to be used to satisfy the preferences of the owner in how the business is run.
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Avoiding Customer Complacency
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Recency Frequency
Potency Recommendation
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The Product Life Cycle
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Figure 20.2
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Service Life Cycle
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Figure 20.3
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The Hierarchy ofBusiness Outcomes
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Figure 20.3
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Closing the Small Business
Harvest Recover value through a sale of a firm or its
assets.Initial public offering (IPO)
Transfer method describing the first-time public sale of a stock listed on a public stock exchange.
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Closing the Small Business
Consolidation A transfer method in which a small business is
bought by a larger firm for the purpose of quickly growing the larger firm.
Employee stock ownership plan A formalized legal method to transfer some or all
of the ownership of a business to its employees.
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Closing the Small Business
Transfer An endgame
strategy in which ownership is moved from one person or group to another.
Termination An endgame
strategy in which the owner closes down a business
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Closing the Small Business
Liquidity enhancement An estate planning strategy which focuses on
generating cash to cover likely estate taxes.Tax management
An estate planning strategy which focuses on minimizing estate tax payments.
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Closing the Small Business
Estate freeze An estate planning strategy which focuses on
transferring assets to heirs when the asset costs are low.
Walkaways Business terminations in which the entrepreneur
ends the business with its obligations met.
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Closing the Small Business
Bankruptcy An extreme form of business termination which
uses a legal method for closing a business and paying off creditors when debts are substantially greater than assets.
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Closing the Small Business
Workout A form of business termination in which the
firm’s legal or financial obligations are not fully met at closing.
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Closing the Small Business
Reorganization The popular name for a Chapter 13 bankruptcy in
which a bankrupt firm continues to operate while paying off debts identified by the bankruptcy trustee
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Closing the Small Business
Liquidation The popular name for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in
which a bankrupt firm’s assets are sold by the bankruptcy trustee and the proceeds used to pay the firm’s debts.
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Closing the Small Business
Serial entrepreneurs People who open
multiple businesses throughout their career.
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The Not-So-Secret Secrets of Success
Critical Success Factors fall into two broad types:Outside helpEntrepreneurial experience.
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Critical Success Factors
Being incorporatedEmployeesExtreme start-up capitalProtectable intellectual propertyBrand name affiliations or partnersOptimal strategiesPresales
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The Four Bottom Lines
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Table 20.1