INSIGHTFUL TALK BY
DAN
MESSINA
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The Beginning of the End
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everal months ago, I wrote an article about selling your business and how to prepare for retirement. In the past two months, I had three different companies show an interest in buying my company. It’s time for me to prepare for my future, but before we do that, I am going to spend the next few articles telling you the story on how I got there. Let’s get started. Over 25 years ago, I was working on an 18 year career in computers. One day my brotherin-law came to my wife and I saying he just bought a 20
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tow company and he wanted us to run it. We both gave up our careers in computers and started to run a tow company. At the time we knew nothing about towing and I’m not sure I ever had my car towed. To make matters worse, it was not just towing, but it was a private property towing company. I never even heard of private property towing. From our past career, we learned a lot about running a business so we just applied all the rules. We did the following:
