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Home › Growth Notes › MSP Financial Forecast Growth Building a 3-to-5-Year Financial Forecast for Your MSP How to build a multi-year MSP forecast from the drivers that move it, test it with three scenarios, and keep it honest enough that a lender or buyer will believe it. By Rhett Collver October 7, 2026 11 … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › EBITDA Add-Backs for MSPs M&A EBITDA Add-Backs: How to Clean Up Your MSP’s Numbers Before a Sale Which add-backs buyers accept, which ones they throw out, the MSP items that trip sellers up, and how to document the number before a buyer’s accountants test it. By Rhett Collver October 7, … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › How MSP Deals Get Paid M&A Earnouts, Seller Notes, and Rollover Equity: How MSP Deals Actually Get Paid How each piece of an MSP deal works, what the deal terms data says about it, and what a seller should negotiate before signing anything. By Rhett Collver October 7, 2026 12 … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › Buying an MSP: Due Diligence M&A Buying an MSP: The Due Diligence Checklist That Keeps You From Overpaying A buyer’s due diligence checklist for MSP acquisitions, built around the places buyers overpay and what each finding should do to your offer. By Rhett Collver October 7, 2026 12 min read … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › Small Business Capital Advisory Growth Capital Advisory for Small Businesses: When to Raise The best time to raise money is before you need it. Here’s how to tell when that is, which kind of capital fits, and what to fix before a lender or investor looks under the hood. By … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › Proprietary MSP Deal Pipeline M&A How to Build a Proprietary MSP Deal Pipeline Proprietary MSP deal flow comes from owners you reach before a broker ever lists them. This guide covers the acquisition thesis, the target list, the reason an owner should pick you, and the long outreach cycle that … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › MSP Valuation Multiples M&A MSP Valuation Multiples: What MSPs Actually Sell For Most MSPs sell for roughly 4x to 12x adjusted EBITDA. Here’s where your shop likely lands, what pushes the number up or down, and why the multiple on the offer isn’t the check you cash. By Rhett Collver … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › Best MSP Business Brokers M&A The 6 Best MSP Business Brokers and Sell-Side Advisors (2026) Compare 6 MSP business brokers and sell-side advisors for 2026 on deal-size fit, real fee benchmarks, and who’s actually verified. By Rhett Collver September 18, 2026 11 min read On This Page Quick Picks … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › 9 MSP Exit Strategy Mistakes M&A 9 MSP Exit Strategy Mistakes That Kill Your Valuation An MSP exit strategy fails when owners treat the sale like a single event instead of a multi-year process. These nine mistakes consistently destroy valuation multiples. By Rhett Collver August 4, 2026 14 min read … Read more
Home › Growth Notes › 7 Best MSP M&A Advisors for Mid-Market Tech Companies M&A 7 Best MSP M&A Advisors for Mid-Market Tech Companies in 2026 The seven advisors below all specialize in IT services transactions, but they differ in deal size, service model, and how deeply they understand the MSP operating model before a … Read more