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Selling or Exiting a Profitable Niche Advisory Business

Founders of profitable niche advisory firms struggle to find buyers or determine realistic valuations when they want to move on. The lack of a structured marketplace for small professional services businesses creates exit uncertainty. This is a business process discussion, not a software product gap.

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