YBAWS! Growing Corporate Value and Marketability

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The Lauda Line: Case Study
How a Calculating Owner Refused to Race Above the Risk
15 hrs ago • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Mathematics of Risk Destruction
Why Small Premiums Vaporize Millions
Jul 16 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Canada Builds Startups, America Buys Them
Canada is brilliant at starting companies and terrible at keeping them. In 2026 domestic growth capital collapsed to a single deal, and BDC now calls…
Jul 15 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Your Next Investor Is Going Extinct
The emerging managers who write the first checks into non-AI startups are being defunded. In 2026, 91 percent of new LP money went to brand-name firms…
Jul 14 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Risk is a Four Letter Word: Assessment
WTF: What The Fuss is all about?
Jul 11 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
The Stewart Method
How One Owner Priced His Own Risk Before Buyers Could
Jul 10 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Risk Is the Four Letter
Your required rate of return, not your revenue, decides your multiple, learn the three risk ingredients that quietly cook every business valuation.
Jul 9 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
What Happens When AI Copies You?
In 2026, every non-AI founder faces a brutal new diligence question: what happens when AI does what you do? AI-native startups command up to a 41…
Jul 8 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
When the Team Walks, Equity Dies
Traditional equity offers zero protection when your people walk out the door. In 2026, reverse acquihires prove it, whole companies gutted, investors…
Jul 7 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Armstrong Aerostructures: Assessment
Frenzy: 52 Weeks to Premium
Jul 4 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
The Armstrong Aerostructures Frenzy: Case Study
52 Weeks to a Premium
Jul 3 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
The Bidding War Blueprint: Create a Feeding Frenzy
A 52 week, phase by phase plan to orchestrate competing buyers, manufacture urgency, and sell solutions instead of assets for a premium exit.
Jul 2 • Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
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