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Kristopher B. Jones

@krisjonescom

M&A Advisor, Author, Entrepreneur - Sold Pepperjam to eBay; Raised tens of millions in VC; Help founders secure their legacy at https://xitter.gq/t.co/b27fzH8Kra

 Wilkes Barre, PA
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Check out my latest article: Why Buyers Love Platform Businesses linkedin.com/pulse/why-buyer… via @LinkedIn
Why Buyers Love Platform Businesses

Why Buyers Love Platform Businesses

By Kristopher Jones, Founder and Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io There is a point in the evolution of a company when buyers stop looking at it as a collection of revenue streams and start seeing...

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Check out my latest article: Building a Category Leader linkedin.com/pulse/building-… via @LinkedIn
Building a Category Leader

Building a Category Leader

By Kristopher Jones, Founder and Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io There is a big difference between building a successful company and building the company everyone in your market knows.

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Check out my latest article: Cash Flow vs. Profit: Which Matters More? linkedin.com/pulse/cash-flow… via @LinkedIn
Cash Flow vs. Profit: Which Matters More?

Cash Flow vs. Profit: Which Matters More?

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Entrepreneurs love profit because profit feels like the scoreboard.

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Check out my latest article: How Acquisitions Accelerate Enterprise Value linkedin.com/pulse/how-acqui… via @LinkedIn
How Acquisitions Accelerate Enterprise Value

How Acquisitions Accelerate Enterprise Value

By Kristopher Jones, Founder and Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io There comes a point in the life of many successful companies when organic growth starts to feel painfully incremental.

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Check out my latest article: Expanding Before Selling: Smart or Risky? linkedin.com/pulse/expanding… via @LinkedIn
Expanding Before Selling: Smart or Risky?

Expanding Before Selling: Smart or Risky?

One of the hardest strategic decisions a founder can make before an exit is whether to keep expanding aggressively or begin protecting the business they already have. The instinct to keep growing is...

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Check out my latest article: EBITDA Isn't the Whole Story linkedin.com/pulse/ebitda-is… via @LinkedIn
EBITDA Isn't the Whole Story

EBITDA Isn't the Whole Story

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io If you spend enough time around M&A, you will eventually hear someone reduce an entire company to a remarkably simple equation: EBITDA times a multiple...

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Check out my latest article: Building an Anti-Fragile Business linkedin.com/pulse/building-… via @LinkedIn
Building an Anti-Fragile Business

Building an Anti-Fragile Business

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Most entrepreneurs understand resilience.

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Check out my latest article: Why Market Leadership Matters More Than Market Size linkedin.com/pulse/why-marke… via @LinkedIn
Why Market Leadership Matters More Than Market Size

Why Market Leadership Matters More Than Market Size

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Entrepreneurs love talking about market size.

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Check out my latest article: Scaling Without Losing Culture linkedin.com/pulse/scaling-w… via @LinkedIn
Scaling Without Losing Culture

Scaling Without Losing Culture

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io There is a moment in almost every growing company when the founder realizes something uncomfortable: the culture that once seemed effortless is no...

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Check out my latest article: Organic Growth vs Acquisition Growth linkedin.com/pulse/organic-g… via @LinkedIn
Organic Growth vs Acquisition Growth

Organic Growth vs Acquisition Growth

There are really only a handful of ways to make a company significantly larger. You can sell more to the customers you already have.

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Check out my latest article: Financial Metrics Buyers Actually Care About linkedin.com/pulse/financial… via @LinkedIn
Financial Metrics Buyers Actually Care About

Financial Metrics Buyers Actually Care About

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Founders can track hundreds of metrics.

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Check out my latest article: Scaling Without Increasing Founder Dependency linkedin.com/pulse/scaling-w… via @LinkedIn
Scaling Without Increasing Founder Dependency

Scaling Without Increasing Founder Dependency

By Kristopher Jones, Managing Director and Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io There is a version of growth that looks fantastic on paper and quietly makes the company less valuable.

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Check out my latest article: When Roll-Up Strategies Create Massive Value linkedin.com/pulse/when-roll… via @LinkedIn
When Roll-Up Strategies Create Massive Value

When Roll-Up Strategies Create Massive Value

By Kristopher Jones, Owner, LegacyAdvisors.io There is a reason private equity firms have spent decades pursuing roll-up strategies.

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Check out my latest article: Why Optionality Is the Ultimate Asset linkedin.com/pulse/why-optio… via @LinkedIn
Why Optionality Is the Ultimate Asset

Why Optionality Is the Ultimate Asset

By Kristopher Jones, Managing Director and Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io One of the most valuable things you can build as an entrepreneur will never appear on your balance sheet.

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Check out my latest article: The Hidden Value of Organizational Simplicity linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-va… via @LinkedIn
The Hidden Value of Organizational Simplicity

The Hidden Value of Organizational Simplicity

By Kristopher Jones, Founder / Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io Founders are naturally drawn toward expansion.

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Check out my latest article: The Relationship Between Risk and Valuation linkedin.com/pulse/relations… via @LinkedIn
The Relationship Between Risk and Valuation

The Relationship Between Risk and Valuation

By Kristopher Jones, Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io Founders tend to think about valuation in terms of what a company has accomplished.

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Check out my latest article: The Premium Buyers Pay for Operational Discipline linkedin.com/pulse/premium-b… via @LinkedIn
The Premium Buyers Pay for Operational Discipline

The Premium Buyers Pay for Operational Discipline

By Kristopher Jones, Managing Director, LegacyAdvisors.io Founders often assume buyers pay premiums for exciting things: rapid growth, a great brand, proprietary technology, a hot market, or a...

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this blog post shows you exactly how an LLM chooses who to cite, and how you can make sure it's you.
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We did a deep dive into how perplexity's algorithm works (they told us!) and provide a checklist for how to rank in LLMs. serprecon.com/blog/how-to-ra…
How to Rank in Perplexity: What Photon Reveals | SERPrecon

How to Rank in Perplexity: What Photon Reveals | SERPrecon

Perplexity's Photon post shows how its retrieval engine picks the pages it cites. Here's what it means for ranking in Perplexity, and how SERPrecon already measures it.

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Check out my latest article: What Actually Creates Enterprise Value linkedin.com/pulse/what-actu… via @LinkedIn
What Actually Creates Enterprise Value

What Actually Creates Enterprise Value

By Kristopher Jones, Managing Director and Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Founders talk about enterprise value all the time, but I think we sometimes make the concept more mysterious than it needs to be.

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Check out my latest article: Why Revenue Growth Isn’t Enough linkedin.com/pulse/why-reven… via @LinkedIn
Why Revenue Growth Isn’t Enough

Why Revenue Growth Isn’t Enough

By Kristopher Jones, Founder, LegacyAdvisors.io Entrepreneurs are trained to celebrate revenue.

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