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Cash flow management, KPIs, internal controls, and why a profitable business can still tank in due diligence.
Yoav Cohen, certified M&A advisor, managing partner at NYC Advisors, and veteran of over 40 industries as a CFO, COO, and CEO, joins Exit Algorithms to break down exactly what distressed businesses get wrong and what every business owner should be doing years before they sell.
Yoav has spent 25 years stepping into crisis situations for companies referred by their lenders, stabilizing operations, and preparing businesses for high-value exits. His perspective is grounded, blunt, and packed with real examples.
We cover:
– Why most distressed companies share the same three problems: no budget, no KPIs, and no written processes
– The 13-week cash flow model and why it exists to help the owner, not the bank
– How a $70 million company was quietly losing Money on its best customers for years because nobody measured cost by product
– Why profitable businesses still get discounted by buyers when they have no KPIs or internal controls
– The compliance traps that kill deals in due diligence: unregistered states, unpaid sales tax, and lapsed annual filings
– Why you should start preparing for your exit two to three years early and what an advisor like Yoav does during that window
– How BlackRock cut their investment story prep time from four to five weeks down to a few hours using AI
– How a food distributor used ChatGPT to reverse-engineer restaurant menus and create a smarter sales pitch
– Yoav’s practical tip: there is no single ingredient that transforms a business. You need all of it working together.
Connect with Yoav at nycadvisors.com.
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00:00 Intro: Meet Yoav Cohen, managing partner at NYC Advisors
01:08 From Citibank and Bankers Trust to 25 years of turnarounds
02:52 Why broad industry experience helps more than deep specialization
04:17 When does a business need an interim executive vs. a fractional one
06:56 First steps when entering a distressed company
08:30 Why owners don’t listen to their employees and why it costs them
10:00 The 13-week cash flow model and why it is for the owner first
14:24 Preparing to exit with a two to three year runway
16:15 KPIs, audits, and what buyers notice when they’re missing
17:32 Compliance traps that kill deals: unregistered states and unpaid sales tax
19:34 Why internal due diligence two years out changes everything
21:42 How Yoav uses AI and what BlackRock does with it
24:03 Real use case: reverse-engineering restaurant menus with ChatGPT
25:39 Yoav’s tip: no single fix makes a business valuable, it takes everything
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