137 - 🎙 Key Insights on Becoming Exit Ready for Founders - Damian Connolly

19/10/2025 46 min Temporada 6 Episodio 35

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Damian Connolly is the founder and Managing Director of Sakura Business Solutions, an accountancy practice specializing in outsourced finance team services and strategic business advisory. With a rich background spanning private equity, SME advisory, and hands-on experience in business exits, Damian has dedicated his career to helping entrepreneurs build profitable, resilient, and exit-ready companies. His approach uniquely blends deep financial expertise with practical, actionable guidance, shaped by international experience from Ireland to the UK and beyond.💡 What You’ll Learn from Damian's Journey:🔸 Building an Exit-Ready Business: Understand why preparing your business for exit should start years in advance and how it creates valuable options, not just for selling, but for scaling and succession.🔸 The Power of Strong Financial Foundations: Discover why a proactive, embedded accountant is the backbone of every thriving company, and what most SMEs miss by neglecting this critical function.🔸 Leadership Through Delegation & Documentation: Learn how systematizing processes and empowering teams allows founders to work on, not just in, their business, paving the way for growth and eventual exit.🔸 Embracing Version One Over Perfection: Why overcoming the fear of releasing imperfect work and focusing on tangible action accelerates learning, opportunity, and business development.You can connect with Damian on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ to follow his journey.🎥 Big thanks to VidOps for supporting Founders Voyage. Use code voyage at ⁠vidops.io⁠ for 10% off expert audio, video, animation, and photography services.👏 Props to the stellar crew: Nancy Nash, Daniel M. Melo, Carlos Javier Chacón Sánchez, Matthew Ray, and host Spencer Walker-Fooks. You bring this show to life.🥂 Want to support the journey? Join us on ⁠Patreon⁠ and help amplify more voices like Damien.#FoundersVoyage #Entrepreneurship #Podcast

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