Acquiring Minds
By Will Smith
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Buying a business is an amazing path for many successful entrepreneurs. Learn how to buy a business from the entrepreneurs who have already done it. 2x per week: stories, insights, & valuable advice about acquisition entrepreneurship. Hosted by Will Smith, who is on his own path to acquire a business.
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Rolling-Up to $15m EBITDA
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The Double Life of Owning a Business 2.5 Hours Away
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The Gritty, High-Capex Road to Millions
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Watching Warren: How to Build a Mini-Berkshire
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Getting Unstuck by Buying a Business
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Buy & Build a Trash Business to a $4.4m Exit
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Roofing + Florida = Path to $100m
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Rather Than Retire, Buy a Business
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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$700k EBITDA with No SBA, No Money Down
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Birth of a Roll-Up
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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How to Identify & Buy a Great Residential Contractor
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Reward for a Brutal Transition: $760k EBITDA on 3 Hours/Week
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Buying Small, Growing Big: From $1m to $26m
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Unlocking Growth in a Business, Average Age 55
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Bought Tiny, Grew to $4m
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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When You Buy a Glorified Job, Not a Business
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Front Lines of a Crisis
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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How a First-Timer Did a Turnaround (Including an Exit)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Saying No to Home Services, Yes to B2B Media
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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8 Figs or Bust: Transitioning a Big Plumbing Business
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Fire, Covid, Exit: 5 Years in a $12m Events Business
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Taking a Blue Collar Biz from $900k to $2.4m in Earnings
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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First-Timer Turns $20k into $900k in 19 Months
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Model Works: Reflections of a Plumbing Business Buyer
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Buying a $4m Business (with 80% Recurring Revenue)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Taking the Plunge into Extreme Ownership
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Finding a Good Business After 2+ Years of Searching
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Buying a Business to 20x a Real Estate Empire
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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4 Acquisitions In, Holdco Builder's Goal is £150m
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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14 Months from Searcher to $5.5m EBITDA
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Shutting Down After a 4-Year Struggle
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Buying a Big $7m Trade School
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Moving to a Small Town to Buy an SMB
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Appeal of Buying a Food Product Business
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Building an HVAC Holdco to £60m in Revenue
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Opening Up to Franchises to Buy a Great Business
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Building a $350m Holdco of Farms
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Factory Life: Buying a Manufacturer with $1m SDE
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Scaling Sweaty Services with a Brokerage Model
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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2.5 Years from Buying to Exiting
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Hard but Fun: Transitioning a 77-Year-Old Business
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Power of Conviction in Buying a Business
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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3 Perspectives: A Panel on Buying Small Businesses
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Escaping Golden Handcuffs by Buying a Business
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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7 Takeaways from 200 Episodes
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Cash Flows Over Exits: Buying for the Long Term
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Skip the SBA: Buying a $4m Biz with a Conventional Loan
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Doing It His Way: First-Timer Buys 2 at Once
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The Upside & Downside of Search, from a 20-Year Veteran
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Passion, Meet EBITDA: The Joy of Buying an Art Gallery
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Growing EBITDA from $750k to $2m: Time to Sell?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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How to Buy a SaaS Business with an SBA Loan
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Boom, Bust, Boom: Buying a Whiplash Business
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Partnering with an Operator to Buy a Business
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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How to Survive Going from Hedge Funds to SMB Owner
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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A Reward for Widening Search to $300k SDE
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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When Buying Small Goes Right (3x Growth)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Buying a $3m Candle Manufacturer That Had No Books
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Buying $1m+ Ice Cream Shops to Expand Nationally
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Buy and 3x a Project-Based Business in Just 2 Years
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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How to Buy the Business Where You Work
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The $295m Search Fund Exit
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Hiring a General Manager & Buying Business #2
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Leaving a Big Salary in DC for Small Business in Wyoming
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Seller's View of a Searcher Buying His Business
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Buying a 45-Year-Old Industry Pioneer
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Buy a Franchise Portfolio: How to Choose a Brand
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Rocky Transition: How to Survive, Then Thrive
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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First-Time Buyer Recipe for Success: Action & Small Steps
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Unlocking Growth in a 40-Year-Old Business
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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From Startup Founder to Buying a Small Business
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Buying a Small Business to Build for Decades
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Holdco Entrepreneurs: A Peek Behind the Curtain
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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A Non-Financial Reason to Buy a Business
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Postmortem of a Broken Deal
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Joys & Pain of Owning a $10m City Bus Business
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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How (and Why) to Buy a B2B Services Business
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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16 Months to Exit: Cleaning Up in Street Sweeping
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Why Buy a Digital Service Business
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Building an ATM Empire
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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The Life-Changing Potential of Buying a Business
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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How One Tiny Acquisition Grew Into a Holdco
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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5x in 5 Years: Buying Small to Grow Quickly
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Snowball Effect: Getting to $45m in 3 Years
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Don't Overlook HR Diligence: 3 Items to Check
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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How to Shorten Your Search: Big 3, Little 2
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Secret to $25m Success
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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What Buying Small Is Like When Crises Happen
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Self-Funded Search vs. Independent Sponsorship
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The Bumpy Reality of Buying an Ecommerce Business
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Owner vs CEO: 2 Approaches to Buying a Business
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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One Acquiring Minds Guest Buys Another
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Raising $800k to Buy an $8m Business as a First-Timer
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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It Worked: Buying an Ecom Business to Gain Freedom
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Buy Big: How to Acquire a $3m EBITDA Roofing Business
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May 30, 2023 |
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Home Care Business: How to Buy & 2x an Agency
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May 25, 2023 |
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Overworked & Underpaid: Buying a Business to Escape
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May 22, 2023 |
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Learning to Lead: From Searcher to Boss of 140
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May 18, 2023 |
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Uber Driver to 7-Figure Exit in 3 Years
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May 15, 2023 |
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Surviving the Nightmare: Sales Plunge 95%
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May 11, 2023 |
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How to Raise Money from Investors to Buy a Business
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May 08, 2023 |
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How to Buy a $5m Business & Hire an Operator to Run It
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Opportunity in Carve-Outs (and Uncle Sam)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Fetal Position to Foundry Holdco ($30m & Counting)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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How to 2x Sales in a Service Business You Buy
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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How to Build a Portfolio of 20 Franchise Locations
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Life as an Operator: Leaving PE to Buy a $2m Tree Business
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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From Determined Searcher to $75m Accidental Holdco
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Feast or Famine: How to Grow a Niche Manufacturing Biz
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Navigating Failure: Buying a $5m+ Business that Collapses
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Single Mom, 2 Kids, and a $4m Business
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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6 Months from Twitter Inspiration to $2m Business Owner
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Back to a W-2: When Business Ownership Isn't the Way
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How to Buy and 2x a Subcontractor Business
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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One Year Later: Holdco Grows to $75m in Total Revenue
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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How to Build a Holdco Around Company Culture
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Honeymoon, Darkness, then Light
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Growing a Small 1st Acquisition into a Holdco Platform
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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How to Buy a Neighborhood Institution
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How to Buy & Operate a Plane Ride Away
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Recent Guest Exits for 8 Figures
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Reward for Being Systematic: $2m Dog Training Business
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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How to Roll Up Legacy Franchises (to $36m/yr)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Using $100k to Buy a 7-Figure Dream Business
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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One Year Later: 60% Growth + 2 More Acquisitions
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Key Moments from 3 Entrepreneurs Who Bought Businesses
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Former Searcher Opts to Franchise Instead
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Manufacturing Opportunity: Look Where Others Aren't
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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How to Buy a Salon as an Industry Outsider (and Survive)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Buying Franchises: A Primer for Searchers
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Buying a $3m Course Business (Whose Founder is the Face)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Wine Business: 5x Growth in a Tough but Fun Industry
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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1 Year Later as Buyer of a $1m EBITDA Business
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The Wealth Potential of Self-Funded Search
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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(Part 2) 8-Figure Exit: How to Buy, Transform & Sell in 3.5 Years
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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8-Figure Exit: How to Buy, Transform & Sell in 3.5 Years
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Buying a Therapy Practice & Selling for Millions
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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A Cautionary Tale of Buying Too Small
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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State of the Pod, 2022
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Dream Fulfilled: Buying a $2m, 50-Year-Old Business
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Buying a Bitcoin Mining Facility
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Birth of a Holdco (with 15 Acquisitions to Date)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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6 Months to Buy a Business with $1m+ in EBITDA
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Buying a Business to Escape the Middle Class
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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How to Buy a $2.3m Business with $100k in Cash + Your 401k
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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How to Survive Buying a Bad Business
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Buying Doggy Daycares After 10 Years in Tech
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Would They Do It Again? 1 Year Later with 5 Early Guests
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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How to Buy a Seasonal Biz: Buy Another for Low Season
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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How a $40k Acquisition Led to a Franchise Empire
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Selling a Business for 5x a Year After Buying It
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Ups and Downs of Buying Small (and Keeping a Job)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Reflections After 1 Year of Searching Full Time
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Not Just a Young Man's Game: Acquiring at 60
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Opening Up to Franchises to Buy a Great Business
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The Appeal of Lead Gen Businesses (Especially Old Ones)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Building an HVAC Holdco to £60m in Revenue
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Rolling Up Real Estate Appraisal Firms
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Growing an Ecommerce Acquisition 13x in 4 Months
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Flower Power: Buying a Rose Distributor Primed for Growth
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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A Brutal Search Rewarded with Success After 3+ Years
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Buy a SaaS Business in 2022: How to Compete in a Hot Market
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Leaving Apple to Buy a Real Estate Business with 150+ Agents
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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7 Findings from the New Data on Self-Funded Searches
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Why Chenmark Bought a Boat Tour Business
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Weird & Wonderful World of Vending
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Don't Be Tempted: 8 Signs of a Bad Business
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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How to Acquire & Grow an FBA Business
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Good News for Ecommerce Buyers
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Search Success in a Small City: $500k SDE, 95% Recurring
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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How to Get Good Deals from Brokers
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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What Searchers Can Learn from Big PE
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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How to Buy a Big Business with a Buy-Side Advisor
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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7 Common Mistakes Across 250 Searchers
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May 23, 2022 |
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Acquiring a Business in Florida, Living in California
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May 16, 2022 |
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Why Buy a Small Manufacturing Business
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May 09, 2022 |
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Buying Digital Businesses in 2022
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May 02, 2022 |
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Lessons from a Founder Who Then Started Acquiring
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Self-Funded Search vs. Traditional Search Funds
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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8 Figure Exit, 2 Years After Buying the Business
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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2 Common Risks in Search & How to Mitigate Them
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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How to Buy a $4m HVAC Business (at Age 24)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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What to Love About HVAC Acquisitions
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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How & When to Make Changes at Your Acquisition
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Shut Out by Industry Brokers, an Entrepreneur Finds a Way
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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How to Buy a Business Using Tactics from B2B Tech Sales
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Transatlantic Search for a $1m+ EBITDA Business
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Buying a 20-Year-Old Online Business
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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6 Months in the Truck: Buying an Ice Delivery Biz
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Nailing the Trifecta: B2B + Remote + Scalable
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Overcoming a Career Rut by Buying a Business
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Building a Blue Collar Empire
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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7 Years Later: Leaving Wall Street to Buy Small Businesses
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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How to Build a Holdco (4 Acquisitions So Far)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Buying a Business & Having a Blast
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Buying a Manufacturer with 1 Good Employee & 2000 SKUs
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Key to a Profitable Liquor Store
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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It's All Your Fault: How to Become CEO of Your Acquisition
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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A Cautionary Tale of Buying Too Small
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Choosing Laundromats over Real Estate
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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5 Takeaways from Harvard's ETA Conference
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Lessons from 14 Years in Search
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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What to Acquire: 3 Hot Sectors for Business Buyers
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Buying the Family Business & Growing 4x During COVID
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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How to Hire an Attorney for Your Acquisition
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Buying a Therapy Practice & Selling for Millions
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The Argument for Self-Funded Search
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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How to Buy a Salon as an Industry Outsider (and Survive)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Starter Acquisition: Buying a $25k Business
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Stay Open to the Many Flavors of Search
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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From Search Misery to Successful CEO
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Buying a 45 Year Old Software Business
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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How to Buy Landscaping Businesses
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Anatomy of a Search: 40 Interns, 25 Months, 20 Offers
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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How to Choose Your Lender When Buying a Business
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The Poetry of Buying a Blue Collar Business
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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What You Don’t Understand About Buying a Small Business
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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6 Ways Buying a Business Has Changed Since 2016
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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How to Buy a Medical Billing Business
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Investing Like an 1880s Businessman
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Using Investors to Buy a Business with SBA
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Growing a Flippa Business to $2 Million
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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How to Build a Portfolio of Micro SaaS Businesses
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Making a Career of Buying Businesses
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Buying a $1m Coffee Biz After Years of Starting from Scratch
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Top 3 Pitfalls When Buying an Online Business
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Why Plumbing Companies Make Awesome Acquisitions
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Buying an Online Side Hustle (for Less than $5k)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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How to Survive Acquiring a $3.5m Flooring Business
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Acquiring an $8m Distressed E-Commerce Biz
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Buying a $1.2m Fencing Business & Earning Trust Quickly
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Making $100k/mo by Buying Websites
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Buy an E-Commerce Business: Tips from an Aggregator
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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€5m a Year by Acquiring Translation Agencies
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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How to Build an E-Commerce Acquisition Company
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Acquiring a $280k SaaS on MicroAcquire
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Buy a Septic Business & Make $3m ARR
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Pivoting to Swag in 7 Acquisitions Over 8 Years
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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5 Lessons from Acquiring a $2m Portfolio of Websites
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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How to Buy a Ski Resort (at Age 22)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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How to Buy a Landscaping Business & Boost Profits Quickly
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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How One Small Acquisition Led to 9 More in 5 Years
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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How to Acquire Your First Business in 3 Months
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May 27, 2021 |
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How to Buy a $800k Clinical Trials Firm & Grow It to $3m
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May 20, 2021 |
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Buying a Manufacturer for Just the Value of Assets
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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How to Buy a $2m Dying Business Then Sell It for 5X
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Doubling Revenue 6 Months after Acquisition
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Apr 01, 2021 |