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  • How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
  • By: Walker Deibel
  • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
  • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (77 ratings)
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Summary

Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start...until now. What if you could skip the startup phase and generate profitable revenue on day one? In Buy Then Build, acquisition entrepreneur Walker Deibel shows you how to begin with a sustainable, profitable company and grow from there.

You'll learn how to: buy an existing company rather than starting from scratch; use ownership as a path to financial independence; spend a fraction of the time raising capital; find great brokers, generate your own "deal flow", and see new listings early; uncover the best opportunities and biggest risks of any company; navigate the acquisition process; become a successful acquisition entrepreneur; and more.

Buy Then Build is your guide to outsmart the startup game, live the entrepreneurial lifestyle, and reap the financial rewards of ownership now.

©2018 Walker Deibel (P)2019 Tantor

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Buy this book before you Buy a business

This book is extremely informative regarding the process of buying a business, however it is the financial advice that really helps drive the process home i.e. if you don't know finance you definitely should listen to this before you buy!

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Good all round informative book

Speaking as a novice, and not really knowing or understanding an approach to acquisition entrepreneurship, I feel this book gives a good all round view of how the activity may be undertaken. Certainly a book worth listening to again when the time comes

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This is a masterpiece for entrepreneurs. Amazing.

Loved it and liked the way it was structured. The author knows his stuff and speaks from experience.

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Although I'm English, this book is very relevant

Im from the UK and was apprehensive about a US author in a slightly different structure in the US. However the whole book is relevant if you're looking at UK acquisitons

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Amazing

Truly amazing, a practical guide to what you had in mind for the longest period yet needed a hint on the last part of how to do it, this is it !

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Wishing I’d found this years ago

Not all sellers are equal!
This guide might have saved time, money and stress dealing with amateur sellers!
Don’t buy before you read it start to finish.

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Interesting Insight

The book is an eye opener to Acquisition Entrepreneurship and good learning on some key thoughts as you embark on that journey

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Educational and inspiring

I found that this book gives a very clear introduction to the subject, with plenty of examples and practical advice covering the whole cycle from end to end.
I also found it inspiring in terms of the opportunity it showcases. I expect I will read it too again to refresh on the advice.

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truly insightful

finally..... a book filled with useful ideas, suggestions and instructions, clearly and succinctly narrated. I'm thinking I'll buy the paper version also

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