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Buy Then Build

Buy Then Build

by Walker Deibel

★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,191 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Consolidation & Merger

About This Book

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.
Business Entrepreneurship Finance and Accounting
Walker Deibel

Walker Deibel

Walker Deibel is an entrepreneur and investor who has co-founded three startups, acquired seven companies, and consulted on or participated in more than one hundred business transactions. He holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, where he received the Declaration of Accomplishment in Entrepreneurship and later taught acquisition entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor. He is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, which Forbes named one of the top books every entrepreneur must read. He is also the founder of Acquisition Lab, an accelerator for acquisition entrepreneurs.

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