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Buy Then Build
- How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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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.
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- bux
- 12-04-2022
If you need this its the right book
A great book if you want to own a business. The process of buying a business is clearly defined making the steps seem achievable. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to start a business.
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- Serenity Software
- 07-03-2020
Don’t Pass on Reading This Book
I never review anything. I listen to or read a new book every couple day’s as knowledge is the fuel for the future but only useful when put into action. This book is - by an order of magnitude - one of the most valuable books I’ve consumed. There’s is more information in this book that can be used as actionable insights than the past hundred or so I’ve read. If your an empire builder as I am - here’s the path growth you’ve been searching for!
9 people found this helpful
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- ParkerJPaulin
- 03-09-2020
Fantastic! Frameworks, Reference, Overviews, Insight.
Walker has created a fantastic reference book that does an amazing job of presenting a reader with a high level overview of this industry and then equips the reader with necessary frameworks, perspective, and tips to be able to adeptly navigate the entire process of acquiring businesses. Having already navigated a top MBA program and the CFA curriculum I still found an amazing degree of value in this book. For those looking to begin their entrepreneurial journey, refine their best practices, or sell their current company, I highly recommend adding this book to the top of your reading list.
Personally, I crushed the audible over the course of a few early AM walks set to 2.5x speed, ordered a couple paperback copies (one for my own desk reference / checklist and a second to hand off in time to someone as I need to get them up to speed on an element in the book), sent audible links to a couple of potential future investors (to help give them perspective on what working together in the future might entail), and sent an audible link to a business owner friend who has not yet gone through the process of prepping his business for sale.
5 people found this helpful
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- David
- 25-10-2021
Great Book
Very insightful book worth a positive motivational tone. In my opinion, this book is even better than the HBR guide to buying a small business.
4 people found this helpful
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- chris
- 11-06-2020
Fantastic book
I am looking to purchase a large asset business this year 2020 and with this insight I feel like
My Journey is possible.
Highly recommend and the narrator is extremely well spoken.
Thanks,
Chris@myyachtsales.com
4 people found this helpful
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- Sam
- 30-08-2021
Great guide
I’ve been using this book as a guide as I work towards the purchase of my first business. Its insights and information has been invaluable as a guide to schedule my goals. I’ve read the book several times since my purchase s couple months ago. I would highly recommend the book to anyone trying to acquire a business.
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- Kyle
- 25-08-2021
Absolutely amazing! A must read!
This book as great for any level of entrepreneur. Digs straight into the foundations of great business building.
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- J
- 13-07-2021
very detailed
lots of information, very detailed, at least no stone I'm turned. I would recommend it
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- Joshua G.
- 23-06-2021
highly recommend
loved this book, full of great insight. time to go out and buy a business!!
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- Josh
- 14-06-2021
It’s worth the read
I am extremely picky and thorough with every book I listen to because i hate wasting time on sub-par books.
Loved this. Great insight into valuation and positioning a company for a sale.
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- Gregory A Ritchie
- 29-03-2021
Insightful
Solid and motivating. I plan to utilize what I learned from this book in the next 6-9 months.
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- Matt M
- 04-08-2021
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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- Rose
- 05-04-2021
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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- SteveN
- 03-02-2021
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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- Ahmed
- 18-01-2021
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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- aqil
- 09-10-2020
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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