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Buy Then Build

How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

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Buy Then Build

Written by: Walker Deibel
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
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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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This book is the perfect step by step playbook for purchasing a small or medium size business! If you're like me, you have no desire to start something from scratch but love the thrill and excitement of running a company...here's how to make that a reality without making all the mistakes.

A must read if looking to buy a small business!

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Good book, opens up the concept of buying a business at a very visceral level. Buying a business is not all rainbows and unicorns but it's not a nightmare either. This book really explores the practical aspects of buying a business well.

Pretty decent

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Great book, learned lots! I will be purchasing the hardcopy as well!
Loads of great info!

5 stars!

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The book is a great starting point to the broad topic of acquisition entrepreneurship. The author doesn't spend too much time on any one subject but he raises good points and provides exercises/ recommends further readings. Parts of it, especially the financial/accounting topics are very simplified.

Good initial book into this topic

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So detailed. I’m ready to start. Thanks for this book! Best read of the year!

Can’t wait

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how can I get money or credits back?
the book itself is great. the sound stopped half way through. whereas other books are ok.

Sound stopped half way through... very frustrating

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Full of useful and insightful information around purchasing an already established business rather than starting one from scratch.

Great book for any entrepreneur

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Will be buying a physical copy just to have it. If you are thinking about it, just do it. You won’t regret it.

Amazing book full of information

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At some point early on they lost my faith in the material, I couldn't get past the fact, that the narrator made an error in reading aloud one of the authors formulas by reading 2-3, two to three, as two minus three, and all I could think about was this book is just a product promoting a website, and, that the author didn't bother, or didn't care enough to proof the narrators work. I was left wondering if there were other errors I missed because I was not familiar enough with the material, maybe there was actually good information in the book, but they lost me.

Didn't enjoy it, but finished it anyway.

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