Posted by Roscoe | Oct 21, 2015 | How To Get Deal Flow |
Many of my posts focus on businesses that are for sale – as opposed to not for sale, or never thought about selling. These for sale businesses are usually represented and listed by brokers. In some cases these are main street brokers, in some cases big deal shops and M&A intermediaries and even real estate brokers in states like Florida.
Read MorePosted by Roscoe | Jan 9, 2016 | How To Get Started In Small Business Acquisitions |
In this post I’m going to go over the biggest obstacles to buying a business. Any business, big or small, not just bigger deals in sizable buyouts. Now there are many reasons why buyers and entrepreneurs self destruct as they go through the business buying process. So I am going to cover the most important of those reasons.
Read MorePosted by Roscoe | Oct 12, 2015 | How To Do A Business Valuation |
I love talking about profits. The abbreviations above are all well known calculation methods for profits. Or cash flow depending on what you are looking for. I refer back to Pablo’s theorem of the difference between the two: “net profit is an opinion, cash flow is a fact”. This is to say that net profit is a number generally tainted with accounting principles, and subject to debate, while cash flow either exists or it doesn’t. Semantics. In this case the opinion is just as useful as the fact unless of course any numbers are substantially misrepresented.
Read MorePosted by Roscoe | Sep 30, 2015 | How To Get Started In Small Business Acquisitions |
Buying into a company means an individual invests a significant amount of money into a private company and comes away with a significant, although minority, interest. He will also get whatever payments and perks come with the deal. He may or may not be actively involved in the company.
Read MorePosted by Roscoe | Oct 16, 2015 | How To Get Deal Flow |
I am going to provide my perspective on the world of brokers and their respective websites. Or perhaps the websites and their respective brokers. Both exist in big numbers. I usually start with big search engines such as Bizbuysell, where you can find loads of businesses for sale and the contact info for the brokers that represent them. There is also Bizquest, which does pretty much the same thing and I think is owned by the BBS people. There is also Globalbx and a whole bunch of others which you can easily run a search for.
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