Author: Roscoe

The “Mini LBO” and the Five Things It Helps You Do

The “Mini LBO” or small leveraged buyout, can be done at any level with any company even though it is used so thoroughly by large investors and private equity firms. It is essentially a suite of financial techniques which enable the potential buyer of a company to leverage a small amount of money and combine it with conventional financing and seller financing to acquire a substantial company.

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Buying Online Businesses Vs Buying Offline Businesses

This blog deals mostly with buying offline businesses, or as they call them nowadays, bricks and mortar businesses. Buying an offline business is the traditional approach with its own strategies and metrics. I teach a segment of that in the bigger markets(LBOs) but also we tackle smaller traditional deals as well. Yet I simply cannot exist in this business world without running into plenty of online businesses to buy. It is a fact of life. So I will now provide an in depth comparison between buying an online business versus buying an offline business.

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Non-Recourse v Recourse Financing

Typically a non-recourse loan is one in which the lender looks to the company to pay the loan and cannot go back to collect from the principal. Recourse financing is one in which they can go back and collect from the principal(s). Thus the lenders may have “recourse” to go against whoever guaranteed the loan which is generally one or more of the principals of the company. This concept of recourse is what we call a “personal guarantee”.

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Reasons Not To Buy a High Tech Company

A subscriber asked me the other day why I did not recommend buying a software company. In fact, I do recommend buying a software company… if it is cheap. However for first, or even fifth time buyers I think it is a good idea to stay away from high tech companies in general for a number of reasons.

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