January 2016 - The Small Business Buyer

The 6 Biggest Obstacles To Buying a Business – and How To Beat Them

Posted 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.

The Family Business Seller’s Dilemma

Posted by Roscoe | Jan 12, 2016 | How To Get Started In Small Business Acquisitions |

When I meet Sellers for the first time it is a fascinating experience. In many cases they remind me of someone I know very closely. The person could be my very father. I have sudden charges of empathy and a emotion.

Deal Criteria – The Optimum Range of EBITDA

Posted by Roscoe | Jan 11, 2016 | The Business Buyout Model |

So I think I will do a few posts on deal criteria because people always ask me about it. In this post I will talk about the range of earnings that a company should have for it to be on my radar. I should point out that I always change this criteria depending on the day of the week, my mood, the stock market, and if I’m having a bad day. However I always come back to the same range. There are times when I go sky high end times when I feel like buying this a store down the street. But we’ll have to come back to reality at some point.

The Anatomy of An Old Leveraged Buyout Deal – A Case Study

Posted by Roscoe | Jan 5, 2016 | Buyout Case Studies |

Here is a short video description of what went down in 1988 when a huge deal was bought using a leveraged buyout. This was in the era of junk bonds, Drexel and Mike and they don’t exist much anymore but their spirit lives on. Why would I bother with an old mega-deal decades old? To show that the deals that are done today use the same principals as they did back then. And to prove that even a huge leveraged buyout is similar in structure to a small LBO.