• How you can acquire a seven figure business for under $100,000 (and how the US government wants to help you do it)
• How to tap into the $10 trillion in business value that needs to change hands
• Learn how to eliminate 95% of the risk of starting a business, while keeping all the upside

• In this Module, you’ll clarify your business vision and set inspiring growth goals, so you can start taking the first steps in AE, beginning with the important pre-planning for acquisition, including…
• Using the Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment Survey to identify your entrepreneurship style
• Personal Goals Worksheet, to match your personal goals with your business goals
• Strengths and Weaknesses Inventory – so you can leverage your unique strengths and personality to build a world-class business.
• What type of business will help you perform at your highest level? Do you want to focus on optimizing opportunities for turnaround time, an eternally profitable business, or the highest growth? This module will help you pick the perfect approach for you.
• How to set up a pipeline of whatever opportunities that you want, so you are never in short supply of amazing new potential projects.

• Learn which companies are a good fit for acquisition entrepreneurship and which ones aren’t.
• How to profile your perfect company
• Calculating the size of a business that you can afford
• Create your target statement, which you will use as a little cheat-sheet to help you screen for the best opportunities, based on exactly what you want
• Also includes – Industry reaction worksheet

• The search for opportunities – how do you actually go about finding AQ opportunities?
• How do you know if they are legit? Where are the best places to look?
• Once you find them, how to do you start screening them down?
• In this module we break down the exact steps for searching and ultimately building out a pipeline of opportunities, so that you have sustainable “deal flow”

• In this module we explore the key factors to consider in the process of acquiring a business and how to make sure you get the best value
• How do you go from 100 great opportunities to the 2-3 BEST ones?
• The exact steps to assessing the health of a business
• Asset-based valuation vs. cashflow-based valuation
• SDE analysis
• The Unicorn Tool Box
• We also start exploring how you can finance your acquisition, including funding sources, common sticking points, and even how to “pitch” to banks

• What’s the experience of selling a company like from the seller’s perspective?
• Why almost all buyers approach sellers in the exact wrong way, and how to use that to your advantage to get ahead of the competition
• The 6 questions to ask yourself after you first meet with a seller to determine if it’s the right deal
• In this module, you get the inside scoop so that you can understand exactly what’s on the seller’s mind, how to approach the seller of a company to ensure the deal works in your favor, and even how the process works so that when YOU sell your company, you’re an old pro by then!

• The Acquisition phase, from start to finish, including an overview and examples of these assets: The letter of intent, Diligence checklist, and Asset purchase agreement
• Acquisition contingencies
• The 6 steps of emotional negotiations
• The 5 minute stress test before making an offer
• The non-owner advantage
• A breakdown of the incentives and communication channels of all parties involves – buyer, seller, broker, banker, accountant, and lawyer
• The 3 types of due diligence to make to create triple the certainty
• This modules thoroughly review the crucial components to buying a business and how to make sure everything goes smoothly, all the way through the final close.

• Once you’ve acquired the business – now what? Learn the important first steps of growing your new business and maximizing your return on investment, whether that’s through income from the business, or from flipping the business
• The 7 step closing process
• Acquisition as an exit strategy
• This module goes step by step through the process of going from “bought the company” to either “stable cashflow / lifestyle biz” or “built value then sold it”
• And once your first acquisition is successful…how can you leverage that into acquiring 10 more….?
• Also includes a breakdown of the first 90 days of your new acquisition, and the 3 growth models.