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How NOT to buy a business

How NOT to Buy a Business

The following is adapted from Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game Perhaps you’re already familiar with the concept of acquisition entrepreneurship. It’s the process of purchasing an existing business, then exercising

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Don't Startup

Read This Before You Start a Business

The following is adapted from Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs are Outsmarting the Startup Game and Unlocking Trillions in Value Read This Before You Start a Business: A Brief Primer on Acquisition Entrepreneurship If

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acquisition entrepreneurship

5 Myths of Entrepreneurship

Usually when I talk with entrepreneurs about acquisition entrepreneurship, I get a lot of blank stares and raised eyebrows.  Why? Because acquisition entrepreneurship doesn’t follow the traditional way of thinking about business ownership.  For one,

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How to Leverage Your Career Capital

In the last decade, computer science professor Cal Newport wrote a book about building career capital and why this is such an important endeavor. Newport’s thesis essentially states that a person will not find a

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