🧐 What I Learned Last Week
🧐 What I Learned Last Week
Week ending Friday June 3rd, 2022
What I Learned Last Week curates the most interesting content relating to business acquisitions, operations, entrepreneurship, finance, and more. WILLW is a publication of The Business Inquirer.
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📰 Articles
Eyal Toledano published his 16th “State of the Fund” post and as always, it’s a great read. For those unfamiliar with Eyal, he is documenting his journey of turning $500k of his personal capital into $1.4M over a 2-year period through acquiring micro-SaaS businesses.
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Jordan Novgrod of Small Business Acquisition published an article highlighting the results of a Quality of Earnings Report that his CPA (hired via DueDilio) produced on his target acquisition.
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Owned and Operated Newsletter has a great post about using acquisitions to grow your business. They mainly discuss this in relation to home service businesses but I think some of the concepts apply to any type of business.
Using Acquisitions To Strengthen Your Business
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David LaMore of Maverick newsletter outlines the courses that are most relevant for aspiring searchers & business acquisition entrepreneurs.
🧵 Twitter
Some strategies for protecting some of your assets from the SBA…
Important insight on properly modeling your acquisition…
How to deal with employee blackmail…😂
Key steps in the first few days of ownership transition…
This thread is too good. Be mindful of these tactics…
As easy as 1, 2, 3, 4…
Preparation is key…
Good thread on finding off-market real estate deals…
🤔 Thoughts, Events, Other
🛠 Tools & Resources
These are tools & resources that I personally use or have used. They may contain affiliate links so I’ll get a few pesos if you sign-up.
Cerebro Capital - Cerebro has a network of 1,500+ lenders who can provide debt financing for your acquisition, refi, etc. $500k minimum.
X5 Deals - Proprietary deal sourcing. They do the outreach and send you relevant, actionable deals directly into your inbox.
Curators - Proprietary deal sourcing. You need targets that fit your investment criteria, and Curators delivers week after week - we even update your personalized database on a daily basis with new information on best-fit targets.
BizNexus - Proprietary deal flow, deal aggregator, and exit prep.
PrivSource - Deal aggregator for lower and middle-market listings.
ProjectionHub - Access to 50+ CPA-developed financial projection templates. 25% discount using code “duedilio” at checkout.
Logology - Best automated logo & brand identity tool I’ve come across.
DeepBench - Access a cutting-edge expert network. $200 discount.
OpenPhone - The best business phone solution that I have found. $20 credit.
Eloquens - Knowledge marketplace. I’ve bought a few guides and templates here.
Deal Flow Scout - Peer-to-peer deal flow exchange. Free, open, transparent.
Deal Sourcing Guide - A directory I put together of online marketplaces, brokers, DFY deal flow, and more.
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