🧐 What I Learned Last Week 6.2.23
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📰 Articles
Building Your Entrepreneurial All-Star Team
Entrepreneurship can be lonely. That’s why it’s important to surround yourself with the right resources. In his latest post, Michael Girdley shares his insights on assembling your all-star team.
Your entrepreneurial All-Star team should cover these three buckets:
People who help your business
CPA / Accountant
Attestation firm
Tax lawyer
Transaction attorney / General counsel
Litigation attorney
People who keep you sane
The “Home Team”
CEO peer group
Business coach
People who help you play the long game
Estate planning attorney
Financial advisor / Insurance agent
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What Is Going On With Asset Prices?
Sieva Kozinsky of The Business Academy talks about the impact of higher interest rates on purchasing power, asset prices, and business buying. At a 7% interest rate, the amount of house you can afford to buy has dropped by 39% compared to a year ago. He believes the same thing will happen to business valuations, eventually.
🧵 Best of Twitter
Tighter debt financing market is creating opportunities for SMB buyers with access to equity…
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On avoiding key-person risk in an acquisition…
MicroAcquire (Acquire) must be getting a lot of inbound leads…
Acquiring a rural ATM business…
Looking for an SBA lender? This is a good place to start…
Input the correct cost of capital into your financial model…
🤔 Thoughts, Events, Other
Due Diligence 101: Key Focus Areas & Costs
Join me and Pipeline Prep on Tuesday, June 6th at 3pm ET as I give a presentation and Q&A on the topic of due diligence.
Roman Beylin is the founder of DueDilio, a leading marketplace for hiring highly vetted M&A due diligence service providers.
Their large and growing network of verified independent professionals and boutique firms specialize in finance, technology, legal, commercial, and other key areas of business diligence.
In the last year alone, DueDilio has helped over 250 business buyers solve their due diligence needs.
In our session, Roman will share some of his observations and answers to the most common questions he receives from business buyers.
RSVP 👉 https://lu.ma/ClosetheDeal
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How to Prepare Your Financials for the Sale Process
Join Armanino advisory experts as they uncover important elements for business owners and entrepreneurs to know before they start looking to sell.
Thursday, June 8th, 3pm ET
Learning Objectives:
Assess the state of your current financial records to begin the cleanup process
Describe the difference between an audit and quality of earning (QOE) report, and which you need
Identify specific financial considerations if looking to sell or be acquired by a private equity (PE) firm
RSVP 👉 https://events.armaninollp.com/prepare-financials-for-sale-process-webinar
⚒️ Tools & Resources
I want to share some tools & resources that I have found helpful. Please note that some of these may contain affiliate links. This means that I may receive compensation if you sign-up and use them.
DueDilio - #1 marketplace to hire highly vetted M&A due diligence service providers. Your source for finance, legal, tech, and other key areas of due diligence. Submit your project, review proposals, and hire.
PrivSource - PrivSource helps you source deals and connect with transaction partners without ever paying a success fee.
BizNexus - Marketplace + off-market origination in one platform. The marketplace averages about 10k active listings & pre-CIM opportunities, and the off-market origination focuses on data & multi-channel. Local Boston company and I consider the founder (Adam Ray) a friend.
X5 Deals - Proprietary deal sourcing. They do the outreach and send you relevant, actionable deals directly into your inbox.
Import Dojo - a newsletter that sends eCommerce and Amazon FBA businesses for sale to your email inbox. They send deals each Wednesday at 9:00 AM CST.
Scott Oldford - If you're interested in gaining insight into the process of building, scaling, acquiring, and selling online businesses, Scott Oldford can help.
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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