Buy Then Build Alternatives
What Searchers Use Instead
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (Ruback & Yudkoff)
One-TimeThe same on-ramp from the professors who teach the course, at $21.95, with the arithmetic done conservatively rather than hopefully.
Stanford Search Fund Primer
FreeFree and current, and written from what actually happened to hundreds of funds rather than from a thesis about what ought to.
The Messy Marketplace (book)
One-TimeThe seller's half of the same transaction, from a buyer who has reviewed thousands of companies, which is the half a first-timer keeps guessing at.
Built to Sell (John Warrillow)
One-TimeThe transferability lens read backwards: what makes a company able to keep going without the person who built it is the list you are screening for.
The E-Myth Revisited (Michael E. Gerber)
One-TimeFor the part this book spends least time on, which is the dependence on one person that you inherit on the Monday after closing.
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