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The Business Inquirer vs EBIT Community

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AttributeThe Business InquirerEBIT Community
What It IsRoman Beylin's weekly Substack curating small-business M&A: article summaries, notable community discussions, upcoming events, and tool roundups, including a regularly updated deal-sourcing guide the space cites.A free newsletter and content hub for acquisition entrepreneurs: weekly deal-flow digests of searcher-sized listings, guides on self-funded search and SBA structures updated with current-year rates and FOIA lending data, plus a paid EBIT Pro membership tier.
CategoryNewslettersNewsletters
Pricing ModelFreeFreemium
What It CostsFree edition weekly; no paid tier was posted when we checked (thebusinessinquirer.substack.com, July 2026).The newsletter and guides are free. EBIT Pro membership pricing is not published on public pages (ebitcommunity.com, July 2026); confirm current terms directly.
Best ForStaying current on the SMB acquisition conversation in ten minutes a week without living on forumsSelf-funded searchers who want a steady feed of curated listings in the $1M to $5M range alongside practical financing content, without paying for a platform
Where It FitsDecide & Choose Your Path, Source & Screen DealsDecide & Choose Your Path, Source & Screen Deals
Our VerdictThe best ten-minute weekly read on the space; subscribe early, then add specialty newsletters as your thesis narrows.A reasonable free addition to a deal-flow inbox; skip the paid tier until the pricing and inclusions are public enough to compare against Searchfunder and the marketplaces.
Pros
  • Genuinely curatorial: surfaces the week's substantive threads and articles rather than recycled listicles
  • The deal-sourcing guide alone is a useful standing reference
  • Free, and readable in one sitting
  • Free weekly digests surface searcher-sized deals without a subscription wall
  • Financing guides cite FOIA-based SBA data and current-year rates rather than evergreen generalities
  • Squarely aimed at the self-funded lane most media coverage skips
Cons
  • Curation is one person's lens; expect the curator's interests to shape coverage
  • Summaries point outward, so depth still requires clicking through
  • No proprietary data; it aggregates the ecosystem rather than adding figures to it
  • EBIT Pro pricing and inclusions are not published, so the paid tier is hard to evaluate before a sales conversation
  • A young publication without the archive depth of the established newsletters
  • Listing digests are curation, not vetting: the diligence burden stays with you

Our take

Take The Business Inquirer if you want to stay current on the conversation in about ten minutes a week: it curates the articles, the community threads worth reading, the events, and the tools, which is the fastest way to stop living on the forums. Two things to know. It is one person's lens, so the coverage follows the curator's interests, and the summaries point outward, so anything you actually need still costs a click.

Take EBIT Community if you want listings in your inbox rather than reading: it digests searcher-sized deals in the $1M to $5M band each week and pairs them with financing content kept current against this year's rates and the government lending file. It is the younger publication and has nowhere near the archive, and its paid tier publishes no price at all, so the free edition is the part you can actually judge.