Buy Then Build
How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

Yes, it is a good book. Good all-round information from why buying to actually concluding a deal. I must admit I was more after information for buying companies with LBO type financial engineering. After reading more about acquisition entrepreneurship lately and not just in this book, I have come to......more

Book in a sentence: shows how to do entrepreneurship through acquisitions, in which instead of you starting a startup, you buy existing and profitable companies. Lesson learned: the kind of entrepreneurship I've most identified with and want to pursue wholeheartedly.......more

Walker Deibel is an Aquisition Entrepeneur. He Buys established smaller companies, takes over as CEO, then continues to Build them. He starts the book with the obvious. Most startups fail. Furthermore, starting a business costs money. It is surprisingly affordable, especially compared to this, to ac......more

Most products that we use on a daily basis were companies that were bought by others. McDonalds, Google Docs, Tesla, I’d argue the second time that Steve Jobs came back to Apple. None of these were the founders. They were the people who took a product market fit business and turned them into large s......more

A hands-on, very pragmatic book about acquiring a small business. Not too little but not too much information, just the right amount.......more