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Resources
On Buying a SMB Business
- Buy Then Build – Walker Diebel
- Buy Then Build – Preparing your first offer
- Buy Then Build – BLOG
- SMB M&A Pipeline Q4 2023 – Axial
I’m excited about acquiring a businesses in 2024 in the $700K-1.5M EBITDA range within the next 3-6 months.
Businesses for Sale
- BizBuySell.com
- BizBuySell TX
- Tresle.com
- Truview Businesses For Sale
- Buyandsellabusiness.com
- Searchfunder.com
- axial.net
- https://www.acquisition.com/
- Embrace Benchmark
- Morgan and Westfield
- Quiet Light
Sites, Resources and Tools
- Amortization Calculator
- EBITDA Multiples for Small Businesses – 2023 – First Page Sage
- Self-Funded Acquisition Entrepreneurship Explained
- https://sweatystartup.com/how-to-start-a-pest-control-company/
- https://neilpatel.com/ – digital marketing, NP Digital
- https://andrewroche99.com/seo-basics/ – SEO Basics
- SBA Investor Bank list:
- Love this one pager link here:
- Four types of business brokers and how to win them over: Clint Fiore
- How to Do Stuff – A Guide for Operators — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
- Love this Investment Model: Praxis – Redemptive Entrepreneurship
Follows 2024 – Small Business Investing, Private Equity, SMB Purchasing, Business and Health
- Brian Beers – Website – Build a fortune through Franchising
- Private Equity Guy – Beehiiv
- Huberman Lab – Twitter
- Peter Attia MD – Website
- Alex Hormozi – Twitter
- Leila Hormozi – X – Twitter
- Tony Robbins – Website
- Codie Sanchez – Contrarian Thinking Website
- David Senra – Founders Podcast
Getting started in Search Funding 2024
I recommend starting with some of the classic resources – the Stanford Primer and the HBR guide to buying a small business. Most of this recommended by a really great guy: @
- https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds/primer
- https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-buying-a-small-business/10090
- https://endurancesearchpartners.com/understanding-the-search-fund-model/
- https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/j-wasserstein
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737011905
Other’s Learnings from SearchFunding Conferences:
- https://medium.com/@EddyZakes/what-i-learned-2019-stanford-search-fund-ceo-conference-f2f842fba5af
- https://www.axial.net/forum/takeaways-harvard-business-school-2019-search-fund-conference/
New Economy, what’s it based on:
1. Value is created by coordinating our efforts.
2. Trust, you trust them enough to be in the room.
3. Permission, delivering messages to people who want to get them.
4. Sharing ideas, all of us are smarter than any of us.
Generosity and ART.
Generosity, no one wants to connect to something that’s just taking.
“Art begs for connection.” _SethGodin
Archived Resources:
Business
- Advantage Model – Lencioni
- Steve Blank’s Startup Tools here
- Stanford D-School Methods
- The Macro Y-Combinator
- White Space for Product Managers – Daniel F Schmidt
- Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas – Paul Graham
- Do you feel pressure or apply pressure – Ben Horowitz
- On Netflix Culture – Reed Hastings
- On Leadership Principles – AMZN
Digital Strategy
- business model canvas
- Implementing your business with Galbraith Star Model
- strategy + business
- IBM Strategy and Transformation
- 61 Forms of Gameplay – Simon Wardley
Coding
- Trailhead for SalesForce
- Code Academy
- Console.developers.google.com – Google APIs
- More to come
People to follow
- Smart Passive Income – Pat Flynn
- Social Triggers – Derek Halpern
- Essays – Paul Graham
- https://www.principles.com by Ray Dalio
Customer Experience
- Experience Matters – Temkin Group
- The Customer Journey to Online Purchase – Google Insights
- CX Journey Mapping Toolkit
Smplcty
Organizing
Favorite Online Business Class
Leadership
Goals
SEO
Project Management