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[Seller’s Name]: You probably receive lots of letters, phone calls, and contacts from brokers, investment bankers, competitors, accountants and “deal makers.” This is different. I’m an entrepreneur backed by a number of prominent investors and private-equity groups who is looking to purchase and run one company. I would move to [Seller’s City] and

providing advice and transaction services to the more complex but (we hoped) more durable and profitable business of investing.

In so cyclical an industry as aviation, in which tiny changes in interest rates and fuel prices and macroeconomic conditions have a huge effect on the bottom line, VEP gave Borman a stunning management advantage. It turned his employees, in essence, into Eastern’s bankers, enabling him to borrow tens of millions of dollars from them—unsecured, not

With early investments in social media companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Zynga, Fred Wilson has become one of the world's most watched angel investors. And one of the opportunities he is watching most attentively is the emerging industry of digital money.

This investment model wasn’t invented by acquisition entrepreneurs. This is exactly the business model driving the entire private equity industry.

Even though he had no assets and was only twenty years old, Alan managed to persuade a bank to loan him the money to buy the bar by arguing that his people skills would ensure his success as the new owner.