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speak to someone with the Money, the Authority and the Need to buy from me.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
You’ve assumed most of the risk and the acquiring company gets most of the reward if you’re successful. Acquiring companies use an earn-out formula to buy a business when they know the founders are the business. Your job is to build the Stapleton Agency up to a point where the business is independent of Alex Stapleton.
John Warrillow • Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
Second, the prospect was an established business roughly in the size range that Randy was interested in; a purchase at 4x 2011 EBITDA would be $4.0 million, an amount he believed he could finance with a combination of bank debt, seller debt, and investors’ equity.
Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

Complex Sales
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
can be a part of the value chain
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
You could also own it as an owner where you started the company. Ownership is really important. [10]
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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