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A CEO, locked in competition with another bidder for a company, can lose track of the broader reasons for the acquisition.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
WARREN BUFFETT Founder and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
sell less of the company per dollar of capital you raise.
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
So if you’re going to dedicate your life to a business, which is the only way it will ever work, you should choose one with the potential to be huge.
Stephen A. Schwarzman • What It Takes
Bill Gurley • On the Road to Recap: | Above the Crowd
small firms of the size we discuss in this book regularly sell for three to five times the company’s annual profits.
Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
although you may have doubled your business, the new investor may look at your last valuation and feel as though you had been given forward credit for that type of success.
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
As a result, I have found that the most “affordable” acquisitions for financial buyers and acquisition entrepreneurs can be had in the $250,000 to $700,000 SDE range.
Walker Deibel • Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
The first deep filter to apply to a prospect is an assessment of its enduring profitability.