Have any small business owners here ever considered growing through acquisitions?

What was your experience like?

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I did. I did it totally wrong. I hired a broker for a search and got pigeon holed into a single search. I the read a book called “Buy then build” which I think is pretty basic but was good at framing how I should do it. I had some success since then.

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Sure send a DM, no problem. I had a digital agency. We ended up talking to people who had 5-10 person agencies and thought they were the next coming of Steve Jobs, or companies that were around our size with founders who were asking why they needed me - or thought they could do it on their own - or wanted tech / SaaS multiples for a service based company.

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