Buy Then Build PDF – Walker Deibel

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My name is on the cover of this book, but all I did was surround myself with great people and connect dots that already existed. So many greater than I have helped me understand entrepreneurship, investing, the private markets, acquisition, exiting, business strategy, psychology, how to grow companies, and the creation of this book.

Buy Then Build PDF – Walker Deibel

First, please understand that nothing would happen without my jawdroppingly amazing wife. Colleen is beautiful, hardworking, and fiercely intelligent. Living with her and our three very resourceful girls fills me with immense gratitude and joy daily. Without her enduring support and never-ending ability to shore up my many shortcomings, neither my choice of work nor this book would be possible. Buy Then Build PDF

Thank you for all that you are, Colleen (… and for giving birth to those three little startups). My grandfathers, Bob Deibel and Frank Corley, were the original acquisition entrepreneurs. They set the stage for progress through this adventure before I was old enough to know that I had opposing thumbs. We walk the path now that has been cleared by the generations before us.

Acquisition entrepreneurship, although seen today in a new light, was embodied by great business owners like these decades ago. I need to thank my many business partners. Anywhere in this book where the word “I” is used, I assure you it is a “we.” Business is a team sport, and I have been so fortunate to surround myself with superhuman and amazing partners.

Buy Then Build PDF – Walker Deibel

Don’t think this is limited to business partners, but also managers, co-investors, and employees. Every day, our businesses grow and thrive because of your thoughtful input and dedicated effort. Together we build. Chad Troutwine for his truly limitless inspiration and encouragement. He was the first one I spoke to about the concept of Buy Then Build, and he has been watering the seed with his gregarious enthusiasm and insightful and 284 intelligent advice for years. Buy Then Build PDF

Chad is a force of nature, a great business partner, and a true friend. I have immense gratitude for Ken Harrington, the founding Managing Director of the Skandalaris Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. One couldn’t ask for a better mentor and teacher for entrepreneurship.

Ken’s approach values both academic and real-life experiences, which culminate in a whole greater than its parts. Ken taught me much of my foundational understanding of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and private equity, and he has built one of the best entrepreneurship programs in the world.

Buy Then Build PDF – Walker Deibel

The managing director of the Kingsley Group, Gary Rogers, has been a godsend. At times, Gary has been my closest partner, both in executing business strategy and in the buying and selling of businesses. If there is anything in this book about business transactions that is worth reading, it likely originated with Gary. Buy Then Build PDF

I am so thankful to Michal Nall for creating the Alliance of M&A Advisors and the Certified M&A Advisor program. I received both a quantitative understanding of the private capital markets, training in best practices in M&A Advisory, and access to an expansive network of middle market M&A Advisors.

He coauthored the textbook Middle Market M&A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting with Kenneth Marks, Robert Slee, and Christian Blees, which is the quintessential book on the subject for middle market advisors. He is a wealth of knowledge and eager to share it with the world.

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