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First-Time Buyer Recipe for Success: Action & Small Steps
About this episode
Connor Pera shares how taking incremental steps led to buying his first business much sooner than expected.
Topics in Connor’s interview:
- Trade-offs of a part-time search
- Importance of taking action
- Competition in the web-to-print industry
- Pros and cons of an SBA loan
- The appeal of managing people
- His mistake of not accounting for working capital adjustments
- Feeling anxious before closing
- Transitioning to ownership and fatherhood at the same time
- The importance of knowing oneself
- The value of his business school education
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