About this episode
Jason Andrews paid $250k to a buy-side advisor to help find & acquire his first business — and would 100% do it again.
Themes from Jason's interview:
- Paying a premium for a good business
- Working with a buy-side advisor: price, value, what they do
- Speaking to 30 sellers
- Buying a business in your 40s
- Taking a big swing
- Where he invested his time during due diligence
- Whether he was "buying a job"
- The consulting agreement he structured with the previous owners
- Buying big or buying small
- Going from corporate to small business
- Pros & cons of group purchasing organizations (GPOs)
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