About this episode
When most people would be considering retirement, Anne Ristic started a new chapter of her career by buying a business.
Topics in Anne's interview:
- Deciding to buy a business at age 60
- How Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired her to buy a business
- How she budgeted her target acquisition size
- Raising money from banks for an acquisition in Canada
- Canadian banks' familiarity with search
- About AES, the business she bought
- Growth potential for PEO in Canada
- How much industry research she did
- How she envisions growing AES
- Meeting the managers during the transaction process
- Nuances to search in Canada
- communEtA, the student-run investment group
- Being a woman when buying a business
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- anne AT agencyemployment DOT ca
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