Dealmaker Articles

What is a Due Diligence & Due Diligence Checklist? When you plan to buy a company, you want to be sure you fully understand what

When entrepreneurs buy businesses, they need people to work in them and run them. That might mean keeping all the staff already in the business,

It’s possible to buy pretty much any type of small business you can think of. The key to making the right choice is to think

There is no set time frame for buying a business. It depends on things including the seller, the buyer, the professionals on either side of

With very many things that we do, before we jump into it, it pays to spend a little time thinking about what we want to get out of it. Embarking on a business-buying adventure is no different.

You might think that the best types of business to buy are the ones everyone is clamouring for, the hot and trendy businesses, the beautiful ones. I think that’s misguided and you need to change your mindset.

Just 18 months after its launch, Facebook decided to buy another business and so acquired Instagram for $1billion in 2012. At the time, Instagram was a 13-person start-up with 30 million users. Now the photo-sharing app boasts over 600 million users.

Dealmakers can operate in different sectors, buy businesses in different ways and use alternative methods of funding. However, when it comes to successful dealmakers, there are some things they have in common despite other differences in their approach. We take a look at some of those things in this article.

When you intend to build a group of businesses you need to be able to look at a selection of them, evaluate each one and make a decision as to whether to buy. There are bound to be ones you aren’t really sure about, or maybe aren’t really keen on, but if that’s all there is on the table you might find it hard to walk away.