In a previous blog post, The Risks of Financial Leverage in Small Business Acquisitions, I discussed the increased number of online influencers. They are promoting small business acquisitions as a path to creating wealth. While there are plenty of entrepreneurs who have become very wealthy acquiring small businesses, these deals are not without risk. Influencers […]
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Why Small Business Acquisitions Look So Attractive Many business influencer’s have been touting the benefits of acquiring a small business and installing an operator. As someone who has invested in a handful of small businesses and has consulted for many more, I thought it would be remiss of me not to highlight some of the
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Why I Changed My Topic This Week I had a very different week of content planned. My original idea was to dive into the 2021–2022 inflation cycle, and particularly the misguided monetary and fiscal policies that fueled it. But on Monday morning, I came across an article on CNBC.com titled When “invest like the 1%”
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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that words matter. In the world of finance, the terms investment and speculation are often blurred. We frequently use “investment” as a catch-all to describe any outlay of money made in the hope of future profit. I’m as guilty as anyone of using it in this overly broad sense.
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I don’t frequently do book reviews, but occasionally a book is published that is so closely aligned with the Fundamental Investing Institute’s mission of educating and empowering entrepreneurs and individual investors that I would be remiss not to comment on it. Codie Sanchez’s book, Main Street Millionaire: How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses
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