Ebook HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Think Big Buy Small Own Your Own Company HBR Guide Series Richard S Ruback Royce Yudkoff Books
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Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards―as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success.
But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, Harvard Business School professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff help you
- Determine if this path is right for you
- Raise capital for your acquisition
- Find and evaluate the right prospects
- Avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search
- Understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment
- Negotiate a potential deal with the seller
- Avoid deals that fall through at the last minute
Ebook HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Think Big Buy Small Own Your Own Company HBR Guide Series Richard S Ruback Royce Yudkoff Books
"This is a very comprehensive and useful book. It takes the reader chronologically through the business-buying process, making it both enjoyable to read from front to bad but also very useful as a quick-reference took for various aspects of the process.
Only negative is that I don't think they spend enough time on the downside of buying a business. They talk about the dangers of not finding one to buy, but they don't paint a thorough or realistic enough picture of how tough it can be once you're in it, especially if a crisis hits.
But overall - a great tool and highly recommended."
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Think Big Buy Small Own Your Own Company HBR Guide Series Richard S Ruback Royce Yudkoff Books Reviews :
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Think Big Buy Small Own Your Own Company HBR Guide Series Richard S Ruback Royce Yudkoff Books Reviews
- I purchased this book after hearing an HBR IdeaCast interview with professors Ruback and Yudkoff. Their book provides a clear and thorough but concise roadmap to anyone seriously interested in pursuing entrepreneurship through acquisition of a small business. First of all, the book will help you decide whether entrepreneurship is a good match to your personality, experience and professional desires. The remaining chapters walk you through the steps of preparing for and conducting a search and completing the acquisition process.
It's clear to me that the authors have a great combination of knowledge, experience and personal interest in entrepreneurship through acquisition that informed this book and their other articles, interviews and publicly available materials. While I have a professional background in finance and institutional investing, I am currently preparing to search for a business to acquire and am very grateful to have access to the information in this book, which was previously only available to HBS students through Ruback and Yudkoff's class. - Makes for a good text book, however, it seems to me that the intended audience is the ivy league type entrepreneur. The book is written from a Harvard perspective and once you look at the kind of number$ they budget for acquisition, you'll understand. I've read it, and have taken away some questions to ask when starting to acquire a biz, however, I'm sure there are more practical books out there.
- This is a very comprehensive and useful book. It takes the reader chronologically through the business-buying process, making it both enjoyable to read from front to bad but also very useful as a quick-reference took for various aspects of the process.
Only negative is that I don't think they spend enough time on the downside of buying a business. They talk about the dangers of not finding one to buy, but they don't paint a thorough or realistic enough picture of how tough it can be once you're in it, especially if a crisis hits.
But overall - a great tool and highly recommended. - Very good introduction to how to buy a business. You will become more knowledge about what to discuss with brokers, sellers, accountants, and attorneys you meet while searching for a business to buy.
The one negative is a lot of repetition of similar ideas such as buying a business for 3-5 times EBITDA, the steps in due diligence, and fundraising. The book seems to cycle through these concepts 3 times. The repetition gets a little dull.
Nevertheless, still a great book to read and very informative! - I purchased this book after hearing the HBR podcast and reading the HBR article by Professors Ruback and Yudkoff. I never thought I would describe a business book as a page-turner, but as the authors explain the idea of entrepreneurship through acquisition and offer examples of the types of businesses that are enduringly profitable, it’s hard to put the book down. That wasn’t just my experience with the book. Two friends and I have now launched a search fund. This book has been our roadmap as we raise funds and search for the right company.
- This is an outstanding resource. I have used it with an MBA entrepreneurship practicum. I would definitely recommend this book.
- This book is a great read, completely recommend it for someone interested in buying a company - even if it doesn't quite fit the mold suggested by this book.
- Thanks for writing the HBR Guide on Buying a Small Business. I have been lightly looking into doing something similar for the last couple years and ran into dead ends with the people that I knew in the accounting, venture capital and private equity worlds. Thus, I really appreciate how accessible you made this activity. I am in the process acting on the information you provided. There is no bigger compliment than that.
