• Awakening to Entrepreneurship to Buy a Not-Boring Business

  • Jan 30 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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Awakening to Entrepreneurship to Buy a Not-Boring Business

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  • Register for the webinars:

    • Legal Preparation for Your Search - Thu Jan 30 - https://bit.ly/4hlhlic
    • 5 Stages of the Business Buying Process - Thu Feb 6 - https://bit.ly/3Qautet


    When Shell Zhang recognized her own tolerance for risk she stepped off a linear path to buy a $600k SDE travel business.

    Topics in Shell’s interview:

    • Buying a group tour business
    • Overcoming key-person risk
    • Going from a regional company to a national company
    • Avoiding “boring businesses”
    • Paying over asking price for the business
    • Why payment processors consider her business “high risk”
    • Starting from zero with online marketing
    • What her clients love about the business
    • Possible areas for growth
    • Her goal of redoing the website

    References and how to contact Shell:

    • LinkedIn
    • Nada’s Italy

    Learn more about Walker Deibel's done-with-you buy-side advisory:

    • The Acquisition Lab

    Get a complimentary IT audit of your target business:

    • Email Nick Akers at nick@inzotechnologies.com, and tell him you’re a searcher

    Download the New CEO’s Guide to Human Resources from Aspen HR:

    • From this page or contact mark@aspenhr.com

    Connect with Acquiring Minds:

    • See past + future interviews on the YouTube channel
    • Connect with host Will Smith on LinkedIn
    • Follow Will on Twitter
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