Books about buying companies: acquisitions, private equity, buyouts and growing by acquisition. The authors are investors, acquirers and advisors who have done these deals.
This list holds 9 books published between 2018 and 2024, 4 with an audiobook edition. A book is on it only when buying companies is a central subject of the book, judged from the book's own description, not when it comes up in passing. The most-rated on Amazon come first.
How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
Walker Deibel · 2018
Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven’t engineered a better way to start.…Until now. What if you could skip the startup phase and…
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Adam Coffey · 2019
Private equity firms are on the rise and rapidly changing the game. Today more than 5,500 P.E. firms own tens of thousands of companies, so it is essential for CEOs and senior management executives to understand exactly how private equity firms operate. This…
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Adam Coffey · 2021 · Audiobook
From the bestselling author of The Private Equity Playbook comes Adam Coffey’s second offering, The Exit-Strategy Playbook. Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step…
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How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Your Return and Build Your Legacy
Mert Iseri · 2022 · Audiobook
Before you sell your company, even the odds. While a successful entrepreneur may exit a handful of companies in their lifetime, large buyers close deals all the time. Without decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, founders don’t have the tools…
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Eric Gleacher · Audiobook
Risk: success requires risk, risk that stands firmly on the platform of integrity. Reward: integrity inspires reward, generosity toward those who helped you succeed. Repeat: generosity fuels repetition, helping others to forge their own way forward. These are…
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Michael Vann
People often assume that buying a business is easier when you know the owner--there's a layer of trust and congeniality that doesn't exist among strangers. But if you want to negotiate the best deal for yourself without wrecking relationships, you need to arm…
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Paul Franco · 2024
You’ve spent your career preparing clients for retirement, but are you prepared for your own? The strategies that could make or break you when selling your practice as a financial advisor are easy to overlook. From succession planning and exit strategies to…
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Andrew Gazdecki · 2022 · Audiobook
Andrew Gazdecki knows startups. He founded Bizness Apps as a broke, twenty-something entrepreneur and sold it to a private equity firm before the age of thirty-after going head-to-head with Apple over a blanket App Store policy that threatened to ruin him.…
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Fabio Oliveira · 2022
FOR OVER TEN YEARS, I’ve been obsessed with helping private dentists chase their entrepreneurial spirit to become successful practice owners. All over the country, I’ve had the pleasure of working with very successful doctors who buy highly successful dental…
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