How to Buy a Business, Without Investing Your Own Cash with Carl Allen
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Carl is an entrepreneur, investor, and corporate deal-maker who has worked on transactions worth over $50 billion, which includes over 250 acquisitions and sales, together with more than 100 capital fundraising projects. He is one of the world's premier experts on buying and financing small business acquisitions and coaches more than 1000 entrepreneurs all over the world to buy small businesses rather than starting new ones.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It's so much easier and so much quicker - and it's far less riskier - to actually go and acquire a business that somebody else has built but no longer wants to own. You can buy or invest in that business using the business's own resources.
2. The best way to find deals is networking.
3. As you are teaching or mentoring, you're going to help refine what you do and get better every single day. Every single time you answer a question, you remove an obstacle and you identify a challenge, and it's going to help you as you move forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom, shake the room, Fire Nation. |
| 0:04.1 | JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, |
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| 0:13.5 | Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire classic episode |
| 0:17.2 | from the archives and we'll be breaking down |
| 0:19.5 | how to buy a business without investing |
| 0:21.8 | your own cash with Carl Allen. Carl is an entrepreneur investor and corporate dealmaker who has |
| 0:28.0 | worked on transactions worth over $50 billion, which includes over 250 acquisitions and sales |
| 0:33.8 | together with more than a hundred capital fundraising projects. He is one of the world's premier experts on buying and financing small business acquisitions |
| 0:41.8 | and coaches more than a thousand entrepreneurs all over the world to buy small businesses |
| 0:46.6 | rather than start new ones. |
| 0:48.8 | In today, Fire Nation, we will be talking about why it's so much easier and quicker and |
| 0:52.8 | less risky to go acquire a business that someone else has built but no longer wants to own the best ways to find deals in networking and so much more. |
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| 1:41.4 | Carl, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself that most people might not know. |
| 1:48.5 | Hey, what's up, Fire Nation? So really good to be on the show, GLD. Thanks for, thanks for having me. |
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