Best professions to work in before going into acquisition and exit

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September 29, 2021

by a searcher from Hult International Business School in Cambridge, MA, USA

Hi all,

Which professions and roles will prepare you the best to successfully acquire a business and exit for a profit in the future? (Regardless of via search fund set up or not). And what type of experience will those jobs provide that will help once going into ETA?

Would love to hear from experienced professionals or investors and others who have been able to identify success drivers amongst ETA entrepreneurs!

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from University of Southern California in North Palm Beach, FL, USA
See my profile. And, hire advisors (legal, accounting) having a proven history of working for buyers and sellers of the kind and size of deal you intend. Ask how they have FACILITATED deals that should and did occur. Hire deal makers, deal closers.

• Avoid advisors who don’t know enough about dealmaking for small and midsize companies. Not wanting to make mistakes these poseurs are more likely to poo-poo deals or (worse) bless them.

• Hire adequately experienced experts. When they tell you to kill the deal, kill it.

Compatibility among team members is essential.

PM me if you want to Zoom about this.
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Reply by a searcher
in Lancaster County, PA, USA
QLA web site should be your first stop, where you go from there is up to you.
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