Buying Smaller?

For a long time I thought I was pretty healthy, but recently I got a glucose monitor to learn about the effects of food. Turns out I ate pretty unhealthily; a few tweaks and results followed like magic. It was almost embarrassingly simple. It got me thinking about my search criteria and whether there are small tweaks to make in search that might be helpful. One of my longest held criteria is earnings size; I think I’m changing my mind on lower SDE businesses as a potential “get-on-base” strategy. There are just more of them which should raise the odds of acquiring any one. While compromising on size makes value proposition, revenue quality, and margin more important, I’d hope the increase in funnel volume would be worth it. Especially for those who have acquired companies below initial target earnings range: anything I’m missing in looking at buying and operating smaller businesses?