The value in Low SDE Businesses

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by a professional from Bishop's University
in Moncton, NB, Canada

3yrs ago

The value in Low SDE Businesses

The value in Low SDE businesses.

Having trouble finding a business that makes sense to you?

Maybe you should be hunting for something smaller.

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reply by a searcher 3yrs ago
from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Perhaps I'm wrong here, but seems like for some highly compensated professionals it might be better to stick to their corporate role and invest in other searchers to get exposure to the upside of buying a business (seeing some people here looking for investors with tickets as low as 50K). That way you can potentially get some upside, keep your income level and likely don't even need to adjust your lifestyle... am I missing something here? (perhaps the cases where you go buy a business due to the thrill of the process).

reply by a professional 3yrs ago
from Bishop's University in Moncton, NB, Canada

You're right. There has always been a challenge for highly paid individuals to justify leaving those careers to be in business for themselves. It's why you see so many high-income people investing in real estate, for example. Yes, they could make good LPs in someone else's deal.