I’m looking to acquire some small businesses (3-5 @ <1.2m valuation) and while I have the basics down reading through financials & doing my own valuations, I want to learn more about strategy and structure as well as learn from past mistakes. Anything books come to mind? A lot of the M&A books I’ve found are directed toward M&A teams at large corps, which I am not.

Thanks!

Edit: I’m mostly looking at established semi-local small businesses as owners retire increasingly faster… not messing with asset-less, cashflow-less tech startups.

  • naripan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For general strategy, I recommend “Foundations of Strategy by Robert M. Grant”. It’s quite old, but the content makes sense and it has some good case studies as well.