This fear of proceeding alone into the unknown often leads Acquisition Entrepreneurs (AEs) to seek out a partner to accompany them on their business buying journey. After all, it’s a lot easier to justify a decision when two people agree on it – even if it turns out to be the wrong decision.
What You’ll Learn Why these home services businesses can be bought so cheaply. Why private equity still isn’t interested in these companies. How to build a company that grows under …
For your business to function in a unique way that brings value to the company and its customers, you need to establish core values. They serve as binding principles for your company’s culture, identity, direction, and goals. Before you tap into the benefits of core values for your business, it helps to understand what they are, why you need them, and how to create them.
Whether you’re the owner of a business or a shift supervisor, learning how to identify high performers in the workplace is a key responsibility for any manager.
High-performing employees can be the difference between success and mediocrity. Sometimes they are the owners, sometimes they are employees. Either way, it’s vital to understand them.
But how do you recognize which workers are outperforming their compatriots and how do you use that knowledge?
In this article, we discuss how to identify high-performing employees, how to define success, and how to turn that knowledge into a system that can help you grow your business.
Many of the companies that our partners acquire are old school, brick and mortar home services businesses. The owners and employees use systems that tend to rely on pens and paper to exchange information.
These outdated systems can be great opportunities to introduce efficiencies into a company as you seek to grow the business, usually by replacing the old-fashioned systems with new technological approaches.
But you should approach any changes to a business with care and consideration for the people who work there. This article explores how to introduce technology to a non-tech business.
When your goal is to build a world-class investment fund and accelerator, it’s vital to have some sort of guiding strategy – a holistic system that drives your culture and informs your purpose. At Acquira, we’ve adopted the Flywheel method as our guiding strategy. Our Flywheel demonstrates how we're able to find the best partners and disqualify bad ones, while finding great deals and giving back to the communities that help our businesses succeed.
Background In today’s case study, we’ll analyze a recent home service business acquisition. We bought Plumb-Tech in September 2020. Almost immediately after revamping its online presence, we saw great improvements …
Before we dive into the benefits of creating and polishing a systematic framework, let’s define it, and understand where the concept came from. What is a Systematic Framework A systematic …
We hope your 2020 is off to as good of a start as ours is. If it's not, perhaps buying a business with us would turn things around. 😉 We …
One thing we learned after our first handful of deals, was that good, growing web assets tended to continue to grow post-acquisition. Unfortunately, those types of deals were few and far between. We realized that by building and scaling our own sourcing and diligence process, we could screen thousands of deals and choose the gems that would lead to long-term success.