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Best acquisitions are off market ones #entrepreneurship #buyabusiness #investing

15 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In a concise pitch, a seasoned entrepreneur with 15 years of experience buying and selling businesses argues that the most advantageous acquisition deals are found off‑market. He explains that popular online marketplaces such as BizBuySell, Flippa, and Acquire.com attract many buyers, driving up competition and price. By contrast, sophisticated investors—private equity firms, family offices, and seasoned entrepreneurs—focus on off‑market opportunities. The speaker shares his personal success with three off‑market deals and introduces three preferred sources for locating such deals, highlighting the platform offmarket.so, which aggregates internet businesses for sale, provides growth and category data, and supplies direct contact information. He invites viewers to comment for additional resources.

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In 15 years of buying and selling businesses, I can tell you that I've learned one thing: the best deals happen off market. So most people, when they go look to buy a business, go to like BizBuySell or Flippa or Acquire.com. Problem with all these places is that everyone is already looking at these places, which means that the competition is the highest it could be as a buyer. Higher competition means higher price. So all the private equity firms, family offices, and more sophisticated investors do all off market deals. I bought 3 off market deals myself, and there's 3 places I like to look for them. Let me show you. Okay, so check out offmarket.so. Find your perfect acquisition in minutes, not months. It aggregates a bunch of different internet businesses that should be for sale, puts together reviews, their growth, the category, and then gives you all their contact information. Comment market below and I'll send you the other two.