A founder talks about what happens after you buy a business. Buying it is straightforward. Running it, keeping it alive, learning the systems and the people—that's where most owners hit the wall and need help from others who've been there.
This is war. This is a process. This is every single day we're learning something new. We're getting rejected. When we're learning what we don't want to do, we're going, you know, we get to the finish line and something changes. And now, like, we just destroy three months worth of work. And, like, we feel defeated. And so having a pack of people to carry you through this process to get to the finish line, when the average timeline is like nine months for somebody to complete a deal, full cycle from quality of earnings, due diligence, legal structuring, like, we have to build your confidence, then we have to show you the way. Then we need to teach you what you need to buy, why you need to buy it, how you're going to pay for it, and then close on it. And then once you close on it, you go, oh, crap, now I got to run a business. How am I going to do that? I never bought a business. Now I bought a business. Now I got to run one. This is a way to tap into other people that are doing the exact same things that you are.
