Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

19-Year old builds a $2M Business to SELL! 💰

18 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube video (hosted/created by Mike Andes) giving concise advice on building and selling a window cleaning business. The speaker emphasizes creating recurring revenue rather than many one-time services, argues that businesses with predictable recurring cashflow are attractive to non-operator buyers, and offers illustrative valuation logic (example: a buyer wanting ~20% return might pay ~$800k for $100k annual cashflow).

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I want to scale it to probably one to two. Okay. And then you want to sell it? Yeah. If you do a $1.52 million business that has eight services and half of its one time projects, no one wants to buy the business. I know we offer at least like 8 to 10 different services right now. So you can build a 1 to 2 million dollar window cleaning business and if you can do all the recurring revenue, you will sell that business. If you can't do that, if it requires an entrepreneur to step in, no one wants to buy the business. And if you can sell it to someone who's not an entrepreneur and just has money, they're like, oh, I just want a 20% return on my money. Yes, I will pay $800,000 for this if I can get $100,000 back in every year that buyer exists. But it's not going to be the person that will come here every single day and work six days a week.