Nick FisherNew Reach · Co-Founder at New Reach & Agexa

Everything you need to acquire a business for cheap

22 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Nick Fisher explains how to buy controlling stakes in small businesses without paying for the company itself. He covers due diligence and legal costs in exchange for equity, then grew one software company to nearly $8 million in value using this method.

Questions this video answers

50% (acquired half of the software company).

No — the speaker says they acquired 50% with 'no money out of pocket.'

Due diligence, legal, rebrand, remarketing, and build-up (operational) costs.

About $7 million (speaker: 'I could just right now sell for like $7 million').

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So this model is really good for you guys and for the right people. Listening is you can go out and you can find these small businesses, you can acquire 50% of them at no cost. I did this with my software company. I got 50%. I found a software company, I acquired 50% of it. No money out of pocket. I said I'd front all the costs moving forward for the build up and the new legal and the new revamp, and then obviously things would come out of the company moving forward as operational expenses. But like the initial acquisition cost was, I'll front everything for the due diligence, for the legal, for the rebrand, for the remarketing. And so. But that's another reason why I get 50%, you know. And guess what? Now I've grown the company, we're like, we're shy of an eight figure valuation. We're shy of it. But I'm going to end up selling this thing and I'm going to end up making. It's going to be more of like a. Right now I think I could sell. So it kind of goes against my whole thing, by the way. We're looking into it, but things change. Yeah, yeah. But I could just right now sell for like $7 million.