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By Walker Deibel. Author of Buy Then Build. Acquisition Lab co-founder.

Walker Deibel
Walker DeibelAuthor. Lab co-founder.

“One of the 7 books every entrepreneur should read.”

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Why buying beats starting

Most people who want to own a business think they have to build one. Buy Then Build lays out the other path. Buy a company that already has customers, staff, and cash flow, then grow it from there.

Chapter one is where that argument starts. The rest of the book is the playbook for doing it.

Skip the startup phase

Starting from zero means years with no revenue, no team, and no proof the idea works. Buying skips to the part where the business already runs.

Cash flow from day one

An existing business pays its own way. Payroll, rent, and the loan that bought it come out of money the company already makes.

Your work compounds

Every improvement you make lands on top of a base that is already there. That is a different bet than hoping a new idea takes off.

From the Lab’s co-founder

Walker Deibel

Walker is the author of Buy Then Build and an Acquisition Lab co-founder. He has bought and run companies himself, and the book is the method he used, written down.

The Lab grew out of the readers who wanted help doing what the book describes.

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