267 - Getting Reps: Helping Others Look at Deals Led to a Holdco

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by a searcher from Brown University
in Arlington, VA, USA

2yrs ago

267 - Getting Reps: Helping Others Look at Deals Led to a Holdco

Today's guest brings a broad perspective to entrepreneurship through acquisition. He didn't arrive here by reading Walker Deibel's book or taking an ETA class in business school. Instead, Adam Markley was a partner in an education venture that taught people how to buy a business. The venture had a big UK focus, so it didn't revolve around SBA financing. This steeped Adam in an approach where heavy seller financing & more creative structures to buy a business was more common. It also gave Adam lots & lots of reps looking at deals, as he would help evaluate the acquisitions of the members in this community. Adam (far right) & the F.W. Haxel teamFlash forward, and today Adam has been involved in many of his own acquisitions, and his personal holding company here in the States includes 5 businesses he either fully or partially acquired, and 1 he's started from scratch. Another theme to listen for in this interview is how Adam works with operating partners, a feature that is present in almost all his holdings. Here is Adam Markley, founder of PROX Capital Group.

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