Hot take: you can work and search at the same time.

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by a professional from The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
in Austin, TX, USA

2yrs ago

Hot take: you can work and search at the same time.

I ran YOLO Accounting while searching. And owners of SMBs buy businesses while running their business.

The question isn't if you can, it's how you can.

Most people do search as a solo sport.

Search is way more effective as a team sport.

The following story isn't about me, it's an example of what's possible with the right mindset.

I have a team of up to 7 intern analysts, systems, processes, team culture, team leads, etc. set up so my search was running like a machine. And one person from my YOLO Accounting team was working part-time on the search team.

Now we have a search machine that's ready for the next deal & others have asked for my team to execute this search.

Even if you're just doing one acquisition, building a machine gets better results than going at it solo. It also gives you time to do other things (like consulting, having a life or relaxing from deal stress) while still looking at more deals than other searchers.

I'm curious, what was valuable in this? I want to dial in my content to be even more helpful.

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reply by a professional 2yrs ago
from University of Southern California in North Palm Beach, FL, USA

Lots of searchers successfully do it while employed, and it is much easier looking for businesses near the searcher's location. The key is for the searcher to have positioned himself/herself to be highly marketable to owners and sources of referral to sellers.

reply by a professional 2yrs ago
from The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, USA

I did a cross-country search. I looked at several states across the country. The industry - accounting - was specific. And I had a large intern team and ops structure for them.