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.