One-Person MSP Business Acqusition

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by a searcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte
in Charlotte, NC, USA

1yr ago

One-Person MSP Business Acqusition

I am looking at MSP space and want to hear your thoughts on a One-Person MSP. deals. The one I am looking at is a small Cloud solutions provider for Legal and Medical businesses to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. On one hand I understand the risks associated with it in terms of technical knowledge, customer relationship, growth potential, etc., on other hand I believe I can quickly get up to speed on technical skills and then hire/train a resource to handle the technical work so I can focus on marketing and acquiring more customers. Please share your thoughts/experience.

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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
in Vancouver, BC, Canada

If you're looking at a one-person MSP I'm presuming they're maybe like 100k SDE? You're not buying a business at that point. I'm not sure what you're buying, just a few contracts or software licenses?

If you're interested in the MSP space without technical knowledge, I'd either look for a larger deal (at least 500k EBITDA) or to back a technical account manager who wants to go start their own business and you handle the finance/ops side while they handle the technical side.

reply by a lender 1yr ago
from Eastern Illinois University in 900 E Diehl Rd, Naperville, IL 60563, USA

^redacted‌ thank you for the tag. I would concur with Brandon down below. You really have to be sure they have sticky customers beyond the owner and understand who does the work. Happy to have a discussion or take a look and see if we can be of any assistance. You can reach me here or directly at redacted Good luck.