15 Minutes To Action - Acquisition Entrepreneurship

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about acquisition entrepreneurship - what it means, how it works, and why this might be a strategy you need to consider on your scale-up journey. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS To make real money in business, you don't do it by running a business. You make it by selling a business. This is a capital event. Many thing that the entrepreneur journey runs from start-up to exit. But this is certainly the long way round. Start-up is not always necessary, and there is far less risk involved when you acquire and sell a business that already works. One in ten new businesses actually succeed. Only 1% of start-ups ever make it through to gaining the funding they require. Building a scaling a business that has a customer base and a product that sells, is far easier than beginning at year dot. Acquiring removes uncertainty. BEST MOMENTS 'I used to think back then that business growth was about marketing and sales' 'Building freedom, wealth and impact through business acquisition is a much more powerful and lucrative approach' 'It's a life-changing moment for any business owner' 'The path is littered with the wreckage of failed start-ups' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/