Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and Venture Capital Investors

Private Equity Masterclass: How to Buy Your First Company

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Nov 24, 2025

A crash course on buying existing businesses and why acquisition beats startup risk. Coverage of the $10 trillion transfer as baby-boom owners retire. A clear buy, fix, sell playbook with valuation basics, lender-friendly deal structures, and a 100-day value-creation sprint. Practical outreach scripts, due diligence priorities, smart use of SBA debt, and common mindset mistakes for first-time acquirers.

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Professionalize To Expand Multiples

Professionalize the business with reporting, KPIs, and a management layer to earn higher exit multiples.
Buyers pay 30–50% more for predictable, scalable companies versus mom-and-pop operations.

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Build A Focused Sourcing Engine

Define a strict 'buy box' for niche, geography, margins, and owner profile before sourcing deals.
Use NAICS codes and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, then send respectful, personalized outreach to owners nearing retirement.

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Outreach Script That Works

Reach out with a short confidential message stressing legacy and employee care, not a broker sales pitch.
Expect roughly two replies per 40 outreach messages and one real conversation.

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Are you looking to achieve financial freedom by moving beyond the high-risk startup game? This episode of Making Billions is your battle-tested blueprint for entering the world of private equity and small business acquisition. Host Ryan Miller, breaks down the simple but brutally effective PE process: Buy, Fix, and Sell.

Discover the massive, often-overlooked $10 trillion wealth transfer opportunity as baby boomer owners of profitable small companies look to retire.

We dive deep into why buying an existing business is the new building, understanding valuation, learning the non-negotiable rules of due diligence, mastering the deal structure that gets you funded and finally avoiding the five mindset mistakes of first-time acquirers.

This is the playbook for building an empire, one smart acquisition at a time.

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