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Buy Then Build

How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

16 minWalker Deibel

What's it about

Tired of the high-risk, high-stress startup hustle? What if you could skip the most dangerous years and jump straight to a profitable, running business? This summary reveals a smarter path to entrepreneurship: buying an existing company instead of building one from scratch. Discover the proven playbook for finding, financing, and running a successful acquisition. You'll learn how to leverage your existing skills, avoid the pitfalls of a startup, and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams faster and with far less risk than you ever thought possible.

Meet the author

Walker Deibel is a serial acquisition entrepreneur who has acquired seven companies, co-founded three startups, and advised on over one billion dollars in M&A transactions. This firsthand experience in the trenches of buying, operating, and selling businesses forms the foundation of his revolutionary acquisition entrepreneurship framework. Frustrated by the high-failure rate of traditional startups, he wrote Buy Then Build to codify a more reliable path to business ownership, creating the definitive playbook for those who want to outsmart the startup game.

Buy Then Build book cover

What's it about

Tired of the high-risk, high-stress startup hustle? What if you could skip the most dangerous years and jump straight to a profitable, running business? This summary reveals a smarter path to entrepreneurship: buying an existing company instead of building one from scratch. Discover the proven playbook for finding, financing, and running a successful acquisition. You'll learn how to leverage your existing skills, avoid the pitfalls of a startup, and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams faster and with far less risk than you ever thought possible.

Meet the author

Walker Deibel is a serial acquisition entrepreneur who has acquired seven companies, co-founded three startups, and advised on over one billion dollars in M&A transactions. This firsthand experience in the trenches of buying, operating, and selling businesses forms the foundation of his revolutionary acquisition entrepreneurship framework. Frustrated by the high-failure rate of traditional startups, he wrote Buy Then Build to codify a more reliable path to business ownership, creating the definitive playbook for those who want to outsmart the startup game.