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Tato Corcoran packed a lifetime of learning (and tears) into 18 months when she left tech & bought a tiny manufacturer.
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The construction services business Christian Bateson bought will do $7.5m in 2024. It also rescued him from the depths.
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Respected consumer brands are not common in lower middle market acquisitions, but Philip Hussey and Chenmark bought one.
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
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Robert Gayden worked for over a year to buy a home care business. Revenue kept growing but the price remained the same.
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Scott Duncan endured brutal ups & downs — and personal depression — during his ownership of a doomed tool & die business
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Andy Rougeot launched remote territories of the blue collar business he bought, which led to $1.7m of EBITDA and an exit
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Steve Carroll started as an SBA searcher before pivoting to a PE-backed roll-up. It's gone better than he ever expected.
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Jake Bittner bought an unprofitable carve-out doing $3m. A key pivot grew revenue to $20m and got the attention of PE.
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Dave Gilbert spent 2 years fixing the model and customer concentration of the $750k SDE family business he bought with SBA debt.
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Taylor Mattingly found high-quality revenue in an unusual and sizable B2C business that he happened to be a customer of.
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
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