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Field notes on acquiring & building.
M&A and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Why Buying a Business Is the New Startup
Starting from zero is romantic. Buying a profitable business with real customers, real cashflow and a founder ready to hand it over is arguably smarter. Here is how Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition actually works.
The archive
All essays.
Practical writing on M&A, Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, and what it really takes to buy, run and grow an established UK business.
PhilosophyWhy We Only Buy Businesses We'd Be Proud to Run
There is a simple test we run on every business we look at. Would we be proud to walk in on day one and call it ours?
SuccessionWhat Happens to Your Business When You're Ready to Stop?
You spent thirty years building it. What happens next has more effect on your team, your customers, and your family than almost any decision you have made since you started.
ProcessWhy the Best Business Acquisitions Don't Start on a Listing Site
The best acquisitions almost never begin on a listing site. They begin with a direct conversation between an owner and a buyer who took the time to write.
DealsThe 5 Things We Look For Before We Even Pick Up the Phone
Before we write to a founder, somebody on our team has usually spent a couple of days quietly looking into their business. Here is what we are actually looking at.
StrategyBuy and Build: What It Means and Why It's Changing UK Business Ownership
A generation of founders in their sixties and seventies is quietly stepping back. A different generation of buyers is quietly stepping in.
SuccessionWhy Selling to a Competitor Isn't Always the Best Exit
A trade sale looks tidy. Under the surface, it is almost always about consolidation, and the thing you built stops existing as itself.
ProcessHow Serious Acquirers Finance UK Business Purchases in 2025
One of the most useful things a business owner can understand before selling is how the person buying their company actually intends to pay for it.
StrategyWhy We Focus on Compliance-Driven Businesses
Our recurring revenue does not come from subscriptions. It comes from the fact that our customers' customers have to keep buying the service, whether they feel like it or not.
OperationsWhat We Actually Do After We Buy a Business
The most common question a nervous seller asks us is a version of the same thing. What will you actually do with it after you have bought it?
PhilosophyWe're Not a Fund. We're Operators.
A founder asks about our fund size. They want to know our exit horizon. It is a fair assumption. We do not fit it.
Beyond the deal
Building the business.
If you are thinking about the next chapter for your business, we would like to hear from you. Confidential, informal, no obligation.
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