What it will do
Four answers, in about ten minutes
It won't be a quiz, and it won't be a lead magnet with nothing inside it. It runs the actual arithmetic a lender would, against the life you actually have.
- 1Your price ceilingThe largest business you can realistically buy, calculated from the cash you'd actually put in — not what a listing site suggests.
- 2The maximum multiple you can payAnd why it's lower on a small business than a large one — the opposite of what most people assume. Almost nobody teaches this, and it decides what you can go after.
- 3Your operating envelopeHours, days on site, travel radius, and what your household actually needs the business to pay you from month one. Copy it, hand it to a broker.
- 4An honest verdictIncluding "not yet" — with the specific things to fix first. Better to hear it here than eighteen months and $40,000 of diligence later.
Who's telling you this
Founded, bought, and sold.
I'm doing this myself, in public
I'm buying a business right now. Everything I publish is what I'm actually running into — the paperwork, the numbers, and the conversations nobody talks about.
- Raised $50M+ in venture capitalCo-founder and CEO, Vendia
- Founded the blockchain business at AWSBuilt a new line inside Amazon from zero
- Bought and sold companiesPart owner in several acquisitions and exits, including a BigData/ML business sold to a leading media company
- M&A from the institutional sideVP Corporate Development, Bank of America
What I actually need right now
Just tell me what stopped you
I'm interviewing people who've wanted to buy a business and haven't. Half an hour, no pitch, and I'll answer whatever you're stuck on in return. This is also what the tool is waiting on — it doesn't go out until real buyers have pulled it apart.
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