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14 Months from Searcher to $5.5m EBITDA
Published 2 years, 8 months ago
Description
Luis Aguilar found a $1.5m SDE commercial laundry business on BizBuySell, then a second acquisition followed quickly.
Topics in Luis’s interview:
- Geographical search in Florida
- Working with SIG (Search Investment Group) to raise capital
- Pitching investors and overcoming rejection
- Negotiating a dead deal back to life
- Acquiring a linen rental business
- Second order effects of raising employee wages
- Learning all the jobs in the business
- Mental weight of being the chief decision maker
- Doing a second big acquisition in the first year
- Increasing profit in both businesses
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