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Awakening to Entrepreneurship to Buy a Not-Boring Business
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
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When Shell Zhang recognized her own tolerance for risk she stepped off a linear path to buy a $600k SDE travel business.
Topics in Shell’s interview:
- Buying a group tour business
- Overcoming key-person risk
- Going from a regional company to a national company
- Avoiding “boring businesses”
- Paying over asking price for the business
- Why payment processors consider her business “high risk”
- Starting from zero with online marketing
- What her clients love about the business
- Possible areas for growth
- Her goal of redoing the website
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