Go Do Deals: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Buying & Selling Businesses Paperback – December 8, 2020

Singapore author Jeremy Harbour is an esteemed expert on Mergers and Acquisitions and is in demand around the world for speaking engagements and workshops. He is the founder of Unity Group, a firm specializing in attracting investments and creating opportunities of small to medium sized enterprises, and Harbour Club, where he teaches real tactics for buying, fixing, and selling businesses. His books to date – WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY A COMPANY THAT’S FOR SALE, AGGLOMERATE: FROM IDEA TO IPO IN 12 MONTHS, GO DO!, and now GO DO DEALS: THE ENTREPRENEUR’S GUIDE TO BUYING & SELLING BUSINESSES.A glimpse at Jeremy’s depth of knowledge and wit is evident in a Preface where he defines his reasons for starting his Harbour Club: ‘Our closed social network holds regular meetups, chat groups, and video conferences to share our experiences. But I don’t make my money selling training. I make my money doing deals. I am a deal junkie first and foremost, and the Harbour Club is my network of dealmakers…Our best dealmakers take natural leadership positions, sharing their stories and experiences, and helping people get deals done…I believe that an acquisition is the only way a business can double its size “in an afternoon” and sometimes the only way it can grow to the next level…A solid plan to become one of the larger players is to mop up a number of smaller companies to give you a quick scale…’With that energetic opening, Jeremy launches into his recommendations of buying and selling business by offering examples from his own history in business, thus punctuating the valid (and very enviable!) points he makes. His thought processes are clearly stated in the four parts of the book – Why you should Go Do Deals, Where you find he Deals to Go Do, How you Do the Deals, and What to Do after you’ve Done the Deal. As he has stated, ‘Wealthy entrepreneurs can solve the most significant problems, unlike struggling entrepreneurs. Wealth should not be exclusive. Participation in good business creates jobs and that should be rewarded. This concept gets me out of bed in the morning. I’m living proof of what I preach/.’Impressive, eye opening, and most of all, compassionate, this book underlines Jeremy Harbour’s passion to empower entrepreneurs and to help democratize wealth in a meritocratic way! Highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 20

Go Do Deals: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Buying & Selling Businesses by Jeremy Harbour is an easy to read book citing the author's own experience in buying and selling businesses. This is a rather new approach to how to think about investing; rather than running a business, a good option might be buying businesses. Harbour details many examples of his past deals, giving you a glimpse into his success and specific methodology to take advantage of business opportunities. Acquisition plays a significant role in creating wealth as any savvy investor will tell you. Sometimes the best way to scale a business is to invest in other similar businesses, making you more of a major player. A "growth by acquisition engine" is a great way to think of this opportunity. Well written in an easy reading manner, this is a highly recommended book if you are looking for ways to increase your aptitude in buying and selling businesses.

In this title, the author tells you how they feel about business and the best ways to make money in business. There are big lessons and small lessons in this one, so you may have to read some sections slow and skim through other sections that you aren’t as interested in. You can always refer to chapters again whenever they become relevant to you. It is important to note that there is information included that can help pretty much anyone that is interested in learning some of the tricks of the trade, so to speak. The real-life examples in this one is what make it interesting, so make sure that you pay attention to those. Even if you don’t own your own business, there are still details in here that you will find thought-provoking, including some information about the banking system and how it works. Moreover, this can be beneficial if you desire to own a business one day.

Go Do Deals: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Buying & Selling Businesses by Jeremy Harbour details a new way of looking at businesses which allows a person to gain more while putting less on the line. Traditionally, their are two ways to get into having your own business. Th first way is to start from the bottom and work your way up, starting the entire thing from the ground on your own. This requires lots of money and takes years before the owner is able to see any sort of profit for all of the hard work they are putting in. The second way is to buy a business that has already been started, thus skipping all the upfront work but still requiring a large payout to the previous owner and then taking on any and all risks that had been acquired in the process. What this book does is look closely at this second approach, but also offer different strategies that can be used to keep the risks under control and cut down on how much money the buyer needs to bring to the table throughout the process. The author does this by taking us through his own experiences in business acquisition so that we can see how he became so successful and the lessons he learned along the way.The author has done an excellent job of putting together an easy follow read that shows the reader all the steps and strategies needed in order to successfully acquire a business. The book is organized nicely and any technical jargon is explained in a way that allows the reader to learn quickly. I think that anyone who is interested ins tarting a business or in trying to buy an established business will benefit from this read.