Acquisitions

This book as an amazingly helpful guide. Filled with practical, real world experience, it provided signficant insight into the "real" process of selling a business. As a management consulting I occasionally encounter M&A deals. This book is the kind of resource that I need, and can recommend to my clients.

Great resource! Add it to your library!

After reading this book, I now have a clear understanding as to the steps involved in selling a company - it is far more complex than I imagined.

A "blue collar" book for gaining a negotiating advantage. From reading financials to closing strategies . . . this twenty dollar book saved me thousands. If your buying a business . . . or selling one . . . you'd be a fool not to invest in this one.

While this text does a fine job of explaining basic corporations law, it turns abysmal when one actually begins to study the M&A portions of the book. The author has used berevity as a substitute for explanation and thus it is advisable that a reader have an extensive background in corporate tax, antitrust law, securities regulation and all other constitutant areas of law before cracking the spine on this textbook. One cannot learn from this book so it is advisable to steer clear of it and opt instead for a text which takes the time to explain what it is saying rather than putting the word to the page in an incomprehensiable manner.

I find the book to be a comprehensive and complete look at the issues involving corporate mergers and acquisitions.

This is not everything you need to know to buy a business, it's not even close. This is a bird's-eye view of buying a business. I would recommend Yegge's books over this one. There you will learn not only the process, but also valuation techniques.

This book is alarmingly well-organized, well-written and helpful. It's so thorough you'll feel like you paid the highest paid consultant a fortune to learn this stuff! What a help this book is to every one thinking of buying a business. Congratulations on an exemplary book, Mr. Smorenburg. I know it has helped me.

Having read a lot of business books that try too hard to impress, I found this book conveyed a complex subject in such a simple way that I felt like throwing in my day job come Monday. I am planning to become an entrepreneur in the near future, and now feel 100% more prepared to face the risks.

Even if you're planning to start a business from scratch, I'd highly recommend that you first get your hands on a copy. The author really paints a powerful picture in favor of acquisition and teaches you how you can instantly have a positive cashflow.

Also, where most similar titles gloss over how you should find a business to buy, I can see that the strategy Mr. Smorenburg has developed to match your aptitude to the marketplace makes all the sense in the world and is bound to save you tens of thousands of dollars.

Even if you don't read the book and only use the 300-question checklist at the back, the book is worth ten times its cover price. But don't just stop there, I can highly recommend giving it a read from cover to cover and passing it on to people you like and care about. This is a handbook that offers practical experience in a simple and easy to read format.

I really could not recommend it more highly. Excellent, excellent, excellent. I was very impressed - clearly an author with heaps of experience in the real world.