The Only Small Business M&A Education Platform
The only M&A education platform purpose-built for small business owners: Learn to win through exponential merger growth. For aspiring entrepreneurs, skip the idea phase and buy an already existing enterprise to kickstart your entrepreneurial journey.
About.
Merger Squared is a strategy education platform dedicated to driving exponential business growth for entrepreneurs and business owners.
How Merger Squared Started
How the Analyst Network started
Two of our key contributors are currently in the finance sector specializing in post-merger integrations and operations. When it came to small business mergers, we often needed to explain the business buying strategy from beginning to end to business owners. Additionally, we often wondered why the strategies used by larger companies to make tremendous amounts of value through exponential growth were not more popular among smaller businesses.
We began to notice we were billing a lot of hours for repetitive consulting. It was decided instead to module the consulting hours so we could save time.
To many, our investment banking contributors have what would be a unique work schedule: 100+ hour work weeks during deal diligence, and then followed by weeks where there are no deals at all.
After some re-working, we decided to release the consulting modules online as Merger Squared, and offer members the opportunity to be connected with our financial professional network of analysts with downtime for the completion or review of business analysis and financial modeling.
FAQs
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One of the many benefits of making a small business investment is the flexibility of cutting a deal. There are three main techniques we’ll talk about in the “Funding your Deal” section of the learning modules, many of which are focused on reducing or eliminating the upfront capital required for acquisition.
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ETA, or Entrepreneurship-Through-Acquisition, is the strategy of skipping the idea phase and going straight to business ownership by acquiring a business that you can then implement your operational and financial value-adds.
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We took the repetitive components of M&A education from our consulting practices, transition advisory associates, and investments firms- and packaged them up into easy to follow modules for the general public. After some updating, we are now offering the modules to the wider entrepreneurial community.
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The size of the business is a major factor. With the small businesses and total dedication to these strategies, 90 days is not unreasonable, and depending on the situation, things can move very quickly!
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Our contributing professionals work in many different sectors of the greater business buying community. We have come together to create Merger Squared and offer associated consulting services to help startup funds or investors get moving with these strategies.
Your Instructors
Lessons across four sections
Top-tier team of contributors
Wide array of experiences
Diverse industry knowledge
*Includes professionals from investment banking, private equity, and merger-experienced business owners
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