Preserving your legacy for the long term
I am an entrepreneur and veteran seeking to buy and run one business.
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I am an entrepreneur and Navy veteran seeking to buy and run one business for the long term. As a submarine officer and nuclear engineer, I led and worked with high-performance teams to solve problems and achieve success in demanding environments. Now as an entrepreneur, I hope to apply many of the lessons I learned in the Navy to help a small business transition into its next phase of ownership and growth.
I have the support of investors with extensive experience in small business acquisitions and mentors with a long history of successful business operations to help me quickly close a transaction. If you are a business owner working on a succession plan, please reach out so we can talk.
- Quent Dickmann
Rick Ruback is a finance professor at Harvard Business School, specializing in the acquisition and operation of small and medium sized businesses. He has advised and invested in dozens of acquisition entrepreneurs, and is co-author of HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, a practical roadmap through the steps required to find, evaluate, and finance the acquisition of a smaller firm.
Royce Yudkoff is a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC, and finance professor at Harvard Business School. He has extensive experience in business acquisitions and has advised and invested in many small business acquisition entrepreneurs. He is co-author of HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, a practical roadmap through the steps required to find, evaluate, and finance the acquisition of a smaller firm.
Jim Sharpe is an acquisition entrepreneur with decades of experience operating business and advising entrepreneurs. He acquired Extrusion Technology, an aluminum extrusion fabricator, in 1987 and operated it for over 20 years. His blog, jimsteinsharpe.com, serves as an invaluable resource for business owners and acquisition entrepreneurs on the process of searching for, buying, and operating small businesses.
Blog: www.jimsteinsharpe.com