Business Builders
Prepare to buy a business.
Turn your experience into a focused search, a clearer view of the deal and a plan for taking over.
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Business Builders · Acquisition preparation
Put your experience to work in a business you own.
We help experienced professionals prepare to buy an established business. Business Builders helps you decide what to buy, evaluate the deal and plan for the company you would take over.
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Cynerge Group helps experienced professionals prepare to buy and run a business.
Buying a business connects a lot of decisions. What fits your life? Do the numbers work? What will the company need from you once you own it?
Business Builders brings that work into one path. You turn your experience into buying criteria, work through the deal and build a plan for ownership.
Your path to ownership
Find the help that fits
where you are now.
Start with the decision to buy. Prepare for the work ahead. As an owner, connect business value to the life you want to build.
Freedom Point
Put a number on financial freedom.
Explore what a future business sale would need to provide to fund the life you want. Use the assessment built for a business you own.
Calculate your Freedom Point ↗Free playbook
Decide if ownership fits your life.
Build a one-page starting plan around your experience, the company that fits you and the money questions to answer first.
Get my free playbook ↗Value Builder
See what drives business value.
Look at the factors that make a company stronger and less tied to its owner. Assess a business you own to see where to focus.
Explore your business value ↗Inside Business Builders
Turn the idea of ownership
into decisions you can act on.
A listing is only part of the picture. Learn to connect the business, the deal and your role as its next owner.
Know what fits.
Judge an opportunity against your experience, budget and the work you want to do. Give yourself a clear reason to look closer or move on.
Understand what you would agree to.
See how the price, funding and deal terms work together. Know which questions to bring to your lender, accountant and attorney.
Look beyond closing day.
Think through the people, cash and systems you would take over. Make the responsibility of running the company part of the buying decision.
The work you create
Practice the work before a live deal.
Work through buying decisions before real money and a real company are on the line. Business Builders combines lessons with hands-on exercises.
Step 01 · Define your criteria
Know the business you want to buy.
Connect your experience, budget and goals to the kind of company you can see yourself running. Set your boundaries before looking at listings.
Your work: a personal Buy Box with your buying criteria.
Step 02 · Prepare your conversations
Explain what you bring as a buyer.
Prepare what to say to brokers and bankers. Describe your search clearly and work out which questions you need answered next.
Your work: broker and banker conversation scripts.
Step 03 · Inside the deal
Work through the numbers and terms.
Practice valuation, deal review and purchase terms. Build the questions you need answered before committing.
Your work: a capital plan and deal-review exercises.
Step 04 · Before you take over
Plan for your first days as owner.
Map how the business would run under your leadership. Think through cash needs, team responsibilities and the changes that can wait.
Your work: an acquisition business plan, a three-year financial forecast and first-100-days priorities.
Is Business Builders for you?
Buying a business is a serious move. Be honest about the work you are ready to take on.
This is for you if:
- You have experience leading people, solving problems or running part of a business.
- You are serious about buying an established company.
- You will make time to prepare, study the numbers and ask hard questions.
- You are ready to take responsibility for the people and work that come with ownership.
This is not for you if:
- You expect passive income from day one.
- You want someone else to find, buy and run the business for you.
- You are looking for a guaranteed deal or a shortcut around the financial risks.
- You want the title of owner without the responsibility of leading a company.
Still deciding whether ownership fits your life? Start with the free playbook.
Meet Alonzo Williams
He has been the buyer
and the operator.
Alonzo bought an SAP division in 2010 and ran it for approximately 11 years before exiting. His background spans nearly 30 years in enterprise software and ERP, and he has taught since 2005.
That experience shapes Business Builders: understand what you are buying and prepare for the company you will have to run.
Meet Alonzo ↗Your next step
Apply to Business Builders.
Tell us about your experience, what you want to buy and where you need help with the purchase.