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Taking a Blue Collar Biz from $900k to $2.4m in Earnings

94 min • 12 februari 2024

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Adam Borcz bought & unlocked growth in a niche-y, 35-year-old blue collar business, almost tripling earnings in 4 years. 

Topics in Adam’s interview:

  • Adam’s experience working for a fundless sponsor
  • Pros & cons of having the federal government as a customer
  • Doubling his work force in a “tough labor market”
  • Why overhead doesn't need to scale with labor force
  • Doing nothing for the first six months as owner
  • Why he invests in traditional search funds
  • Personal risk and work involved in self-funded search
  • Being on the right side of the SBA loan
  • Tying profit sharing to gross profit
  • Adam's decision to hold the business indefinitely

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