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Just Starting Out in Entrepreneurship
If you want to own your own business but are struggling to find an idea and frustrated with your lack of progress.
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Reduce Entrepreneurial Risk
Entrepreneurship is risky enough, why not take the path with the best success rate and create a margin of safety.
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No Innovative Idea
If you don’t have a start-up worthy idea to quit your job, but you know you want your own business.
Six Months to CEO was created to help entrepreneurs see there’s another way.
One proven to be more successful and have less risk than the traditional startup model.
Walker Deibel
Serial Entrepreneur and Author
Walker Deibel cofounded three startups and has acquired seven companies. He is the founder and Managing Partner of the holding company, Centra, as well as an advisor for online entrepreneurs. He holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis where he received the Declaration of Achievement in Entrepreneurship from the Skandalaris Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Walker is a Certified M&A Advisor and former SEC licensed stock broker. Walker has also produced almost a dozen films and had premieres at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festival. He is the author of Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, released in fall 2018 by Lioncrest Publishing.
In the Six Months To CEO program you’ll learn:
MODULE 1: Introduction to Acquisition Entrepreneurship
Learn what it is, what it isn’t and why it’s the shortest route to a successful business as an entrepreneur.
MODULE 2: Getting Started
Discover the first steps to take, important pre-work for the acquisition of a company and what to avoid at all costs.
MODULE 3: Profiling Your Perfect Company
Learn which companies are a good fit for acquisition entrepreneurship and which ones aren’t.
MODULE 4: The Search
The step by step process for finding the perfect company to acquire for your rise to CEO.
MODULE 5: Evaluation and Analysis
Key factors to consider in the process of acquiring a business and how to make sure you get the best value.
MODULE 6: The Seller
Learn how to approach the seller of a company to ensure the deal works in your favor.
MODULE 7: Acquisition Phase
The crucial components to buying a business and how to make sure everything goes smoothly.
MODULE 8: Then Build
Once you’ve acquired the business – now what? Learn the important first steps of growing your new business and seeing a return on your investment.
