Original source · Yusufa Sey
Watch me try to buy a business (LIVE deal breakdown)
Topics supported by this collection: acquisition process, target selection, sourcing, ebitda, adjusted ebitda. Use the linked evidence and contextual notes to distinguish examples, opinions and reported experience.
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- The acquisition process
- Adjusted EBITDA
- Asset-based lending
- Bank debt
- Brokers
- Capital stack
- Cash flow
- Collateral
- EBITDA
- Enterprise value
- Investor equity
- Leverage
- Letter of intent
- Management after acquisition
- Private credit
- Receivables finance
- Returns and exits
- Roll-ups
- Seller financing
- Sourcing
- Target selection
- Valuation multiples
- Working capital
Used in the course
Choose a target you can understand and own
Balance business quality, management needs, price and financing fit.
Earnings are the starting point; cash pays the bills
Distinguish reported profit, adjusted earnings and money available for obligations.
Understand what private credit does—and what the evidence shows
Separate nonbank lending, institutional investment conversations and actual committed facilities.
Working capital must survive the acquisition
Read the balance sheet for operating needs, eligible assets and existing claims.
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