An entrepreneur who has made 79 acquisitions explains 4 things every startup founder must know about

The real payoff for an acquisition strategy comes with scale—when you’ve acquired enough companies and revenue to benefit from the efficiencies the platform company can provide. How you brand acquired companies will be critical to your ultimate success. When evaluating acquisitions, it’s important to look beyond the performance and potential of the company for hard assets that can be used as part of the acquirers financing and tax strategies. As CEO, running an acquisition-based startup...