How To Avoid Dumb Deals When Buying And Selling Small Or Medium Size Businesses

Mark Podolsky
2 min readDec 9, 2023

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Our guest for today is David Barnett, a lifelong entrepreneurial geek who helps people all over the world avoid dumb deals when buying or selling small or medium-sized businesses.

David is a business consultant, small and medium-sized business expert, fantastic advisor, and appraiser who sold three dozen companies being a business broker.

Listen in as they discuss:

  • The definition of small or medium-sized business.
  • What is a dumb deal?
  • What’s a good deal?
  • Franchising.
  • Attributes of a perfect business.
  • The “Mandela Effect” in buying a business.

They also discussed some of the worst advice people can get in the world of buying and selling businesses.

TIP OF THE WEEK

David: Getting 7 and a half hours of sleep every day.

Mark: My tip of the week is investlocalbook.com to learn more about David. Check out his podcast, YouTube channel, his books.

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Mark Podolsky

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