Hey everyone, excited to join the community. I’m Florian, based in Arlington, VA. A little bit about me : Oxford MBA, former private equity associate, and currently a Principal PM at Amazon with extensive experience in operations. What I am looking for : I’m currently looking for a service business generating $300K to $600K in SDE within the DMV metro area. I’m specifically looking for companies with strong underlying demand but obvious operational bottlenecks where I can step in as an operator to streamline processes and scale. Where i need help : Finding Capital Partners How I Can Help the Group : Operations, financial modeling, deal evaluation, and tech enablement. I am always happy to pressure-test a deal or talk through operational due diligence with anyone who wants a second set of eyes. I also built a tool (AcquiPilot) to manage my own search process, happy to share more if useful.

Tell us three things: Tell me: 1. Search method (self-funded, traditional, sponsor, etc) 2. Your buy box (be specific so I can refer you stuff I see!) 3. Your biggest pain point in searching. What’s the one thing I (and this group) can help you fix I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first. 🔹 I'm Jed; an independent sponsor at Sunset Coast Partners focused exclusively on government contracting firms. 🔹 My buy box includes companies with a minimum 35% government contracted revenue (federal or state & local), $2M - $10M EBITDA, and preferably in aerospace, defense, precision manufacturing, or IT/cyber software. 🔹 My biggest pain point is raising capital in a GovCon environment where SBA affiliation rules prevent traditional capital. Simply put, the majority of acquisition money needs to come from me personally or a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) fund. That's it. It's simple and gives you data on who's joining, what they're searching for, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

⒈ Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here. ⒉ Start with the Pre-Program. Everything else builds on this. ⒊ Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. ⒋ Follow the 90-day Search Roadmap to build massive leverage in your search. ⒌ Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What's your biggest roadblock as a searcher?

Hello everyone! I am born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and I have been in family business since I was 14. I started working in the field of our famliy landscape construction company which we built up and sold in 2006. It was a 300 employee company with 7 divisions which we sold to PE so I have experience on the sell side due dilligence, contract negotions, and post sale transitions. We started a fire truck refurbishment company after that, working for federal, municipal, foreign governments and contractors which we sold in 2021 to a strategic buyer. This company had 70 employees. I am looking to get back into entrepenuership but without the 2 year struggle of starting something brand new. Looking forward to learning from all of you.

Stewart Guthrie from Reno, Nevada. M&A Advisor and Business Broker. USMC veteran, three time business owner (food & beverage wholesale/Residential Property Management/Business Brokerage) with my wife and business partner, Kathryn. The Liberty Group of Nevada was solely a main street business brokerage when we purchased it in 2021. Kathryn and I are pushing up to the "Lower Middle Market" though truthfully, most businesses that are the size of LMM, are still run as if they were a main street business (lots of add-backs, flat to non-existent management structure, etc.). We do business in both California and Nevada.