{"id":157,"date":"2025-01-21T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:30:27","slug":"book-review-buy-then-build-how-acquisition-entrepreneurs-outsmart-the-startup-game-by-walker-deibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/21\/book-review-buy-then-build-how-acquisition-entrepreneurs-outsmart-the-startup-game-by-walker-deibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game by Walker Deibel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42591890-buy-then-build\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42591890-buy-then-build\">Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18574135.Walker_Deibel\">Walker Deibel<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/7212749999\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game by Walker Deibel offers a refreshing and curious alternate perspective on entrepreneurship, shifting the focus from starting businesses from scratch to acquiring and scaling existing ones. Walker presents a well-structured roadmap, walking readers through finding, evaluating, and successfully growing a business you didn\u2019t start but can make your own. I appreciated how approachable and actionable the advice felt, making the concept of acquisition entrepreneurship seem not only doable but incredibly practical. If you\u2019ve ever wondered if there\u2019s a smarter way to step into business ownership, this book provides a compelling argument to consider buying instead of building.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/42336618-firdaus-aris\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game by Walker Deibel offers a refreshing and curious alternate perspective on entrepreneurship, shifting the focus from starting businesses from scratch to acquiring and scaling existing ones. Walker presents a well-structured roadmap, walking readers through finding, evaluating, and successfully growing a business you didn\u2019t start but can make your own. I appreciated how approachable and actionable the advice felt, making the concept of acquisition entrepreneurship seem not only doable but incredibly practical. If you\u2019ve ever wondered if there\u2019s a smarter way to step into business ownership, this book provides a compelling argument to consider buying instead of building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}