Rotational Program (ETA Track)

Taking the leap into buying a small business can be tough and scary. It often feels like the wild west. I am looking for a driven individual who wants to get into entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA).

We have built a successful holdco that owns and operates multiple businesses, and we want to pass that knowledge along and grow talent internally over a one-year contract. This rotational program will teach you how a small business operates, markets, grows, dies, and everything in between. We teach you how to break down any business into people and process by showing you.

You would do the work and be on site for a period of time at each business, which lets you form your own ideas on how to run it better, plan, execute, and iterate. We do not plan and then hand off to another team. The entire lifecycle is owned by you.

We will also walk you through the entire playbook of buying a business, from sourcing to diligence to deal structuring. By the end of the year you will be fully versed in the world of small business acquisition.

The ideal candidate

Driven, a self starter, with real business acumen, and kind. That last one goes much further than you would think. Someone willing to get their hands dirty and do the work, not just make PowerPoints and build Excel sheets to add shareholder value.

This is not Goldman or McKinsey or a hot, sexy AI startup. We focus on small, real, profit driven, long tenured business, which is hot and sexy to me.

We buy small businesses from owners who are ready to retire, and then hold onto them. There is no fund behind us, no clock, and nobody we are planning to sell to. When we buy one the name over the door stays the same and so does the crew, and the customers generally never find out anything changed.

Every business breaks down to people and processes. We are not masters of any one service or industry, but we are highly capable problem solvers at building the best processes and matching the perfect individuals.