My 15 Reasons To Buy a Business instead of Starting one are organized under the following headings:

Leverage Marketplace Position
Window of Opportunity
Proven Systems – Mature Infrastructure
Reduced Risk of Failure

NOTE: the book is also available at Borders, Barnes and Noble in the US and in Canada you can buy it at Chapters, Indigo across Canada and Audrey’s [...]

Should you use retirement funds to start or buy a business? According to a 2004 article at Entrepreneur Magazine you shouldn’t and the article makes some good points. In the USA there have been some changes to tax law to allow you to ‘borrow’ from your 401(k) account.
The keyword here is ‘borrow’ the money [...]

What motivated you to write a book about buying a business?
Baby boomers, are just now beginning to seriously consider retirement options as the oldest of them start to turn 59 (as of 2005). For baby boomer business owners’ greatest problem is to figure out a way to retire and extract the equity that has [...]

I was speaking to a reporter yesterday, he was interviewing me about my book, Tips and Traps When Buying a Business. I have to admit that I mishandled answering his question I was not prepared for the way he asked the question.
He said: “You speak about valuation but you do not provide hard facts [...]

Truth is you cannot convince any investor, bank or VC to provide financing for any business that is not viable or ill conceived.
Here is my own list of what to do to get the attention of a VC:

Format: At the early stage some VC’s will prefer to see a PowerPoint presentation. Some are accepting [...]

Do Your Own Investigation
Generally major malls, power centers or prime downtown locations will demand higher rent per square foot. Your real estate agent or mall management should be able to provide you with a wide variety of statistics. These could range from the average number of cars during peak hours to average daily [...]

Small business loans can be used for a variety of purposes. For example, a business loan can help you buy a business, start a new business, and expand your business. You will deal directly with the banks loan officers but make no mistake major small business loans are reviewed by loan committees. [...]