{"product_id":"founder-to-acquirer-how-to-buy-integrate-and-grow-businesses-using-the-1-bestselling-good-to-growing-framework-ebook","title":"Founder to Acquirer: How to Buy, Integrate, and Grow Businesses Using the #1 Bestselling Good to Growing Framework - eBook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe deal is done. The wire has cleared. And somewhere behind the handshake, a single question forms: now what? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot strategically — you have a thesis, and it's sound. Operationally. You're about to fold a business you don't yet understand, run by people who don't yet trust you, into the company you spent years building — without breaking either one. And you've watched enough acquisitions to know the truth no term sheet admits:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost acquisitions don't fail at the negotiating table. They fail in the first ninety days.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFounder to Acquirer\u003c\/i\u003e, Scott Winters makes a case that will change how you see every deal you ever consider: acquisition is not a financial strategy. It's an organizational one. The operational chaos, the culture clashes, the margin compression that most books treat as the unavoidable price of buying a company are none of those things. They are predictable. And everything predictable is preventable — if you do the specific work \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e the letter of intent is ever signed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for founders of established businesses — companies doing $5 million to $100 million in revenue — whether you're weighing your first acquisition, building a system after a deal or two, or trying to understand why the acquisitions you've watched fell apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you'll learn:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy founder-to-founder acquisitions fail for a different, more preventable reason than big-company deals — and the honest assessment that reveals whether \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c\/i\u003e organization is actually ready to buy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe three failure modes that quietly sink most deals — operational chaos, culture erosion, and margin compression — and the exact mechanism behind each, so you can see it coming a mile away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat to build \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e you go hunting for a target, instead of scrambling to build it mid-integration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to run the first ninety days after close so both businesses grow stronger — rather than splitting a stretched team in two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA repeatable operating system that turns one nerve-wracking acquisition into an engine that makes every future deal better than the last\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost acquisition books stop at finding and financing the deal. \u003ci\u003eFounder to Acquirer\u003c\/i\u003e begins where they end. Built on the proven Good to Growing framework, it applies one disciplined method — Evaluation, Weakness Resolution, Business Modeling, Scaling, and Execution — across the entire acquisition lifecycle: before the deal, through integration, and long after the champagne is gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is the outcome most acquisitions never reach: \u003cb\u003egrowth without chaos.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you're going to buy a business, buy it with your eyes open and your own house in order. Your next acquisition — and the one after that — starts here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cke-filler-webkit=\"end\" data-cke-temp=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bookfunnel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48428810174625,"sku":"9798952038028","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0763\/7555\/6257\/files\/G2G_Acquire_26_0614a.jpg?v=1793129004","url":"https:\/\/shop.goodtogrowing.com\/products\/founder-to-acquirer-how-to-buy-integrate-and-grow-businesses-using-the-1-bestselling-good-to-growing-framework-ebook","provider":"Good to Growing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}