Acquiring Minds
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Episode 134
Season 1
Navigating Failure: Buying a $5m+ Business that Collapses
John Ikalowych shares his traumatic journey of going all-in to buy a hail-repair business, then having to shut it down.
Topics in John Ikalowych’s interview:
- John’s background in commercial banking
- Buying a car hail repair business
- Losing half his staff just months after acquisition
- The disaster that tanked their finances
- Pivoting from B2C to B2B
- Shutting down the business
- How the business failure changed him
- Closing a business with a personal guarantee
- John’s advice to searchers
- The importance of peer support
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