Acquiring Minds
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Episode 115
Season 1
Buying Franchises: A Primer for Searchers
Twitter-famous Wolf of Franchises on why & how you should buy existing franchise businesses, including lots of examples.
Themes from the conversation with Wolf:
- Pros/cons of acquiring an existing franchise business
- Why buy 1 franchise business (even if SDE is just $100k)
- Opportunity & perils of rolling up franchises
- If you can grow from 1 to 2 locations, magic
- How to assess health of a franchise brand
- Breaking into mature franchises as an acquisition entrepreneur
- 4 mature franchise brands Wolf likes (plus 1 he hates)
- Why to avoid food franchises
- How to gauge risk of new franchise brands
- Avoid these 2 common mistakes made by franchisees
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