Buy, Run, Build - A Guide to Entrepreneurialism Through Acquisition

A detailed examination of how entrepreneurs can often have more success - financial and operational - with buying an established, growing company, rather than creating a start-up from nothing.

List of contents

Introduction - why buying up is better than starting up
1. What do you really want to do?
2. Checking out a business
3. Buying and selling a business
4. The money
5. Being the CEO
6. Dealing with the board
7. The business of management
8. People and pay
9. The tough side of people management
10. What to do when it all goes wrong

About the author

Charles Skinner is an industry specialist in ETA. As CEO, he took one company worth � and built it into a business which sold for �0m. With another company he ran, the share price went up 40-fold and the business is now worth �0m and was AIM company of the year. Charles is an adviser to an ETA search fund, Mentmore Associates, and he currently chairs five private companies. In addition to this, Charles was editor of the magazine, Management Today.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Skinner, Charles Skinner
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.01.2026
• EAN: 9781399427128
• ISBN: 978-1-3994-2712-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / New Business Enterprises, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Acquisition Entrepreneurship