Acquiring Minds: How to Buy a Business with a Partner | Jeff Evenson Interview

Acquiring Minds: How to Buy a Business with a Partner | Jeff Evenson Interview

Jeff Evenson has been through 2 partnerships that involved buying a business, and he has the scars to prove it. In 2008, Jeff Evenson and his wife acquired a large salon doing $3.5m, then he and a friend acquired a $12m precision machine shop in 2018. Both of those partnerships did not end well, and these days Jeff is vocal that acquisition entrepreneurs be extremely careful & prudent when it comes to buying a business alongside a partner. He has a few rules, informed by a few underlying philosophies, all of which he shares in this interview.