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  • Using Acquire Scout
    • Create your buyer profile and run your first search
    • Work your deals in the pipeline
    • Upload documents and read the diligence analysis
    • How the Scout Score works — and why it can move
    • Generate a Letter of Intent
  • Getting ready to buy
    • The stages of buying a small business
  • Evaluating a business
    • What is SDE, and how is it calculated?
    • SDE multiples: what sellers are actually asking
  • Due diligence
    • Which documents to request from a seller
  • Making an offer
    • The letter of intent: what it does, and what binds you
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Using Acquire Scout

How to run a search, work your pipeline, verify a seller's numbers, and put an offer together — in the tool.

  • Create your buyer profile and run your first search

    Set up the buyer profile that drives matching, then read your search results — what each score means and how to filter down to deals worth your time.

    7 min read

  • Work your deals in the pipeline

    Move deals through the stages of an acquisition, keep your notes and next steps in one place, and see at a glance which deals are going cold.

    6 min read

  • Upload documents and read the diligence analysis

    Which documents to ask a seller for, how to upload them, and how to read the analysis — verified SDE, add-back scrutiny, risk flags, and every figure cited to its source.

    10 min read

  • How the Scout Score works — and why it can move

    What the Scout Score measures, how a deal's price is compared against thousands of live listings, and why a score can shift slightly when the market moves.

    7 min read

  • Generate a Letter of Intent

    When you're ready to make an offer, what belongs in an LOI, how to generate and edit one, and what it does — and doesn't — commit you to.

    8 min read

Contents

  • Using Acquire Scout
    • Create your buyer profile and run your first search
    • Work your deals in the pipeline
    • Upload documents and read the diligence analysis
    • How the Scout Score works — and why it can move
    • Generate a Letter of Intent
  • Getting ready to buy
    • The stages of buying a small business
  • Evaluating a business
    • What is SDE, and how is it calculated?
    • SDE multiples: what sellers are actually asking
  • Due diligence
    • Which documents to request from a seller
  • Making an offer
    • The letter of intent: what it does, and what binds you
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