14 Months from Searcher to $5.5m EBITDA

Luis Aguilar found a $1.5m SDE commercial laundry business on BizBuySell, then a second acquisition followed quickly.

Topics in Luis’s interview:

• Geographical search in Florida
• Working with SIG (Search Investment Group) to raise capital
• Pitching investors and overcoming rejection
• Negotiating a dead deal back to life
• Acquiring a linen rental business
• Second order effects of raising employee wages
• Learning all the jobs in the business
• Mental weight of being the chief decision maker
• Doing a second big acquisition in the first year
• Increasing profit in both businesses

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