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If you are serious about building real wealth and autonomy in 2025, your fastest path can be a family business on the street.
Over the next decade, millions of small companies – a real American economy engine – will go to a recent property. But this variation will not play in public markets or by loud transaction offers. This will occur in a quiet, negotiated transaction between retireing owners and the next generation of hard -working entrepreneurs.
The numbers prove how big this chance is:
- 70% of small business owners have no formal succession plansDespite almost the third output planning In Five years.
- 26% accelerated their transition plansSignaling the growing diligence to search out appropriate buyers from retirement, forces their hand.
- 43% of the owners prioritize the heritage and continuity of the sale price – Which implies that they will look for buyers who will protect employees, keep social relations and run companies that spent a long time at the construction site.
In short, management now has the same as capital.
This data was collected in my company 2025 State of Main Street ReportWhat describes in detail how intelligent entrepreneurs use this market in their favor.
By buying established operations with existing revenues, customer loyalty and good will of the community, many buyers skip the phase of rocky startups and enters profitable positions in the most trusted American sector.
Growth of a acquisition entrepreneur
Over the years, entrepreneurship was synonymous with the invention, collecting increased risk capital, racing scale and pursuit of results price a billion dollars. This model will persist, but the next paradigm will gain momentum: street important entrepreneurship.
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Buying an existing company enables entrepreneurs to go beyond the unpredictable incubation from 0 to 1, early startups and more stable, but still difficult work related to scaling from 1 to 10.
It’s nice that the interest in the important street accelerates in different sectors.
- Highly qualified technology creators They are increasingly moving to Main Street, using modern tools, resembling artificial intelligence to older industries.
- Knowledge about creating transactionsWhen the domain of private equity and family offices is currently democratized through online communities, educational platforms and public discourse, including ours.
- Media narratives are changing From praising the unprofitable hypergrowth to the celebration of sustainable, profitable property.
We enter the era in which words resembling “cash flows”, “takeover” and “profitability” are once again markers of ambition and pride, not little considering.
New textbook for entrepreneurs
The next generation of entrepreneurs will not be defined solely by their ability to invent, but by their ability to have correctly possess, act and responsible management.
For those that need to go beyond conventional startup mythology, property is not only aspiration. This is discipline. What is happening on Main Street, and more importantly, what exactly people do with it?
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These are questions 2025 State of Main Street Report leave to reply. This is a look at the state of important entrepreneurship from our unique perspective, shaped by a diverse mixture of votes: company owners, bankers, decision -makers, teachers, startup founders, painters, window cleaners and many others. It’s each macro and micro. Data and narrative. Strategy and sweat. Inside you will find:
- Data on the purchase of small businesses: Key trends, financial observations and real data from our business buying community.
- Company owner: Stories from members of our community who actively buy, build and scale small companies.
- Blue boom: Observations of operators and founders from trade, studying what works, where opportunities appear and how industries evolve.
- Technology of the important street: Look at some startups in our Venture portfolio, which modernize the way small companies operate.
Our goal is easy – that somewhere on the pages of this report you will find something that moves you. The story that resonates. The path you have never seen before. A tool you need to use. We cannot wait for you to read it.
If you are serious about building real wealth and autonomy in 2025, your fastest path can be a family business on the street.
Over the next decade, millions of small companies – a real American economy engine – will go to a recent property. But this variation will not play in public markets or by loud transaction offers. This will occur in a quiet, negotiated transaction between retireing owners and the next generation of hard -working entrepreneurs.
The numbers prove how big this chance is:
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