How to Buy Good Businesses & Keep Bad Ones Out with Elliott Holland
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Elliott a Harvard Business School alum & OG in the small business acquisition space. Elliott helps self-funded, 1st time buyers, do two very important things: (1) execute excellent small business acquisitions and (2) kick bad deals out quickly saving time and money. He provides an audit-like product called a Quality of Earnings (QoE) to verify the numbers for the messy & unaudited financials of the typical small business. He also provides advisory services for all phases of a search.
Elliott's 15 years in small business acquisitions as a buyer and now advisor sets him apart from any other consultant in the space & he leverages those skills to help people execute great deals with confidence.
Elliott began his career in private equity with the Watermill Group in Boston, MA. He subsequently started two private equity firms of his own. Prior to this, Elliott worked at Accenture’s Strategy Practice where he advised Fortune 500 companies on strategic and operational issues in order to increase efficiency and drive profit improvements.
Elliott is a graduate of Harvard Business School. Before that, he matriculated through the dual-degree engineering program between Morehouse College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was a member of the Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.
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