Operator playbooks

    Step-by-step guides

    Detailed playbooks to take you from concept to close. Written by operators, for operators buying businesses and real estate.

    Pillar guide25 min read

    How to Buy a Business: The Complete Acquisition Playbook

    Skip the motivational podcasts. This is the tactical playbook for acquiring companies with structure, leverage, and legal engineering.

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    Pillar guide30 min read

    How to Raise Capital: The Definitive Guide for Fund Managers

    The systems-level playbook for raising capital, covering legal structure, investor psychology, and the mechanics that actually close checks.

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    Ultimate guide20 min read

    The Complete Guide to Starting a Private Equity Firm

    Everything you need to know about launching your own PE firm, from legal structure to raising your first fund.

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    Strategy15 min read

    How to Buy Apartments with Other People’s Money

    A step-by-step strategy for acquiring multifamily real estate using syndication and investor capital.

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    Compliance10 min read

    SEC Regulation Cheat Sheet

    Navigate securities regulations with this easy-to-understand cheat sheet for Reg D, 506(b), and 506(c).

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    Interactive tool5-10 min assessment

    Business Personality Test: What Type of Owner Are You?

    Discover which business types match your personality. Based on the Big Five framework used by Fortune 500 companies.

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    Raising to buy?

    Reading is step one. Structure is step two.

    When you are ready, we build the raise itself: entity, legal documents, financial model, data room, and investor introductions.