Awakening to Entrepreneurship to Buy a Not-Boring Business

Acquiring Minds

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When Shell Zhang recognized her own tolerance for risk she stepped off a linear path to buy a $600k SDE travel business.

Topics in Shell’s interview:

  • Buying a group tour business
  • Overcoming key-person risk
  • Going from a regional company to a national company
  • Avoiding “boring businesses”
  • Paying over asking price for the business
  • Why payment processors consider her business “high risk”
  • Starting from zero with online marketing
  • What her clients love about the business
  • Possible areas for growth
  • Her goal of redoing the website

References and how to contact Shell:

  • LinkedIn
  • Nada’s Italy

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