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Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Through Acquisition ETA 

May 29, 2024 By Bryan Coe

I have been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. Back in junior high school, I used to buy Now&Laters and resell them to other kids in school. I don’t recommend this since they were not allowed in school. But it did make for good margins. Haha. I also had a DJ business in high school and college. There were other businesses along the way, too.

In my adult life, I started Blackbird e-Solutions LLC a marketing agency. Then in the past few years, I started a soccer-related business that helps inexperienced, volunteer, and parent youth soccer coaches: The Soccer Handbook. We provide full-season coaching plans for youth soccer teams backed by licensed coaches. 

Most of my business experience has been with startups. Startups can be very powerful as well as very challenging. When you start a business from scratch, you must:

• Take an idea and make it a reality. 
• Find product market fit.
• Build sales.
• Find a process that works for many different parts of the business. 

I’ve done this and, well… I am still doing it. It is always a work in progress. 

I have also managed marketing and growth strategies for clients in many verticals with my agency.

In the last few years, I have also toyed around with the idea of working with investors to acquire online businesses where I would be the operator. At some point along the way, I discovered the ETA community. Entrepreneur Through Acquisition 

The basic concept of ETA is to enter the world of entrepreneurship by acquiring an existing business. While I’m not becoming an entrepreneur by buying a business, I am applying the concept to level up my entrepreneurial career.

The thing is, with startups, you have a long time that you have to slog through to get traction and become successful. If you are able to acquire something that has already made it through some of that slog, you can then grow it into something greater.

I'm looking to looking to acquire businesses in the soccer industry. This could be e-commerce, soccer brands, media companies, soccer tech, etc.

It is definitely going to be a journey. I hope to share my journey along the way so others can learn, too.

If you want to follow along, make sure you follow me. And if you are looking to sell a soccer business. Drop me a DM.

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