Edition Zero of This Is Bizness!!!

Hey guys, I hope you’re having a great day:)

Welcome to edition zero of my newsletter, This Is Bizness. This Is Bizness will be a weekly newsletter every Sunday sharing my passion for buying and selling small businesses.

If you’re curious about the name: Inspired by one of my favorite memes ever 😍 Please do yourself a favor and watch the video below

Every week I will break down 5 unique small businesses. I'll give you a quick snapshot of their business model, financials, and discuss their overall potential. I'll also add ratings on their Growth & Scalability, Risk, Price to Value, Innovation &Tech; and explore growth strategies. I hope to add a deep dive with interviews with founders for 1/5 businesses every week!

This format is in its early stages so expect it to be constantly changing as I experiment with it. Feedback, especially bad, is extremely welcome 🙂

I will mainly be featuring businesses sourced from Acquire.com or Microns.io and encourage everyone to begin looking at businesses on them today!

So who is this for?

My main goal: Produce content I would enjoy reading.

This newsletter is designed for individuals interested in business and investing, with a focus on buying and selling small businesses.

With easy-to-digest information and insights, this newsletter will aim to be accessible to everyone who wants to learn about the world of small businesses.

Who am I and how can I help?

I‘m Dev Shah, originally from Mumbai, India, and now studying in California. I ran a successful college admissions consulting side hustle for 2 years and decided to invest the profits. Quickly realized investing in the stock market earning 10%/ year was not the speed or scale of growth I was looking for. Looking for alternative investments I realized there was no real option.

In comes Acquire.com (World’s #1 start-up marketplace with $500M+ Total acquisitions closed and 150,000+ registered buyers and sellers)

Acquire showed me a whole new world of small businesses that I had no idea existed! From developers selling pre-revenue projects to well-established businesses with owners looking to retire.

The best part? YOU DO NOT NEED A LOT OF MONEY. Most people don’t realize that you can seriously look at buying businesses with as little as a few thousand dollars. (I am looking at businesses primarily in the $5-$10k range)

Why should you care? You shouldn’t. The world has enough problems to care about…. But you want to make money so here we are :)

Still feeling overwhelmed and confused? That’s okay, we all are. Just stick with me for a bit and I promise to show you that you can really pull off acquiring a business!

Gonna be honest with you guys: I'm still exploring the world of small businesses and learning new things every day. You gotta learn to walk before you can run. So yeah, I might fall a few times, but that's cool cause you guys get front-row seats to my mistakes, and AHA moments. I'm all about keeping it real and giving you a straight-up view of what's going on- the good and bad. Let's get into the weeds together, and see where this journey takes us.

Check out my tweet below to answer why you should consider buying a business and an example to better illustrate what I am describing.

I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! If you found any of the content interesting. I've got a lot of exciting stuff in store for you in the coming weeks, including in-depth interviews with founders, and tons of insights into the small business world. I hope you'll join me for the ride and subscribe to This Is Bizness, so we can continue exploring the world of small businesses together.

Check out my twitter account @bestofacquire with daily small businesses content.

Would love to stay connected with you, please feel free to DM or email me!