The Financing Trap That Kills Online Business Deals Before They Even Close with Ami Kassar
About this episode
Ami Kassar discusses the pitfalls of financing in online business acquisitions and what buyers need to consider before closing a deal.
A business can look profitable. The broker can call it “SBA pre-qualified.” The numbers can seem solid. And the deal can still be a disaster waiting to happen. Because financing doesn’t just help you buy a business. Structured badly, it can trap you in a deal that should never have closed in the first place. Ami Kassar has seen what happens when buyers get this wrong. One e-commerce acquisition he discusses was built around a single product. Just weeks after the transaction closed, a better product hit the market. The business was dead. And that’s only one version of the risk. Buyers jump into industries they’ve never operated in. They rely too heavily on one product, one supplier, or one sales channel. They treat lender pre-qualifications like guarantees. They rush because a seller wants to close fast. Or they take expensive “easy money” because speed feels more important than structure. That’s where deals get dangerous. In this episode, Jaryd sits down with Ami Kassar to unpack what buyers need to understand before taking on acquisition debt — from why SBA pre-qualifications may mean far less than you think, to what lenders…
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