Hey, it’s Ben!
Over the last few days, I’ve covered the first priorities after closing:
- Locking in your key employees
- Establishing vendor relationships
- And building the operating rhythm that makes the business sustainable
Today I want to warn you about the other side:
An instinct that derails more new owners than almost anything else in that first month.
Zachary closed on a $4.5M medical practice with 100% financing after joining Acquisition Ace.
“Through every step of the process Ben was very responsive when I was looking at deals that didn’t end up working out and then this deal that we both really liked… he was super helpful and provided a lot of guidance that I really needed. It really wouldn’t have turned out as well as it did without all your help.”
Zachary got hands-on guidance through diligence, negotiations, and structuring, and ended up making a great deal.
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The urge to change things immediately
You just spent months evaluating this business, going through due diligence, meeting the team, and walking through the operations.
Then you start to have ideas and get excited by things that could be better.
That’s all completely normal.
AND… the impulse to act on it immediately is one of the most costly mistakes a new owner can make.
The employees who’ve been with the business for years know things you don’t.
Processes that look inefficient from the outside often exist for a reason that takes time to fully understand.
And changes made before you’ve built trust with the team tend to generate resistance that makes everything harder.
(Inside Acquisition Ace, members learn how to approach the post-close transition in a way that preserves what made the business worth buying in the first place. To see how our community can help you acquire your first business, book a call with our team here.)
The 90-day rule
The standard I’ve seen work consistently: don’t make major changes in the first 90 days.
That means observing carefully, asking a lot of questions, and building the relationships that will make change easier when the time comes.
Write down everything you want to improve, and by day 90, you’ll have a much clearer picture of which of those ideas still make sense…
And which ones were based on incomplete information.
What the first 30 days are actually for
Stability, learning, and building relationships.
Your goal is not to fix everything at once.
The businesses that transition well are the ones where new owners spend the first month listening more than talking, and where the team comes out of that period feeling more secure than they did going in.
Get the first 30 days right, and you inherit a business that’s positioned to grow.
If you’d like help thinking through how to approach a transition period you’re heading into, the Acquisition Ace community is where that kind of practical guidance lives.
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