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Board Economics
Re: Would you rather start/grow a business from scratch or buy an existing business?
by
stomachgrowls
on 21/12/2023, 12:50:03 UTC
Starting a business from scratch causes dealing with many problems from the very beginning. Taking over an existing business comes with its advantages. What we need to pay attention to is why are they selling the business we are going to buy? If the answer to this is sufficient for you, then taking over is a logical thing to do.

Instead of doing many of the things necessary to ensure that the business makes a profit while trying to establish a business from scratch, when we take over a business, these necessary things are already provided. There are many details and you should consider every possibility before making this decision.
If you are a professional businessman, you will choose the option of taking over a business because you have analyzed strategies to grow the business bigger, but you must have large finances to buy a trademark and buy all the details from the previous business owner.

But I am not interested in taking over a business even though I have business skills and financial support, but I will start a new business to increase entrepreneurship to build a business to achieve success.
For those who choose to develop a business by buying a business, of course they must have large capital and good skills in managing a business and they must also know well whether the business they are buying is in a state of profit or loss. Starting a business from the first will certainly be very satisfying for us because the business idea is purely from us and it will be easy to run it because we have prepared everything from the start and I am sure we will easily be able to carry it out well and when we have achieved Success in the business we build is certainly very satisfying for us.
If you do have the capital and do really have that passion then it wont really be that a problem when buying up some business but somewhat you wont really be that so dumb on not to have that feasibility study
basing up on that old business that you are trying to buy or takeover. You cant really just that make yourself on throwing up some funds on random on which it is really just that normal that you would really be having that kind of study first before making such step because its not easy to waste up some money for some business which isnt fit into your knowledge and into your passion.

In choosing in between things then i would always recommend to build a business from scratch. Why? You do really know on where you have started and you would be able to have a good grasps
on the business that you are making or taking. Although success rate wont really be that an assured thing since we do know that when it comes to busines then there would really be
tons of factors on which you would really be needing to consider not really just that on capital. You would really be needing to be wise on every decisions you would make.