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Oliver Buchannon
Roland Frasier

Scale

Buyers Grade You Out of 100

Jul 17, 2026

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3 min read

Buyers Grade You Out of 100

Your multiple isn't a negotiation. It's a score you can calculate before they do.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

Growth Is Hiding Your Worst Decisions

Jul 15, 2026

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3 min read

Growth Is Hiding Your Worst Decisions

Rising revenue doesn't prove your decisions are right. It just delays the bill.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
Meet Your Buyer Three Years Before You Sell

Jul 13, 2026

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5 min read

Meet Your Buyer Three Years Before You Sell

The process sets the ceiling. The relationships you built first set the floor.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
Recurring Revenue Isn't Predictable Revenue

Jul 10, 2026

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4 min read

Recurring Revenue Isn't Predictable Revenue

Buyers pay for predictability, not for the word subscription.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Scale

Rich Operator, Cheap Asset

Jul 6, 2026

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4 min read

Rich Operator, Cheap Asset

The moves that maximize what you take home are the ones that cap what a buyer will pay.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
Equity You Gave Away for Free

Jun 29, 2026

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4 min read

Equity You Gave Away for Free

A personal guarantee is uncapped downside you wrote for free, and it follows you out the door.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

Build It to Be Absorbed

Jun 26, 2026

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4 min read

Build It to Be Absorbed

The most valuable business isn't a fortress. It's one a buyer can absorb fast.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
Busy, Profitable, and Stuck

Jun 22, 2026

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5 min read

Busy, Profitable, and Stuck

Operators optimize profit per job. Owners allocate profit per constraint.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

+1

The Money Isn't in the Business. It's Around It.

Jun 19, 2026

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5 min read

The Money Isn't in the Business. It's Around It.

Your biggest gains aren't in operations. They're in the deals and the structure you keep ignoring.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

+1

You Already Earned This Money. You Just Didn't Collect It.

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

You Already Earned This Money. You Just Didn't Collect It.

The cheapest growth isn't new revenue. It's the profit and the customers you already paid for.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
You Pay the Founder Tax Twice

Jun 15, 2026

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5 min read

You Pay the Founder Tax Twice

Every decision that runs through you is a tax. You pay it twice.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
The Melting Ice Cube

Jun 12, 2026

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6 min read

The Melting Ice Cube

The moat you are about to buy, or sell, may be evaporating.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
The Roll-Up Math Just Broke

Jun 10, 2026

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7 min read

The Roll-Up Math Just Broke

The cheapest way to take a category is no longer to buy it.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
The One Number You Actually Control

Jun 8, 2026

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4 min read

The One Number You Actually Control

The one number you fully control is the one you treat as untouchable.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

You're Still Paying the Partner Who Quit

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

You're Still Paying the Partner Who Quit

Dead equity compounds at exactly the rate your business does

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

+1

The Product You're Proudest Of Might Be Your Least Profitable

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

The Product You're Proudest Of Might Be Your Least Profitable

Revenue tells you what they buy. Margin tells you what you keep.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Strategy

Free cash flow is optionality wearing a financial disguise.

May 27, 2026

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2 min read

Free cash flow is optionality wearing a financial disguise.

Cash on hand is the cheapest option you'll ever own.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
You delegated everything you hated...now what?

May 25, 2026

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3 min read

You delegated everything you hated...now what?

The hire you're avoiding is the one you need.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Scale

You hired the agency. An acquirer would've bought it.

May 22, 2026

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4 min read

You hired the agency. An acquirer would've bought it.

Operators rent capability. Acquirers own it.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
You priced your business on its own. The buyer priced it on their portfolio.

May 20, 2026

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2 min read

You priced your business on its own. The buyer priced it on their portfolio.

Stop shopping your multiple. Start shopping your fit.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
Inside The Mandate

May 18, 2026

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6 min read

Inside The Mandate

What actually happens in the seat your banker doesn't sit in.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Exit

The Clock Founders Don't See

May 15, 2026

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5 min read

The Clock Founders Don't See

By the time the LOI hits your desk, the deal is mostly decided.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Exit

Why Most Sellers Hire a Political Science Major to Negotiate the Biggest Deal of Their Life (Without Even Knowing It)

May 13, 2026

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8 min read

Why Most Sellers Hire a Political Science Major to Negotiate the Biggest Deal of Their Life (Without Even Knowing It)

Your M&A Attorney's Biggest Negotiation Was Their Last Car

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Exit

The One Advisor Most Sellers Don't Know to Hire Until It's Too Late

May 11, 2026

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6 min read

The One Advisor Most Sellers Don't Know to Hire Until It's Too Late

What you pay your banker to do and what determines the size of your closing wire are two different jobs.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier

Exit

You started exit prep too late

May 8, 2026

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3 min read

You started exit prep too late

The work happens 36 months out, not six.

Roland Frasier
Roland Frasier
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