Entrepreneurship without a start-up: Why buying is often the smarter way

Anyone who buys rather than builds their own home is making a rational decision – for good reason. The same logic applies to entrepreneurship: founding is building, succession or MBI (management buy-in) is buying. While start-ups are associated with high costs, a long duration and unclear risks, buying a company offers an existing foundation, functioning structures and transparency regarding potential.

Experienced managers have long been acting this way in their private lives: stability before adventure, substance before vision, clarity before speculation. In a professional context, however, this option is often missing from the mindset – and the opportunities are historic: hundreds of thousands of companies are looking for successors, many entrepreneurial families want to hand over to suitable personalities, and mature managers strive for impact instead of rounds of applications.

The new guidelines of the Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberatungen (BDU) e. V., written by omegaconsulting Managing Director Jean-Claude Baumer and his fellow association board member Michael Hofnagel describes this path in a professional, strategic and structured manner.

Entrepreneurship without foundation. Succession without chance. Leadership without application.
For many, MBI is not just an option – it is the logical next step.

Click here to download the guide.

Jean-Claude Baumer and Michael Hofnagel also answer questions in an interview.