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Knowledge for ANZ, written from experience.
Notes on buying, running and growing Australian businesses, from those who’ve been on the ground.
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Two calculators for a business purchase.
Start from the capital you could put in, or from a deal you’re looking at. See how much a lender might fund, what it could cost each month, and how the deal reads to a lender.
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Founder essays
Long-form essays on deal sourcing, AI and roll-ups.
Deal sourcing playbook
A practical playbook on finding and approaching owners before a business is ever listed for sale.
Ask me Anything with Pete, August 2026
The August session covered valuation gaps between vendor expectation and lender appetite, the two questions Pete asks every searcher before backing them, and what he watches in the first hundred days of an acquisition he has funded.
The acquisition playbook library
Search-phase sourcing cadence, the diligence checklist that orders the data room, vendor-finance structuring options with worked numbers, and the completion-week runbook used across member deals.
Deal templates, ready to adapt
The mutual NDA, the indicative offer letter, the exclusivity term sheet, the working-capital adjustment schedule and the completion checklist, each annotated with where the negotiation actually happens.
Every Forum recording, all five years
Every main-stage session, masterclass and panel from five Forums, indexed by topic and speaker, including the sessions that were never published anywhere public.
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