Buying your own business is the shortest route to realizing that dream-and often financially safer than starting from scratch. *Buying Your Own Business, 2nd Edition* is the essential reference to reaching your goal. This completely revised and updated guide offers more strategies and tips than ever. You’ll learn how to: * Identify business opportunities * Plan an acquisition strategy * Evaluate target businesses * Negotiate a fair arrangement * Close the deal Also included are completely new sections on how to: * Utilize online resources * Revitalize a sluggish company * Assess a company’s strengths and weaknesses * Prepare for tax season with up-to-date changes in tax laws. With more than twenty years of experience buying and selling businesses, **Russell Robb** provides the practical step-by-step advice you need to buy a business-and make it your own! **Russell Robb** is a twenty-year veteran in the mergers and acquisitions business, providing investment banking and corporate finance advisory services to a wide range of middle-market companies. He served as president of the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and as president of the 9,000-member Association for Corporate Growth International headquartered in Chicago. Robb is the author of *Streetwise(r) Selling Your Business* and the first edition of *Buying Your Own Business*. He is currently the managing director of Tully&Holland, Inc. He lives in Cambridge, MA.