Walker Deibel is an acquisition entrepreneur who has co-founded three startups and acquired seven companies. Walker is passionate about helping entrepreneurs avoid the startup killers through buying an existing company rather than starting from scratch. His new book, "Buy Then Build," is your guide to outsmart the startup game, live the entrepreneurial lifestyle and reap the financial rewards of ownership now.

Acquisition entrepreneurs apply their business-building smarts not to a fresh startup, but to buying and growing existing