Eighty20 Publishing · Business / Mergers & Acquisitions
The Owner’s Edge
How Middle-Market Owners Buy Right, Get Great Value, and Sell for More
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The owner's playbook for buying a company and making it pay: buy right, get great value and sell for more, shown through one deal between two owners.
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About the book
About The Owner’s Edge
Private equity buys companies for a living. Most owners don’t. Yet an owner who already runs a good company has an edge no fund can buy: knowledge of the work, people who can make the improvements, and no fund’s clock running.
The Owner’s Edge gives owners and founders of lower-middle-market and middle-market companies the professional’s process, built for someone with a company to run.
Buy right: set a walk-away number before you meet a seller, and use decision gates to stop the wrong deals early.
Get great value: design integration before closing and make the first hundred days count.
Sell for more: build a company a buyer could take over on any Monday, with terms you have considered before a banker names a number.
One deal between two owners runs through every chapter, with every number shown. Use the companion Field Guide to apply the process to your own company.
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Where it fits · PGOS
06 Value
Run the company someone will pay a premium for.
“How do I get paid for what I built?” Year three
How to use it
Start before the first target. Set your mandate and walk-away number, work the decision gates, and plan integration before closing. Use the Field Guide through diligence, the first hundred days and exit readiness.
Read it with Always Be Exiting
See Value in the PGOS mapEditions
Formats and ISBNs
- PaperbackRetail list: US $19.99 · CA $26.99Print forthcoming · November 24, 2026ISBN 9798908160407
- EbookDirect download: US $10 · Retail list: CA $16.99Available digitally · October 12, 2026ISBN 9798908160438
- Hardcover, caseboundRetail list: US $30.00 · CA $39.99Print forthcoming · November 24, 2026ISBN 9798908160414
- Hardcover, dust jacketRetail list: US $30.00 · CA $39.99Print forthcoming · November 24, 2026ISBN 9798908160421
- AudiobookDirect download: US $10ISBN 9798908160445
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The companion
The Field Guide
The Owner’s Edge · The Field Guide
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Thirty-nine worksheets help you work through the acquisition mandate, diligence, valuation, integration and exit readiness, with completed examples from Corrigan Instrument Services beside space for your own work.
- Paperback, letterRetail list: US $29.99 · CA $39.99Print forthcoming · November 24, 2026ISBN 9798908160452
- Fillable PDFDirect download: US $10Available digitally · October 12, 2026ISBN 9798908160476
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The author
Bill Canady
Bill Canady is Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products, Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies, and the Founder & CEO of The 80/20 Institute. A U.S. Navy veteran with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS) and has driven more than $3 billion in shareholder value across global industrial markets. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The 80/20 CEO and The Rule of Three.
