For decades, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were seen as the playground of Wall Street bankers and Fortune 500 CEOs — deals worth billions, conducted in glass towers, with teams of lawyers and investment bankers running the show. If you were a founder, a small business owner or an entrepreneur bootstrapping your way to growth, M&A felt like something far out of reach.

That's no longer the case. The landscape has shifted dramatically in the past decade. Technology, private capital and changing business models have opened the doors for entrepreneurs of all sizes to use M&A as a growth strategy .

Whether you're a $2 million ecommerce brand, a local service provider or a SaaS startup still under $5 million ARR, acquisition is no longer off-limits. In fact, it may be one of the smartest s

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