Guide · Operations

Taking over a business?The first 100 days.

You have the financing, the business and the drive to modernize. Here is how to do it without losing the team, the customers or the seller’s knowledge.

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Key points6 min
  1. The first 30 days are for understanding, not changing.
  2. The priority: capture the seller’s knowledge while they are still there.
  3. Recover every access: domain, email, software.
  4. The first changes should make the team’s life easier.

The problem

The seller leaves in three months. They are the only one who knows the website password, the pricing logic and the big customers’ habits. The team is watching you, worried. Change everything too fast and you lose their trust; wait too long and the knowledge leaves with the seller.

The solution

  1. Days 1 to 30: understandShadow every role, map the processes, list the tools and accesses.
  2. Days 31 to 60: secureTransfer the accounts, record the seller’s knowledge, back up the data.
  3. Days 61 to 100: lightenTwo or three improvements the team asks for, measured.
  • Domain name and website
  • Microsoft or Google accounts
  • Accounting software and its access
  • Google profile and social media
  • Business software and licences
  • Backups: where they are, and who checks them

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  1. Technology reviewTools, data and risks, ideally before signing.
  2. Access transferYour own admin accounts, without losing data.
  3. Knowledge captureThe seller’s explanations become procedures.
  4. First winsImprovements that take pressure off the team.

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