The Entrepreneur Awakens: Pivoting from Tech to Ownership

Today's guest was not destined to become an entrepreneur. Hailing from Macau, Kin Sio was working. In a well paid tech job when.

For the first time he got the itch to do something for himself. He started dabbling in real estate, then got more serious about it, but ultimately saw that it was going to take a long time to approach the hefty six figure earnings of his tech job. In 2024, when two local real estate investors hosted an in person seminar about how they'd rolled up cleaning businesses, Kin attended and brought…

Something clicked by the following January. This past January 2025, he bought lights On Digital, the subject of today's interview themes to Listen for Robs, the program. That enables you to tap your 401k.

For the equity to buy a business. Kin considered it, then decided against it. Listen for his analysis.

If you own real estate, the value of getting a HELOC before you get an SBA loan how Kin collaborated on terms and purchase price with the sellers before even writing the loi, and how he presented three options for the sellers to choose from the pros and cons of owning a business remotely.

Kin is in Seattle, Lights on is in Honolulu and my favorite theme, the overarching one of a guy who started down a conventional career path but along the way found his entrepreneurial side awaken and embraced it. Here he is, Kin Sio, owner of Lightson Digital for first time business buyers, finding and acquiring the right business can be overwhelming, especially While balancing a W2 job family…

So we're hosting a webinar to explore how buyers are outsourcing their search. Athena Simpson of Aquamatch will lead the presentation which will include what buy side advising means, what different models look like, the hidden cost of a slow search and full time searching versus keeping your W2 and how the right outsourced support for your search completely changes the calculation.

Here you will leave this webinar with Athena with a clearer understanding of your options and and how to speed up your path to ownership without quitting your job or going it alone. That's going to be next Thursday, June 5th noon Eastern. The webinar is how to outsource your search understanding Buy side advisory.

Register at the link in today's show notes or on the Acquiring Minds homepage. Acquiring Minds Co welcome to Acquiring Minds, a podcast about buying businesses. My name is Will Smith.

Acquiring an existing business is an awesome opportunity for many entrepreneurs and on this podcast I talk to the people who do it. If you ask owners in the ETA and search community which Insurance broker provides highest quality work, great outcomes and has a practice dedicated to searchers and acquisition entrepreneurs. One name comes up again and again.

Oberle. Oberle Risk Strategies has worked with hundreds of searchers over nearly a decade and is in fact led by a two time successful searcher, August Felker, which makes Oberle a specialty insurance brokerage for searchers by a former searcher. And if you've got a business under Loi, Oberle will provide complimentary due diligence on that business's insurance and benefits program.

An easy no risk way to get to know August and the team at Oberle to take advantage. Check out oberly-risk.com that's O B E R L E- risk.com link in the. Notes. Kin Sio welcome to acquiring Minds.