Someone leaves corporate, catches the franchise bug, and immediately wants to go big.
“I’m going to raise $2M, sign a 5-unit development deal, and build an empire.”
Sounds ambitious. Feels exciting.
It’s also the fastest way to lose everything.
Here’s what they’re actually doing:
Stacking three massive risks on top of each other.
Risk #1: New owner. You’ve never run a business before. You don’t know what you don’t know. The learning curve is steep and expensive.
Risk #2: New brand. Unproven concept in your market. No local reputation. No existing customer base. You’re the guinea pig.
Risk #3: Building from zero. Ground-up construction. Delays. Cost overruns. 12 months before you see a single dollar of revenue.
Now add investor money to the mix.
Suddenly, you’ve got partners breathing down your neck with zero margin for error.
This is a startup mentality applied to franchising.
And it misses the entire point.
Franchising isn’t venture capital. There’s no Series A. No hockey stick growth required.
The beauty of franchising is that you can go slow in the beginning.
The alternative looks like this:
Buy one existing location from a tired owner or start small with a development deal (1-3 units)
Learn the business from the ground up.
You’re going to make all the same mistakes but with lower consequences
Then repeat the process to acquire more locations
Franchising is all about stacking units + cash flow.
For a location-based business:
- 1 unit x $10k profit per month
- 3 units x $12k = $36k
- 5 units x $15k = $75k
- 10 units x $20k = $200k
For a mobile business:
- 1 trucks x $3k profit per month
- 3 trucks x $3k = $9k
- 5 trucks x $4k = $20k
- 10 trucks x $5k = $50k
- 20 trucks x $6k = $120k
Instead of stacking risks, you’re stacking wins.
Within a couple of years, you’ve got a business that makes $100-200k every month with zero outside investors.
This is the path I followed. In fact, every successful franchise owner I know has done the same.
We all started small, compounded cash, and stayed laser-focused.
You’ve got two options if you want to do the same.
1) You can figure this out on your own (it took me 5 years)
2) Buy the shortcut. I can walk you through the exact systems I used to scale from 2 locations in 2016 to 35+ today.
That’s why I built 8-Figure Franchisee.
Inside, we work together to:
- Find and structure better deals using acquisition and seller-financing playbooks members have used to pick up locations for $1
- Increase cash flow with proven execution systems, better comp plans, and labor models
- Strategically build a team to remove yourself from daily operations so growth doesn’t create more chaos
The choice is yours.
For option 2, click here to apply to 8-Figure Franchisee
Cheers!
Brian
