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In partnership with Karpos Capital Partners · Private equity
Private equity capital · Trades & home-services owners

There’s real capital to grow your business. Or to get you out. Is your business ready?

Karpos Capital Partners is a private equity firm that puts real money into well-run trades and home-services businesses. Whether you want to scale bigger than you could alone, take some chips off the table and stay in, or get out altogether, the first step is the same: getting the business ready. That’s what Marty Park is here for, and it’s what this session is about.

Grow, partner, or exit, your call A real P.E. firm’s number, not a broker’s guess Find out if your business is ready for capital

Karpos is selective. It invests in only a fraction of the businesses it reviews, so most owners who go through this won’t get an offer. And that’s the point. A “yes” from a real private equity firm means something precisely because most businesses won’t get one.

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A real P.E. firm
Karpos Capital Partners
active private-equity investor
$750K→$2.4M
Electrical services co.,
business valuation
643
Entrepreneurs
coached
29+ yrs
Evolve Business Group
track record
Where capital can take you

Two doors. The same first step.

There are two doors in front of you. One is growth: you take real capital and grow the business you’ve already built. The other is the exit: you sell one day for a number that sets up the rest of your life. And there is a whole range in between, including taking some capital off the table now and staying in as a partner. You don’t have to pick today. Whichever way you lean, the work to get there is the same work: building a business that runs well without you on every job. Do that, and every door opens.

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Door One
Grow

Take real capital and grow the business you built: the crews, the trucks, the territory you can’t reach on your own. Take some off the table now if you want, bring Karpos in as a partner, and keep running a business many times the size, for as many years as you like.

02
Door Two
Exit

Build a business genuinely worth buying, then sell on your own timeline for a number that reflects what it's actually worth. Walk away with money that changes your life, not a broker's lowball.

Getting ready comes first

Here's the part that makes this simple. You don't have to know today which door you want. Before you can walk through either one, there's work to be done to get your business ready, and that work is exactly the same no matter which door you're heading for. A business that runs without you there every day is what a private equity firm will put real money behind, and it's also what sells one day for a real number. So you get ready first, and you choose your door later, from strength instead of exhaustion.

In the 60-minute session, Marty Park walks you through:

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Why your business is worth less than it should be
The thing that scares off capital and buyers the most is a business that only works because you're in it every day. If you're the one who quotes the jobs, runs the crew, and orders the materials, the business can't run without you, and that's the single biggest thing dragging down what it's worth. You'll see exactly what that's costing you, and how to fix it.
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What private equity looks at
When a firm like Karpos Capital Partners weighs a business for capital, what it focuses on, what moves the number most, and whether yours could command real money in the next 2 to 5 years. Any figure is indicative only, subject to due diligence.
3
How one electrical company did it
The exact work an electrical services company did, with Marty Park, to more than triple its value, from about $750,000 to $2.4 million. It began as a business built entirely around its owner and became one that runs on systems instead, and none of it was luck. It was structure, in the right order. That's the full story you'll read just below.
A real Evolve client. A real outcome.

His business was worth $750K.
Five years later, $2.4M, and he takes six weeks off.

$750K
Business value, built around him
→
$2.4M
Business value, running without him

An electrical services company came to Marty Park doing about $1.5 million a year. Solid reputation, steady demand, and a business that ran entirely through its owner, who did every quote, every hire, and every important call himself.

Over five years, through a recession and COVID, they rebuilt it: the pricing, the systems, and a team that could run the work without the owner standing over every job.

Here’s what most people miss. Revenue nearly doubled, to $2.75 million, and profit more than tripled, from $136,000 to $323,000. But the number that matters most for capital is this: the business went from being worth about $750,000 to $2.4 million, because a business that runs without its owner is worth far more than one that doesn’t. And the owner went from never taking a vacation to six weeks off.

Not hype, and not a broker’s number. A real electrical services business, its value more than tripled by making it run without its owner, which is exactly what makes a business worth real capital, whether you grow it further or sell it one day. That is a real Evolve client.

3.2×
Business value,
start to now
$2.4M
What it’s
worth now
643
Entrepreneurs
coached by Evolve
29+ yrs
Evolve
track record
Real owners. Real results.

Owners who built something worth investing in

They grew the numbers, got free of the daily grind, and built the kind of business a firm will put real capital behind, whether they choose to grow, partner, or sell. Every result below is a real Evolve client outcome.

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One owner built a content-marketing business from nothing to nearly a million dollars in two years, and had offers to buy the company for over a million before he was even looking to sell.

A content-marketing business · Coached by Marty
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In eighteen months, revenue nearly doubled to over four million, profit multiplied more than twenty-fold, and the owner opened a second business.

SKA skincare manufacturerEvolve client
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In under a year, sales grew from $830,000 to $1.32 million, and the close rate jumped twenty-six percent.

CXA construction businessEvolve client
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Our sales increased by 236 percent in the first three months of working with Marty and implementing his strategies.

DDawnBusiness owner
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Many owners have doubled or tripled revenue and profit, while going from eighty-hour weeks to forty.

EVEvolve clientsAcross industries
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From day one, I was blown away by how actionable the coaching was. Small changes led to big changes in how I ran the business.

MSMaxwell StanleySymed
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I learned in three days what normally takes six months to a year of hard slog.

NDNick DoveBusiness owner

Every testimonial here is a real Evolve Business Group client.

The difference capital makes

Same business. Two outcomes.

The work is the same either way. What changes is whether you do it alone, or with real capital and people who've done it behind you.

On your ownThe default path
With a capital partnerThe Karpos Capital Partners path
You sell for whatever the business is worth the day you're done, which usually isn't much when it can't run without you.
You spend a few years building it into a business worth real money, and then you sell it for that higher number.
You can only grow as fast as your own cash allows, so every new truck or big job waits until you've saved up for it.
You get real capital to add crews, trucks, and territory, buy equipment, open a second yard, or pay off high-interest debt.
A broker floats a big number to win your listing, then talks you down once the real offers don't show up.
You get a real number straight from a private equity firm that's actually ready to put its own money behind it.
The business keeps depending on you, so the day you stop showing up is the day it stops working.
You build a layer of leaders under you, so the business runs and grows without you in the middle of it.
From here

Picture three years from now.

You can start this week, whichever way suits you. From there the path is the same whichever door you’re headed for, grow, partner, or sell. Here’s what the next few years actually look like, step by step.

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This week
Start your way
Pick your speed: a 60-minute session, a one-on-one Consult, or your written Assessment. Any one gets you moving. You don’t have to do all three, or do them in order.
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The work
Get ready
Put managers in place, get the books clean, build a layer of leaders, the work that makes a business worth real capital.
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With capital
Capital in
Karpos brings real capital behind the plan, to grow faster than you could alone, or to take some off the table and stay in.
4
Over time
It grows
The business gets bigger and runs without you at the center of it.
5
Your door
Grow, partner, or exit
Keep building, take some off the table and stay in, or exit on your timeline for what it’s finally worth.
Your next move

You don't have to decide today.
You just have to find out.

Find out what a private equity firm like Karpos Capital Partners looks at before it invests in a business or buys one, and get an indicative sense of what your business is worth today and what it would take to raise that number. Start however you like: the live session, a Consult, or your Assessment.

Option one
Change nothing. The ceiling on what you've built stays exactly where it is.
Option two
Take the next step and find out what's actually possible.
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Straight answers

Why are we doing this?

No mystery, and no catch. Here is exactly what each of us is here for.

Evolve Business Group
Why is Marty doing this?

Marty has owned thirteen companies of his own across seven industries, and has spent nearly thirty years, and more than sixteen thousand hours, coaching owners to build businesses that run without them: better systems, stronger teams, cleaner books, real leadership. That is also exactly what makes a business worth investing in, so he is the person who gets an owner ready, both for capital and for the life they wanted when they started. He is looking for owners worth helping get there. Karpos pays him nothing, ever. He is paid only by the owners he coaches.

Karpos Capital Partners
Why is Karpos doing this?

We are a private equity firm, and we are looking for well-run businesses to put our capital into. Sometimes that means investing and keeping you on as a partner. Sometimes it means buying you out, if that is what you want. Either way, we only do well when your business is worth more. That is our motive, start to finish.

That is the whole arrangement. Karpos wants businesses worth investing in. Marty gets them ready. You decide if and when any of it is for you.