While ever and always a definite minority versus buying an existing collision center, start-ups — launching a body shop business from the ground up — can have legs.
It continues as an option for indie owners or techs with time in the business who want to add a location or, in the American Dream second only to home ownership, “be your own boss.”
In some ways it’s tougher — if it was easy everyone would do it. But start-ups offer benefits as well, or no one would. These include the chance to do it your way, learn from — by not repeating! — past mistakes, be all-in on and solely on the hook for results, and possibly that most fun one: naming rights…