Jeff Sosville

Skaneateles, New York

I write about how small businesses really get bought and sold.

I studied criminology, worked as an insurance fraud investigator, and then spent 25 years in small business. Most business listings tell a story. I try to find out whether it is true.

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WRITING

One piece a week on misleading claims in small-business sales. Inflated add-backs. "Motivated sellers" who have been listed for two years. Businesses taken down and relisted under new numbers. I start with business brokerage because it is the world I know.

• 2026-10     Why BizBuySell Has No Reason to Fix Itself
• 2026-03     The Market Has No Memory

WE WERE CUTTERS

A novel, posted a chapter at a time as I write it.

• Chapter 1, coming soon

READING

I read novels and biographies more than business books. I like a strong voice and a story that moves.

• David Simon, Homicide. The reason I got a criminology degree.
• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
• Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
• Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
• Ivan Turgenev
• Richard Powers
• George Saunders
• Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
• Robert Macfarlane, Underland
• Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature

ABOUT

My day job is building businesses, through Sosville Group. I'm obsessed with open source, which is why I'm building DealLedger. I am working on a novel.

I live in Skaneateles. I walk, read, hike and ride my bike nearly every day.

CONTACT

jasosville@gmail.com

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