🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:11 Our First Podcast Sponsor DueDilio 00:53 Intro to Trish Higgins 01:23 What Chenmark Capital Mgmt. does...and how 05:38 Clarifying the Ebidta requirement 07:09 Are Investors throwing money at Chenmark? 09:48 Who / what idea or company are you modelling - 20 year horizon? 12:59 How many companies have you acquired, who was first? 15:44 1st Acquisition - Seabreeze Properties - How did you find it, where, how was process, of...
Jan 09, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 41
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Roman Beylin is the founder of DueDilio, an M&A due diligence marketplace as well as publisher of The Business Inquirer newsletter. He began his career in investment management and moved to investment banking. In 2013 he caught the entrepreneurial bug and co-founded one of the first alternative data consulting firms counting some of the most well-known hedge funds as clients. After a few years, he sold that business and si...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Callum is founder and CEO of MBH Corporation PLC, an agglomeration of 27 acquisitions, small, profitable companies from around the world. By leveraging the Agglomeration strategy, MBH Corporation plc is able to create substantial shareholder value through the consistent and accretive acquisition of excellent companies MBH Corporation plc is listed on the Frankfurt and Dusseldorf Stock Exchanges and the OTCQX in New York (MBHCF...
Dec 19, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 39
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business John co-founded Wolverine Energy Services Inc. with Jesse Douglas in 2012 with an initial acquisition of a $5 million revenue oilfield services company. From his first acquisition to 2020, they acquired 16 more businesses, grew revenue to $240 million and took the company public (TSX:WEII) Also President to Divestopedia - which helps sell businesses. 00:00 Intro to John Carvalho - hat tip to Williams English 01:14 His call to ...
Dec 13, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 38
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Daniel Sweet specializes in taking healthy Texas small businesses ranging from $1MM - $20MM in revenue, partnering with a management team and financing partners to build a plan to take the business to the next logical level. Our specialty industries are Technology-, Energy-, and Construction related businesses headquartered in the Great State of Texas. 00:00 Intro to Daniel Sweet. Buy businesses in his / founders background 01...
Dec 06, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 37
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Managing Partner at Verde Holdings- Verde Holdings multi-family office that invests in: Control investments in middle market service companies in the Western U.S. Multi unit and commercial real estate nationally, Early stage technology companies. CEO at CAPTARGET which provides M&A research and deal origination services to middle market M&A and Private Equity firms. 00:00 Intro to Gabe Galvez - where it got started - w...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 36
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Micheal is CEO and Co-Founder at Erdos Ventures. Micheal is graduate of Techstars LA '21. Erdos Ventures is a Techstars backed company that leverages technology to appraise, acquire, and activate portfolios of high potential niche e-commerce brands at scale. 00:00 Intro to Micheal Liu 00:15 What / Who is Erdos - why the name origin - finding connections between companies 01:24 His acquisition thesis - what they want to bu...
Nov 22, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 35
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Marcus Sheridan Bio - International Keynote Speaker on Digital Sales/Marketing, Ranked #1 LinkedIn Voices for Entrepreneurship, Author of "They Ask, You Answer" and "The Visual Sale" Owner/Partner at IMPACT a Digital Marketing Agency, Partner at River Pools - built to $15mm in sales from Warsaw, Virginia - population 1400 00:00 Intro to Marcus 01:56 My experience applying Marcus's work to my business 0...
Nov 15, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 34
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Nick McLean is founder and member Four Pillar Investments. Nick participates in all aspects of Four Pillars’ business. Currently, most of his activities revolve around deal origination and deal execution. 00:00 Intro to Nick McLean - bio 00:38 Why he called his company Four Pillars Investors - and what they mean to how he operates 03:27 How they qualify people from companies they acquire - 05:37 The industry sector they acquir...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 33
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 32 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Matt Bodnar - 8 Successful Deals - Forbes 30 under 30, Inc. Fastest Growing Company, Chairman of Fresh Technology, Cofounder & Managing partner of Fresh Capital, Host of Science of Success Podcast with 5 Million downloads. 00:00 Intro to Matt Bodnar 03:29 His M&A Entrepreneurial Call to Adventure - working full time or owning equity 06:34 His first step - Guidance from Entrepreneurial ...
Oct 25, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 32
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 31 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Matt Fischer 8 Fitness Acquisitions , Opened 10th Location 00:00 Intro Matt Fischer - 8 Fitness Acquisitions, Opened 10th Fitness Location - Fitness SaaS 02:19 His Uncle's inspiration - The Mentor Entrepreneur influence 04:33 Meeting his Mentor - Not much of sharer - watched from behind the scenes 05:40 First Acquisition with Partner - what happened to that - did it make money - meeting e...
Oct 18, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 31
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Michael is an online business entrepreneur and investor. He started building, buying and selling websites as a student and later founded Domain Magnate in 2008 to make a career out of it. 00:00 Intro to Michael Bereslavsky micro revenue acquisitions, first acquisition he paid $120 - sold for $2500 20X MOIC 00:00 moving upstream in Revenue Acquisitions - staying below $1 mm - why - its the market 07:44 Focusing on Content sites...
Oct 11, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 30
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro to Adam Coffey, Army Vet, bought sold 100 companies in 20 years, bought 21 for CoolSys, author of the Private Equity Playbook and The EXIT Strategy Playbook 02:07 Why did he write them and reason for Private Equity Playbook and The EXIT Strategy Playbooks - adding credibility 03:42 Sponsored by 2 different Private Equity firms - the back story - the goal of... 07:42 How he started with CoolSys 09:42 The target &...
Oct 04, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 29
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro to Moran Pober back story global citizen 01:34 How he acquired the domain Acquisitions dot com and Rollups dot com and using it 06:29 What kind of deals he looks for - his style - his involvement - getting access to Moran 10:54 His hungriest Acquisition Entrepreneurs 12:10 How luck and persistence plays in this business 13:23 The One student who rolled up 16 companies in 6 months story Keyword: Masterminds 16:55 Wh...
Sep 27, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 28
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro Andrew Pierno and XOXO Capital 00:38 Andrew's backstory, a Venture Fund, CTO, Raising $8Million - What happened When it fell apart 05:45 Talking about MicroAquire & the types businesses and entrepreneurs that list 07:40 The start of Acquisition Thesis - Zero to One Sucks 09:40 Sourcing deals - Off Market Only - Cash Flow and Multiples not Based on Reality 10:51 Types of Financing he uses to Acquire - and H...
Sep 20, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro Carl Allen, his M&A origin story 02:22 What happened to Ninja Acquisitions & his deal with Agora Publishing 05:10 One student's success story - 16 Acquisitions a year - Another headed to Billion$ Valuation 07:48 The Warren Buffett of Mainstreet 08:27 How many hours, days he works now - how much money he has... 09:29 The difference between success and failure 10:26 Is deal making a get rich quick scheme...
Sep 03, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 26
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro to Elliott Holland 02:28 What "Open Air" Negotiations are 04:00 How big were the Private Equity Deals he worked on 04:53 When he started making his own acquisitions - 1. tow truck Co. , 2. auto parts & 3. clinical trials 06:05 How long he kept the 3 acquisitions - did he like owning them 07:10 Due Diligence for Buyers - Digging into Financial / Commercial / Operational 12:51 How he works with Walker D...
Aug 31, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 25
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro to Mike Jamieson 00:43 Buying his first business - Landscaping 02:25 US Air Force Pilot to Harvard Business School MBA Decision 05:47 The HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business written by ABRY Capital founders - how the Searchfunder model started 11:59 Self-Fund or Search-Fund how his deal blew up in his face 13:24 Trying to buy a software company with 90% margins - why the banks turned it down 16:28 Investors he lin...
Aug 26, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 24
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 23 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Involved in 130, personally Acquired 55 Companies, 18 Industries 00:00 Intro to Arturo Henriquez 01:23 How Arturo Prospects, Black Envelopes get opened by "Sellers" 04:46 How he found his most recent acquisition a Pool Service Company 06:45 Can he scale a Pool Service Company? 09:29 What is the exit plan for his acquisitions? 16:04 Mastering the ability to work above the business: Pe...
Aug 19, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 23
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 0:00 Intro to Joel Ankney, Attorney, Author of: "Here's the Deal Everything You Wish a Lawyer Would Tell You about Buying a Small Business" 01:12 How many acquisitions he has worked on - over 100 02:15 When, at what point in process, is it important to have Deal Team set up 06:03 Can you use a LOI as preemptive strike to lock seller up? 09:35 The buyer seller cultural fit - how personalities can blow a deal up 1...
Aug 11, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 22
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:00 Intro to Ted, Author of a 3 Business Buying Books, acquired 29 Businesses in 1990s 00:30 You acquired a number of businesses in the 90s, but have not in a while, Do you still own any, sell them, and Why did you move to assisting searchers & Buyers? 03:10 For searchers and Buyers, What would you say is the most important "area" or part of the acquisition game? 06:03 What types of searchers and buyers, client...
Aug 06, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 21
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 20 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Ernesto Ricci Argentina Buenos Aires Football Tournaments 00:00 Intro to Ernesto Ricci 02:45 Why he signed up for Roland's EPIC scalable.co/epic-challenge 05:15 How he is applying M&A to buying Football Tournaments - his framework for the search & his pitch to sellers 10:35 how many tournaments he as acquired so far... 11:41 What an offer for a tournament looks like - numbers on a...
Jul 29, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 20
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 19 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Sam Palazzolo Tip of the Spear 00:12 Book: Deliberate Discomfort by Jason Van Camp - Tip of Spear - The Impact of the Book 02:50 Works with 3 Coaches - Each with specific Clarity Path - Why you need a coach 07:10 How he makes decision to move up from a coach - the ROI you need to get 14:36 Tip of the Spear Acquisitions Business Model - 10 Years later... 19:48 Hybrid VC / M&A / Consulting M...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 19
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 18 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Mathew Wainwright 60 Plus deals and $250M in value 00:00 in M&A business at 23 years old. 01:04 Recently acquired UK Salads adding $50 Million 02:05 How he got started in M&A took a course at 19 His Why 06:00 How he started working with Paul Seabridge 07:10 How his partnership is structured with Paul 09:15 The part of the deal he likes doing - its all about confidence 10:40 How he &quo...
Jul 14, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 18
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 00:20 Author of 3 books: The CEO's Mindset, FALSE PROFITS, The Best Investment: A Better You 02:10 His start in Acquiring Businesses - As M&A Attorney seeing 100's of companies 04:10 His first. Met a Wiz Bang Kid that needed help - Business was breaking 06:10 His most successful deal to date - it has quadrupled in revenue 08:00 How he scaled the business to 8 figures 13:24 What he is actively looking at to acquir...
Jul 06, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 16 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Walker Deibel, 7 Acquisitions, "Old Economy Meets New Economy Strategy" 00:00 Walkers Buy Then Build Book 1:17 The Genesis of His Acquisition Entrepreneurship 7:55 Private Equity Facts 09:35 Influence from his family 11:11 Money Ball, the numbers 13:00 His experience with Different verticals versus a Niching 18:12 His first acquisition 21:56 Why he does not get hung up on price 23:00...
Jul 05, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 16
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 15 Top M&A Entrepreneurs Joe Valley Co-Owner Quiet Light Brokerage - Author: The EXITpreneur's Playbook Has talked to over 8,000 selling entrepreneurs How he got started - self-employed since 1997 Started a media buying agency, then moved into colon cleansing Sold that business to Quiet Light 6 acquisitions, 6 exits The more people you help, the better your brand and reputation, and the more your business grows in ...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business 14 Top M&A Entrepreneurs: Jeff Charlton 18 acquisitions in 15 years Civil engineer by training Why he started acquiring businesses First acquisition: bought a vendor with no money down Every acquisition after that was to acquire salespeople Almost all 18 acquisitions were no money out of pocket None of his acquisitions were making money at the time Why he finds the best deals during recessions Why he uses direct mail Key q...
Jun 10, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 14
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business E: 12 Top M&A Entrepreneurs - Chris Daigle - Assisted 1000s but working on the Billion Dollar Idea. How he got the nickname Doctor. How he started in EPIC. Has since assisted over 2000 students. Has known Adam Lyons for 10+ years. Book recommendation: Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times. Working on Financial Newsletter roll-up. Why? Trillions in retail capital available. Lo...
Jun 09, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 12
🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar Business Summary First Acquisition at 29 years old..an inspiring and cautionary tale. Christopher has worked on over 400 companies. The timing, and moment of clarity, where he asked, "what would happen if he owned these companies? "First acquisition was all cash, all the risk upfront, but 11 months later sold and tripled investment. Since then, acquires at least one per year. He loves the ecommerce space. Why he has done well...
Jun 08, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
