Jeremy Harbour - Founder of The Harbour Club & Unity Group | He's Bought 100+ Companies. Here's How to Buy Your First With No Cash Upfront.

➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Jeremy Harbour is the founder of Unity Group and The Harbour Club, a British entrepreneur who left school at 15 and has since bought more than 100 companies. Over 30 years he has been involved in more than 300 acquisitions, taken companies public, and generated over $500 million in exits, with investments in 12 countries. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Go Do Deals and was invited to advise at the British Houses of Parliament on business and enterprise. In 2009 he started The Harbour Club, which teaches people how to buy a business with no cash upfront. The idea began in the late 1990s, when he bought a competitor of his telecom company without any cash or a bank behind him. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/harbour.jeremy/ https://x.com/JeremyJHarbour https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyharbour/ ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/ Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn Ads - https://linkedin.com/scottclary Cohesity - https://www.cohesity.com/datacloud Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/ Monarch - https://www.monarch.com/ (Code: success) Cash App - https://cash.app/ (Code: cashapp10) MyFitnessPal - https://podcasts.myfitnesspal.com (Code: SCOTT) Life at the Speed of Play - https://getmarksbook.com/success Noom - https://noom.com ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 04:11 – How He Fell Into Acquisitions 08:37 – His First Acquisition 12:38 – How to Fix a Struggling Business 13:37 – Buy What You Understand 15:36 – The Right Business to Buy 16:57 – Buy a Business With No Money 24:02 – How to Find Great Deals 26:54 – Sponsor Break 29:58 – Managing 100 Companies 33:21 – Taking Companies Public 36:54 – The Legal Arbitrage 37:53 – The Acquisition Ladder 41:02 – How to Buy a Competitor 42:42 – The Biggest Acquisition Mistakes 47:40 – Where to Find Your First Deal 50:25 – Born Entrepreneurial 50:48 – The Biggest Bet He Made 51:50 – The Real Risk Is Regret 53:01 – Sponsor Break 56:45 – What Drives Him Now 59:26 – Success Changes Everything 1:00:36 – Advice for His Younger Self 1:05:51 – Facing Your Mortality 1:06:26 – Revenue Isn’t Wealth 1:09:22 – Why You Need to Sell 1:10:42 – Where to Find Jeremy 1:12:24 – Advice for His Kids