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Indie Acquisitions — 96 episodes
We Bought a Bankrupt Software Company
How to Build High-Performing Teams in Latin America
Hard Lessons Learned Scaling a Startup in Year 1
Bending Spoons Breakdown (Italian Constellation Software)
How to Deliver Unreasonable Hospitality
How to Deal with Lawsuits & Ransoms
Capital Camp 2024 & Tough Turnarounds
How We Use AI to Replace Employees
Visiting a Secret Club, Austin, Latin America Hiring & Remote Teams
How Double Your Software Business With Services
How to Use Traction / EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Scale Your Business
2023 Recap: Wins, Losses, & Learnings
We Sold Our SaaS Business! Learnings & Process
How to Raise Prices & Launch Growth Services
How to Buy a Venture Capital Orphan (Real Example)
6 Month Review of a SaaS Acquisition
How to Bootstrap a $300m Tourism Vertical SaaS
How a Ex-Googler Built a $220m Vertical SaaS in Flooring
We Made a Huge Mistake
How the Pritzkers Made Their Billions Through Acquisition
Brent Beshore & Permanent Equity Business Breakdown
How to Manage & Grow a Remote Team
Software Companies Are Dead. ChatGPT Killed Them.
How To Build an Offshore Tech Team & Transition Challenges
How to Bootstrap a Startup from $0 to $1 million in ARR
How to Find Riches in Software Niches
Tiny Goes Public & How to Structure a HoldCo
Buying 134 Software Companies in a Year
2022 Recap: 2023 Opportunities, Wins, Failures, & Lessons
How to Build Trust to Buy Companies & Sell Products
How to Transition & Grow a Company After You Buy It
We Bought Scout! Learnings & Negotiation Play-by-Play
How You Can Buy a Business With the Profits From the Business
Product Led Growth vs Enterprise Sales, Buying the Rights to an Out-of-Print Book, Lebron of Pickleball
What Matters in Acquisition Due Diligence & Warren Buffett Handshake Deals
Pros & Cons of Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Startup Studios
Losing a Deal to Mark Leonard, HoldCo Conference & a $100M NFT Fund
John Malone Operating Manual (Billionaire Cable Cowboy)
Deep Work, Productivity Hacks, & Sleep Training
How to Become a Lighthouse for Like-Minded People
Buying Companies in a Downturn & Launching a Cohort-Based Course on Acquisitions
Hiring Overseas Like the Navy Seals & Launching an Anti-Franchise With Jon Matzner
How to Hire & Train Virtual Assistants
How to Balance Building & Buying Companies?
New Name! Baremetrics Price Increase, Twitter Hostile Takeover & Product Improvements
Buying Internet vs Non-Internet Businesses & Paid Acquisition Funnel
How to Increase Prices & Keep Customers Happy
How to Raise Money & Find Investors for Private Equity Deals
Our Latest Acquisition Story & Danger of Building in Public
How to Do Acquisition Due Diligence & Smoothly Transition a Business
How We Lost a Deal & How We Can Do Better Next Time
How & Why to Use Debt to Buy a Business
Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings
Productized Technical Diligence, Building Standard Operating Procedures, & DeFi Issues
ESW Capital Operating Manual - Hardcore Shared Services
How to Give a SaaS a Modern Facelift
DeFi, Wealth Building, NFTs, & the Metaverse with Jason Hitchcock
Why You Should Take a Week to Learn DeFi
Hiring Abroad, Structuring Value-Add, & Buying Companies with Pipe
Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity Partners) Story - Billionaire Software PE
How to Run Shared Services in PE & VC
Outbound vs Inbound Deal Sourcing & Course/Community Launch
How to Crowdfund a Micro PE Deal
How to Structure a Private Equity Fund
Mark Leonard (Constellation Software) Story - Billionaire Software Empire Builder
The Deal Process & Evergreen Fund Structures
Soft Landings for Venture Orphans
Micro-PE Course & Buying vs Building
How to Source Small Companies to Buy
How to Build a World-Class Network
Opportunities in Micro-PE & Picking Our Niche
Track Records, Deal Examples, & Business Coaching
Setting up a Private Equity Firm
The One Question to Ask as a Product Owner
Setting Up Analytics & Wrestling with Legacy Code
We Bought Blinksale, a Profitable B2B SaaS!
Closing our First Micro-PE Acquisition
Negotiating a Micro-PE Acquisition
AngelList for Acquisitions and Automation Sprints
OnlyFans & Business Coaching
Micro Private Equity and SBA Loans
Nootropics, Fractional Employees, & Clubhouse
The Most Efficient Business We Use
2020 Year in Review
Our VC-backed Competitor is Struggling
Making Audio Courses Interactive
How We Build Product
How to Cold Email Anyone
Improving Conversion Rates
The Power of Dogfooding
What's Not Allowed on our Platform?
Amazonification of the Audio Market
How to Get Customers Without a Big Budget
Our First Coaching Customer
Pricing in the Creator Economy
The Founding Story (Start Here!)