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Indie Acquisitions — 96 episodes

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1

We Bought a Bankrupt Software Company

2

How to Build High-Performing Teams in Latin America

3

Hard Lessons Learned Scaling a Startup in Year 1

4

Bending Spoons Breakdown (Italian Constellation Software)

5

How to Deliver Unreasonable Hospitality

6

How to Deal with Lawsuits & Ransoms

7

Capital Camp 2024 & Tough Turnarounds

8

How We Use AI to Replace Employees

9

Visiting a Secret Club, Austin, Latin America Hiring & Remote Teams

10

How Double Your Software Business With Services

11

How to Use Traction / EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Scale Your Business

12

2023 Recap: Wins, Losses, & Learnings

13

We Sold Our SaaS Business! Learnings & Process

14

How to Raise Prices & Launch Growth Services

15

How to Buy a Venture Capital Orphan (Real Example)

16

6 Month Review of a SaaS Acquisition

17

How to Bootstrap a $300m Tourism Vertical SaaS

18

How a Ex-Googler Built a $220m Vertical SaaS in Flooring

19

We Made a Huge Mistake

20

How the Pritzkers Made Their Billions Through Acquisition

21

Brent Beshore & Permanent Equity Business Breakdown

22

How to Manage & Grow a Remote Team

23

Software Companies Are Dead. ChatGPT Killed Them.

24

How To Build an Offshore Tech Team & Transition Challenges

25

How to Bootstrap a Startup from $0 to $1 million in ARR

26

How to Find Riches in Software Niches

27

Tiny Goes Public & How to Structure a HoldCo

28

Buying 134 Software Companies in a Year

29

2022 Recap: 2023 Opportunities, Wins, Failures, & Lessons

30

How to Build Trust to Buy Companies & Sell Products

31

How to Transition & Grow a Company After You Buy It

32

We Bought Scout! Learnings & Negotiation Play-by-Play

33

How You Can Buy a Business With the Profits From the Business

34

Product Led Growth vs Enterprise Sales, Buying the Rights to an Out-of-Print Book, Lebron of Pickleball

35

What Matters in Acquisition Due Diligence & Warren Buffett Handshake Deals

36

Pros & Cons of Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Startup Studios

37

Losing a Deal to Mark Leonard, HoldCo Conference & a $100M NFT Fund

38

John Malone Operating Manual (Billionaire Cable Cowboy)

39

Deep Work, Productivity Hacks, & Sleep Training

40

How to Become a Lighthouse for Like-Minded People

41

Buying Companies in a Downturn & Launching a Cohort-Based Course on Acquisitions

42

Hiring Overseas Like the Navy Seals & Launching an Anti-Franchise With Jon Matzner

43

How to Hire & Train Virtual Assistants

44

How to Balance Building & Buying Companies?

45

New Name! Baremetrics Price Increase, Twitter Hostile Takeover & Product Improvements

46

Buying Internet vs Non-Internet Businesses & Paid Acquisition Funnel

47

How to Increase Prices & Keep Customers Happy

48

How to Raise Money & Find Investors for Private Equity Deals

49

Our Latest Acquisition Story & Danger of Building in Public

50

How to Do Acquisition Due Diligence & Smoothly Transition a Business

51

How We Lost a Deal & How We Can Do Better Next Time

52

How & Why to Use Debt to Buy a Business

53

Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings

54

Productized Technical Diligence, Building Standard Operating Procedures, & DeFi Issues

55

ESW Capital Operating Manual - Hardcore Shared Services

56

How to Give a SaaS a Modern Facelift

57

DeFi, Wealth Building, NFTs, & the Metaverse with Jason Hitchcock

58

Why You Should Take a Week to Learn DeFi

59

Hiring Abroad, Structuring Value-Add, & Buying Companies with Pipe

60

Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity Partners) Story - Billionaire Software PE

61

How to Run Shared Services in PE & VC

62

Outbound vs Inbound Deal Sourcing & Course/Community Launch

63

How to Crowdfund a Micro PE Deal

64

How to Structure a Private Equity Fund

65

Mark Leonard (Constellation Software) Story - Billionaire Software Empire Builder

66

The Deal Process & Evergreen Fund Structures

67

Soft Landings for Venture Orphans

68

Micro-PE Course & Buying vs Building

69

How to Source Small Companies to Buy

70

How to Build a World-Class Network

71

Opportunities in Micro-PE & Picking Our Niche

72

Track Records, Deal Examples, & Business Coaching

73

Setting up a Private Equity Firm

74

The One Question to Ask as a Product Owner

75

Setting Up Analytics & Wrestling with Legacy Code

76

We Bought Blinksale, a Profitable B2B SaaS!

77

Closing our First Micro-PE Acquisition

78

Negotiating a Micro-PE Acquisition

79

AngelList for Acquisitions and Automation Sprints

80

OnlyFans & Business Coaching

81

Micro Private Equity and SBA Loans

82

Nootropics, Fractional Employees, & Clubhouse

83

The Most Efficient Business We Use

84

2020 Year in Review

85

Our VC-backed Competitor is Struggling

86

Making Audio Courses Interactive

87

How We Build Product

88

How to Cold Email Anyone

89

Improving Conversion Rates

90

The Power of Dogfooding

91

What's Not Allowed on our Platform?

92

Amazonification of the Audio Market

93

How to Get Customers Without a Big Budget

94

Our First Coaching Customer

95

Pricing in the Creator Economy

96

The Founding Story (Start Here!)