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Let's Buy a Business — 387 episodes
Managing Yourself as an Entrepreneur
Potential SBA Updates for Investors - This impacts you...
SBA Deal Structure - Real Example with Jaryd Krause
$250k - $400k Window: Why Businesses Get Stuck Here
Cybersecurity Horror Stories in Due Diligence and Post-Closing with Nick Akers
Add Back - Math and Logic
Build It. Bank It. Sell It. Repeat.
How to Speak the Foreign Language of Personal Finances with Your Spouse
A Searcher Bought a Job and Thought it Would be Passive
2025 Recap - How to Do Something When You Don't Know the Ending
From 1,500 House Flips in 7 Years to a $800K-EBITDA Countertop Acquisition with Sean Tagge
Income and Wealth Multipliers - The Equity Multiplier Map
4 CPA/Bookkeeper Acquisitions with Patrick Dichter
How to Act Fast: Sense of Urgency to Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less
700k+ Downloads + 15-Min Slots for Calls
How to Buy a Business - Series Bonus
Being Timid Destroys All Momentum
Part 6: Closing the Deal, Financing and Next Steps
Part 5: Entry-Level Deep Dive into Due Diligence
Part 4- How to NOT lose time on every CIM - Conducting Preliminary Due Diligence
Part 3 - How to Find a Business For Sale (and Not for Sale)
Part 2 - Narrowing Down Your Criteria - How to Buy Your First Business Series
Part 1 - How to Buy Your First Business Series
Add-On Acquisitions with SBA with No Money Down
Deal Dives! - Dental Office, Marketing Agency, FBA Pet Brand
Buyer Risk After Doing Over 500 SBA Valuations in a Year with Ryan Hutchins
Most Common Problem After Talking over 500 Searchers - Narrowing Down Your Search Criteria
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Signing an LOI
July Deep Dives
How to Buy a Mountain Resort in a 300-Person Town with Rob Thompson
Impossible Acquisition Criteria - Pretender Searchers
Corporate America to eCommerce Brand Owner
2nd Dental Acquisition + 2 Year Review with Ian and Max McCusker
Successful Agency to Multiple Acquisitions of Client Businesses with Ian and Max McCusker
Decoding Public Content - Who's Really Talking (and Why It Matters)
High-Flying W2 to Stump Grinding - Leaving the Tech World
Cash Flow Fundamentals + Partner Fraud? with Patrick McMillan
How to Design Your Business Around Your Life with Jodie Cook
5 Acquisitions / Businesses on Your Own Terms with Chase Murdock
From Chemist to Sales to Acquisition Entrepreneur with Nick Akers
From PwC to Business Owner with James Richardson
Non Transferable Business - What are these and how to move on ASAP?
Deal Deep Dive: Rural ISP + White Label SEO Agency + B2B Equipment Distributor
How to Acheive a Life Long Goal
5 Key Bookkeeping Areas for any Searcher with Darin Pierson
How Do I know If I Have a Good Business Partner Fit?
Phantom Equity with Raleigh Williams
Time vs Money
Marketing Conditions for 2025 and Beyond with Andrew Gazdecki (Acquire.com)
How to Win Competitive Deals - 3 Stories
SBA Lending Pitfalls with Jared Johnson
How to NOT Suck Energy Out of the Room
You've Been Served - A 6-Year Search with Spencer Montgomery
Entrepreneur Origin Stories - How'd They Get Here: Daddy Yankee
No News Weeks
I Love Day Jobs | 5 Reasons to Not Quit
SMB Financial Basics with Darin Pierson
Real 401k ROBS Stories | Diane Rosenkrantz
How to Buy a Fireworks Stand + Other Side Bets
How to Write a Book over 10 Years with Sam Whitney
$500 for a Night of Entertainment
Winning LOIs with Patrick O' Connell
Elite Turf Supply and Betting on Yourself with Taylor Brown
Seller Mistakes and Pari Passu with Stephen Speer
Why Brokers Reject 95% of the Deals They See
How to Pick the Right Agency with Behdad Jamshidi
3 Reasons Why Sellers Think Their Business is Worth More
Top 3 Takeaways from an MBA ETA Event with James Lincoln
Net Working Capital with Patrick McMillan
Startup to $15M Revenue + 2 Acquisitions with Jordan Hammond
The Donut King
Mastering the Inner Game with Nathan Tanner
Changing My Career Every 2 Years
Franchising to Dirty Jobs with 4 Successful Exits with Reid Tileston
2 Businesses for Sale I Like Right Now
B2B Sales to Entrepreneurship with Brian Luebben
Quitting 3 Jobs Before Buying Businesses with Michael Frew
Business for Sale - Mobile Trash Compaction Business with Matt Hash
Determining your Normal Home Mode (Emotional Home)
Real-Time: How to Fund Austin's Search with Austin
What is the difference between EBITDA vs SDE? (with a cash flow bonus)
How to Transition from Corporate Career to SaaS Entrepreneur and Buyer With Mitch Woodhead
Using ROBS 401K to Buy a Business with Diane Rosenkrantz
$0 to $140k/Month + An Exit with Spencer Patterson
Not Enough - Inadequate Feelings | Let's Buy a Business
February 2024 Mailbag
Online Trends + Cookies + Deal Structure in 2024 with Mushfiq Sarker
Why Would Someone Sell a Perfectly Good Business
How to Combine Learnings Across Industries with Robb Green
3 Tips for Searchers with Patrick O'Connell
Healthcare for Entrepreneurs
Fall 2023 Recap + 4 Points of the Market
2 Successful Exits with Lexi Grant from They Got Acquired
M&A for Dummies with Bill Snow
Why I Became a Business Broker
Self-Taught Acquisition Entrepreneurship with Bakari Akil
$10M in Content Site Acquisitions with Mohit Tater
Negotiating the Last Paycheck of Your Life
From Engineer to Online Business Operator with Kyle Kuderewski
4-Star Cracker Barrel Waitress to Buying a CPA Practice with Della Kirkman
Agency + App + Startup | Leaving Corporate America with Colton Malone
Jersey Mike's: From 1 to 2,000 Stores
2 Acquisitions + A Mid-7-Figure Exit in a Few Months… Round 2 with Steve Keller
Successful Agency to Multiple Acquisitions of Client Businesses with Ian and Max McCusker
Latest SBA Changes and Current Acquisition Conditions with Stephen Speer
Buying World-Class Businesses with Jay Vasantharajah
Online Business Investor at Freedom Navigator with Sophie Howard
What a Chick-fil-A Real Estate Deal Looks Like with Joe Quinn
How to Keep Investors Updated When You Don't Have a Deal
$7.9M Home Services Business + Lucrative Agritourism Farm For Sale
Buying Blue Collar Businesses in Texas with Malcolm Peace
SBA Charge Off Numbers - Failure Rates!
Current Online Business Conditions with Jaryd Krause
Tale of Two Businesses: Momentum
Deal Dive - Fitness eCommerce Brand with Proprietary Products, Trademark & Patent
In the Trenches on 100's of Business Valuations with Ryan Hutchins
How to Buy into your Firm as a Partner + Quality of Earnings Mistakes with Jon Allen
3 Ways to Fund an Acquisition
Business Search to Raising $6M to Buying $22M of Real Estate in 14 Months with Joe Quinn
Buying 48 Business During the Pandemic + Mentor Seeking with Jonathan Jay
From Cameraman to 2x Acquisition Entrepreneur in the Crime Scene Cleanup World with Steve Keller
How My Father Taught Me More About Business in Afternoon than All of School
Building and Selling a Multiple 7-Figure Business without Quitting the 9 to 5 with Danny Vivier
Deal Dives - Climbing Gym Equipment Manufacturer + High-End Tropical Plants in Orange County
Going from COO to Laid Off to 7-Figure Comp + Equity
3 Acquisitions with Matthew May
3 Ways to Know If You Need a New Bookkeeper with Matt Remuzzi
The Website Flip with Mushfiq Sarker: Buying Over 175 Websites in 10 years
The Conor McGregor Effect + 2 Great Businesses
3 Entrepreneurs With an Amazing Business Model
Everything That Happens in Your Life
John Wilson Buys the Family Plumbing Company + 5 More Acquisitions + 900% Revenue Growth
Turkeys and Risk… Life is Good Till It's Not
How to Buy Businesses While Keeping Your Day Job with Ujwal Velagapudi
4 Types of Luck + Naval + How Most of My Career Stems from 1 Apartment Move in College
PPC Strategies for Searchers with Corbin White
From Selling a Business to Buying a Business Brokerage with Jessica Fialkovich
How Entrepreneurs Get Health Insurance in 2022 with Jason Ferguson
Business Listing: SBA Pre-Qual, 19-Year-Old eCom Computer Business | 1.5% Paid Advertising on $4.7M Rev + $578K SDE
They Got Acquired with Lexi Grant
How to Design Your Business Around Your Life with Jodie Cook
6 Critical Takeaways with 4 Successful Entrepreneurs
W2 to Owner - Get Your Finances in Order with Dave Lowell
Most Common Problem After Talking to 12 Searchers - Narrowing Down Your Search Criteria
Digital Service Business to College Students - Deep Dive with Lewis Faucett
Evaluating the Books During Due Diligence with Matt Remuzzi of CapForge
$68M in Revenue Since 1994 - Legacy Product / Brand for Sale
How to Transition from Employee to Entrepreneur?
Multiple Online Business Deal Dives With Yury Byalik from Onfolio Holdings
How to Buy a Mountain Resort in a 300-Person Town with Rob Thompson
Avoiding Due Diligence Pitfalls with Ahmed Raza
$1M For a Business Selling Phones to the Elderly with Lewis Fausett
How Kat Weaver Won 6-Figures to Start Her Business
Everything About Using Your 401K to Buy a Business - Frank Selden Interview
Two Deal Listing Deep Dives - Texas Edition
Building a World-Class Customer Experience with Your Acquisition with Scott Porter
Mistakes I'm seeing Often from Buyers Right Now
How to View Mainstreet Businesses in a Recession with Clint Fiore
My Brief Background + 3 Unique Deal Structures
What You Will feel as a Searcher with Jordan Carter
Alternative Lending Options for $5-$20M businesses with Stephen Speer
How to Buy a Business that Needs You with Jason Condie
Robert Graham and Juan Ruiz - Examples of Multimillion Dollar Deals
5 Ways to Free Up Cash Flow in Inventory Business - Matt Putra
Mike Finger - 4 Successful Exits, Unique Acquisitions
What Makes a Good Seller
Online Tricks to Old School Business: Interview with Matt Blackwelder
Jared Zemp Interview - Buying 18 Businesses in 18 Months (Part 1)
Buying a Commercial Janitorial + Hiring a GM from Day 1 with Jordan Inman and James Maxwell
Lessons learned on 100's of Acquisitions with Jeremy Harbour - Go Do Deals
Funding an Acquisition between $200-$400k
Businesses for Sale - Local Home Health Care and Online Pet
How to Buy a SBA Business with an Investor - Thread by Clint Fiore
eCommerce Business for Sale - Low Multiple
4 Years to $5M Exit in the Solar Industry with Ryan Wallace
Business Search Pitfalls from over 200 Searchers with Chelsea Wood
Change the Terms, Not the Price
The Business Search and Deal Structure with Robert Graham
Buying Foundries Across America - Reg Zeller
Signing a Personal Guarantee
How to Buy a Local Health Foods Store with Andrew Noel
Why Buy A Profitable Online Business Instead Of Starting One with Ryan Condie [Part 1]
From Software Sales to Buying an Insulation Business with Damon Chlarson
Patel Motel Cartel - Why are 70% of Motels Owned by Indians?
Leaving the Corporate World to Start a Franchise and then Buy a Water Softener Business - Brent Parker
Breaking Into a New Industry + How 1 Cold Call Changed the Next 20+ Years with Chase Harmer
Gamal Codner Sold his Business Earlier this Year
Joel Reichert Finds, Analyzes and Buys Another eCommerce Brand
A few Basics around Crypto, NFTs, Web3 with Ty Roney
Stable Customers + Stable Employees Can Weather Nearly Any Storm | Brian Johnson
Buyer Market Conditions + Selling Multiple eCommerce Businesses | Ethan Alexander
How to Get Health Insurance as an Entrepreneur - Jason Ferguson Interview
From a $3M Acquisition to $88M Sale in 8 years in Aerospace - Jordan Law
Mushfiq Sarker - 150+ Websites Acquisitions - Specific Deal Dive
Vectrum Graphics - This small business is for Sale to listeners...Right now…
Buying over 300 Websites since 2004 - Michael Bereslavsky
Shaylan Hurley on Quitting his job and Buying 2 Companies in the last 2 Months
Jayson Lowe - Why Pressure is a Privilege and Managing Multiple Companies at Once
What is the Story with Add-Backs?
The 4 Pillars of Value for an Acquisition
Jim Oliver - What is Infinite Banking and How to Buy Assets (Businesses) With It
Keeping Your Day Job While Buying an Online Business + Exit - Jennifer Anderson Interview
Evaluating eCommerce Acquisition Metrics with Matt Putra
Can I Buy a Business with No Money Down? + Other Common Question with David C Barnett
7 Business Purchases in 10 years - Walker Deibel Interview - Author of Buy Then Build
How the Wealthy View Money - Accumulation VS Utilization - Stephanie Walter
Income and Wealth Multipliers - How They Work for You or Against You
Real Business - Due Diligence Deep Dive with Elliott Holland
Listener Deep dive in finding off Market Deals - Manufacturing
Steve Ressler - Investing in Over 25 Search Fund Deals
Cameron Jarman and Sean Huntington Sell Their eCom Business After 5 Years
3 Business Listings I'm Looking at Right Now
From Searcher to CEO with Lisa Forrest
5 Things I learned as a Broker to Stand Out as a Buyer
Jesse Safir Buys a Business and It Wasn't All Rainbows and Glory
Sam Bass - Intersection of Operators and Capital - ChiefOperators.io
John Hammond Bought a Business While Working Full Time
How to Buy a Shopify App with Henry Johnson
How Does Disney Own ~40% of Hollywood?...Acquisitions.
Why SMB's Are Barely Away From Falling Off a Cliff - David C Barnett - Buying, Selling, Brokering, Deal Making
Tyler Gillespie (2 Exits) - Building Your Business to Sell + Productized Services
SBA Loans, Online Deals, Offline Deals - Industry Updates
Dave Lowell - How to Run Your Own Race and Define What Your Business Means to You
Elliott Holland - What He Has Found Through Due Diligence on 100's of Companies
How to Buy Businesses While Keeping Your Day Job - Ujwal Velagapudi - Interview
Joe Valley - The EXITpreneur Playbook
Why Do People Sell Their Businesses?
Trevor Ewen - Searcher, Engineer, and Technical Deal Analysis
Ken Greene - The Engineer of Finance
Mid-Deal Update - Jen Anderson
Kyberlight - What You Learn About Your Company When Putting It Up For Sale
Josh Kim Bought 3 Businesses by Age 20 (SBA Loans for $2.5M)
Luke Hohmann Started a Business Because of a War + His Exit
Jacob Erdei Went from Carpet Cleaning to Computer Repair to Buying Companies
Simon Stock - Building a Business, Exiting and Investing Full Time in Stocks for Passive Income
How to Find a Business Partner
Lisa Forrest + 30 Years of SBA Lending + Deal Structures
Freddy Lansky - Building/Selling His 7-Figure eComm Brand + Searching for an Acquisition
Jenn and Ryan - State of the Market
Will Taylor Jr. Joined a Gym and Then Bought it
We Hired a CEO / GM for Our Acquisition
Tactical Ways to Find a Business for Sale
Matt Remuzzi (CapForge) - Evaluating the Books During Due Diligence
Peter Lohmann - Quitting Your Day Job + Buying 2 Competitors + 40% Growth Overnight
Kevin Oh - 5+ Years Building FE International and Brokering 100's of Deals
Connor Gross - 1st Exit Before College Graduation + 2 More Exits in 2020
Kevin McArdle - SureSwift Capital - How to Buy 39 Companies in 5 years
Greg Elfrink - Empire Flippers Capital
The Business Acquisition Search - Joe Quinn is in the Middle of it
Copper Pearl Story - Joel Sold Copper Pearl to Tyler - Double Interview
What We've Learned After 6 Months - Spencer and I Give a Short Update on the Podcast and our Business Acquisition
Ray Drew - SBA Lending Expert Dives Into the Latest SBA Incentives
Jesse Randall Interview - Real Deals, Entrepreneurial Finance and Seller-Based Financing is a High Bar
2 Listings That Caught My Eye Right Now
Interview with Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, World's Largest Marketplace for Digital Assets
Shaylan Hurley on Quitting His Job and Buying 2 Companies in the Last 2 Months
Chris Younger - Buying 27 Companies in 24 Months
Mushfiq - The Website Flip - Buying Over 175 Websites in 10 years
Entrepreneur Desert After Leaving My Day Job + 2 Listings I Like Right Now
2 Businesses for Sale...Right Now...
Business Update, Podcast Update for New Listeners, Deal Update
Raul Hernandez - Author of Productive Profits + How to Get Clear so your Business Works for You
Andrew Gazdecki - Founder of MicroAcquire - Selling His SaaS Business to Crypto Startup to Launching a Marketplace
Small vs. Large - Same Amount of Work, Different Upsides, Different Downsides
Due Diligence Tip - How to Use the Due Diligence Process to Hire and Evaluate Hires
Sam Whitney Stumbles Upon a Great Business AND Doesn't Quit His Day Job
Chatting with my Childhood Best Friend - Determine the Business Size, Problems, Lifestyle
Mike Hansen Bet On Himself and Bought a Business...After Listening to the Podcast
Everything You Need to Know About SBA Loans - Stephen Speer
From 16 Restaurants to 7-Figure Ecommerce Brands with VA's - Matt Yahes Interview
Buying Businesses Has Rules, Just Know When and Which to Throw Out the Window
Luke Zimmerman on Acquiring a West Coast Careers + Coming out of the Pandemic Stronger than Ever
Codie Sanchez - From Journalist to VC to Acquisitions: Buying Businesses and Unique Partnerships
Business Acquisition Update #2
Why Will 2021 Be Different Than 2020? Pick a Tree and Find a Mentor
My Quick Analysis On a Twitter Thread Between Industry Giants - Zavier Helgesen and Brent Beshore
Buying Cash Flowing Assets...It's Kinda What We're All After
Tyler X Bought 2 Businesses - 1 Flopped, 1 Was 2 Months Ago
Jake Knight Bought a Great, Local Business This Year
4 Businesses I'm looking at Right Now
When and How to Submit a Letter of Intent (LOI)
Someone Hit Me Up with Their Business and My Sister-In-Law IS BUYING IT!
Should I Make a Bunch of Money or Learn a Skill Set to Acquire a Company?
What Are You Bringing to the Table?
Abundance Going Into 2021
Our Acquisition Update #1
2021 Vision + Bucket List - Trav Bell Interview
Turkeys and Risk...Life Is Good Till It's Not
Business Valuation Expert - Ashley Micciche Interview
Interview with a 3-Year Business Searcher - Spencer Montgomery
Actual Financial Numbers of an SBA Loan
Finally Bought a Company. Now What?
We Bought a Company - The Tell All...Soap Opera Style… (Part 2)
We Bought a Company - The Tell All...Soap Opera Style… (Part 1)
Why I'm buying a Business (and Not Just One)
What to Look For in Amazon FBA businesses - Ty Roney Interview
Signing a Personal Guarantee
Should I buy a House/Real Estate or a Business?
SMB Automation + Selling His App to a Competitor - Jed Wood Interview
4 Online Business Listings I'm Looking At
Mailbox...How Much Money Should I Be Willing To Lose?
Measuring Yourself as an Entrepreneur - Spencer Fireside
How to Save a Lot of Money When Selling Assets - Brett Swarts Interview
3 Local Businesses for Sale
Nikora Called Up 2 Local Competitors After Listening to an Episode
5 Businesses I'm Looking at Right Now (4 local, 1 online)
How We Got to 700 Retail Stores in 12 Months in a Candy Startup
Buying an Online Business with Jaryd Krause
Buying Multi-Family with Anthony Scandariato
Buying an Online Business, Growing it and then Exit - Jennifer Anderson Interview
Podcast Update - Where Are We Today?
Clarifying My Thinking and Teaching Myself Through this Podcast
Getting Out of the Short-Term Loop Survival Cycle as an Entrepreneur with Training
Buying a Local Business in the Worst Recession - Casey Johnson Interview
Deals I'm Looking at #6 + Help Me With My Site
Where and How to Find Local Businesses for Sale
4 Years to $5M Exit - Ryan Wallace Interview
1-Way Doors vs. 2-Way Doors
Partnership Agreements - Spencer and I Created Our Own
My House Hit By a Tree – NEW PODCAST GOAL – 10 Listeners to Buy a Business By End of 2020
Stuck? Do this
Choosing a Business is Choosing Which Problems you Want to Solve
How to make $500k in 4-5 years
Listener Puts an Offer on a Deal / Update on My Deal #3
Nothing to Do with Buying a Company But It's Everything to Do with Buying a Company
Online Deals I'm Seeing Right Now
How to Reach Out to Owners Directly to Buy Their Company
Raleigh Williams Interview - Selling His Entertainment Business
Ask for Money, You get Advice. Ask for Advice, You get Money
Latest Insights on my Deal and Due Diligence
How to Buy a Company with a Job and Kids
Song Pettus Dominates the Search and Buys a Stellar Company
Frustrations of Searching for a Business to Buy
Small Deals vs Big Deals
Due Diligence - How to Reduce Costs Until You Know the Deal is Done
Stock vs Asset Purchase
Update on My Deal #2 - Next Steps of Due Diligence / Complementary Skills with your Partner
Last Month - I almost QUIT looking for a business
Due Diligence Well
I'm Under LOI! + Find Under-Utilized Assets
From a $3M Acquisition to $88M Sale in 8 years - Jordan Law Interview
Cyber Security for SMB's + Secret Tunnels in Las Vegas + Niche-Based Roll Up Strategies - Interview with Rick Jordan
Darren Neilson - OrangeTheory Fitness and Franchise Interview
Darren Neilson Interview - Acquisition Lawyer
3 Biggest Reasons on How You Fail When Looking for a Company to Buy
Buying and Holding, then Selling
Uncomfortable Conversations with Yourself: Can you sleep at night if you owe the bank $1M?
Online Tricks to Old School Business - Interview with Matt Blackwelder
Think Like an Investor, Not an Operator
I Put an Offer on a Business!
Don't Learn Everything. For Now, Understand Cash Flow and Competitive Landscapes
Building His Gyms and a Successful Exit to Bankruptcy with Scott Aaron
Franchises - Good or Bad? My Ramblings on Businesses in a Box
How I Wasted 2 Months at the Beginning on a Company
Issues and Never-Ending Work Tied to Buying a Business
Buy vs. Build
How Much Information Can You Gather From the Seller Before/After LOI?
Glenn Molin Interview - He Has Built, Bought and Sold Several Businesses
Jared Zemp Interview - Buying 18 Businesses in 18 Months (part 2)
What My Day-to-Day Looks Like During My Search
What Type of Business is Right For You?
Interview with Garry McIntosh
How Do You Raise Money For a Down Payment For an Online Business?
Deals I've Seen #5 SELLER FINANCED! NO MONEY DOWN!
You Make Money Selling Businesses, Not Running Them
Boom - I Got a 3-Star Review!
Deals I've Seen #4
Month 2 Review - What I've Learned So Far
Should I Buy this Small Business and Cancelling Out Advice
Current Market Thoughts During COVID_19
Deals I've Looked At So Far #3
Hitting a Brick Wall
Lessons on Selling a Company for Business Buyers
I Made 2 Offers on Businesses Yesterday
NOT FLIPPING! You Can't Flip Businesses Like a House
Month 1 Review - What I've Learned So Far
Stephen Walter Interview - Lawyer and Deal Maker
Deals I've looked At So Far
How to Fund Your Search
Direct Deal Flow vs Broker Deal Flow
Local Business Broker Interview - Jeremy Neven - How to Network and Use Local Brokers
3 Stories of Executed Deals
Income and Wealth Multipliers - They Work For or Against You
Where to Find Businesses for Sale
Narrowing Down My Criteria for My Business Acquisition Search
Why I'm Buying a Business
Welcome to Let's Buy a Business