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Episode 104 - Building Your Business to Sell it & Navigating an Acquisition with a Large Company with Mike Ugino of SellBrite
Published 6 years, 1 month ago
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Mike Ugino is the CMO and co-founder of Sellbrite a SaaS platform for marketplace sellers. Sellbrite was recently acquired by GoDaddy. In this episode we breakdown how Mike and his business partner Brian approached building the company with selling it in mind. We also talk about what the acquisition process was like including saying no to GoDaddy initially. In this episode we uncover some golden ideas for scaling and exiting your business including:
- How constraints lead to creativity
- What building it to sell means and looks like
- Hitting plateaus and how to grow again
- How to know if a deal is right and saying “no” when it isn’t….even if it means turning down GoDaddy
- How to keep your culture when you sell