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Ep. 108 Lessons from Home Depot's Acquisition of a $100 Million Juggernaut Blinds.com
Jay Steinfeld started selling blinds online in 1993. The e-commerce pioneer went on to build Blinds.com into a $100 million category killer before Ho…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 107 Negotiation Secrets From Three Exits
Dan Martell started Spheric Technologies to help Fortune 500 companies build website portals, an emerging business back in 2004. Within four years, M…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 106 Cashing Out of the Oil Business
Terry Lammers took over the family oil wholesaling business in 1991. By 2010, Tri-County Petroleum was selling $42 million worth of gas and oil, when…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 105 Why Did This $3MM Company Sell For 5X Revenue?
Brian Ferrilla started Resort Advantage in 2006 to help casinos adhere to new anti-money laundering laws. Criminals were laundering money through cas…
8 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 104 The Other Reason Owners Decide to Sell
In 2012, Randy Ambrosie was hired to run 3Macs, a Montreal-based wealth management firm with $4 billion in assets under management at the time.
8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 103 The Acquisition of the Company Behind Chicago Bulls Sunglasses
If you own Chicago Bulls sunglasses—or sunglasses from just about any other NBA team—you owe your eyewear to Jason Bolt.
8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 102 The Downside Of Being Upfront With Employees
In 2011 Josh Holtzman, the founder and CEO of American Data Company, gathered his employees into a conference room to announce "Fifteen Cubed", a com…
8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 101 The Doer vs. The Deal Maker
Entrepreneurs can be categorized into two groups. On one hand, you have the doers. These are the people who organically grow a business over time. Th…
8 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 100 How a Vision Board Drove One Owner to Sell
A few weeks ago, Shaun Oshamn sold iSupportU, a Colorado-based IT support business. Oshamn started the business at the age of 32 and knew he wanted t…
8 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 99 Why Hitting $10MM In Annual Revenue Matters
Jill Nelson built Ruby Receptionists, a call answering service, into an $11MM business when she met with an investment banker who told her the techno…
8 years, 6 months ago