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Cheryl Ham - Building A Craft & Subscription Business To +$1M Revenue
Cheryl Ham has built Hypnotic Yarn into a +$1M revenue business with 28% net profit margin and 80% of revenue on a subscription basis. She was an amazing story of tryi...
Devin Wanzor - Lessons Buying and Selling 10 Businesses
Devin Wanzor has bought and sold more than 10 businesses. He joins the podcast to share his journey from being an SBA lender to being part of a sign manufacturing roll...
Chis Edwards - Buying, Growing, and Selling A Flooring Business
Chris Edwards recently sold his flooring business in Steamboat, Colorado. He bought the business just 3.5 years prior then quickly grew revenue 50% and grew EBITDA 100...
POV Husband - Buying Restaurants, Real Estate & Content Creation
'POV Husband' is a genuine, funny follow on TikTok and Instagram. Prior to becoming a content creator he worked in banking and bought a business to escape his 9-5. He ...
Matt Cafrelli - From CPA To Home Services HoldCo
Matt Cafrelli left a stable career in accounting to dive into the riskier world of acquisition entrepreneurship. He and his partner created a HoldCo to buy some servic...
Jesus Montelongo - Inspiring Story Of Growing Longhill Contracting to +$2.7M EBTIDA
Jesus started Longhill Contracting 7 years ago doing drywall and paint contracting for home builders and multifamily developers. They've grown organically very quickly...
Mike Pedro - Scaling & Selling A Med Spa Group Platform
Mike Pedro and Danielle Pedro started MD Esthetics med spa in 2018. They've grown quickly to 13 locations and $2.5M EBITDA through acquisitions and brand new locations...
Johannes Hock - Leaving Private Equity Career To 10x DFW Turf
Johannes Hock left private equity early in his career with the aim to build wealth faster through an exit after buying a business. In 2022 he bought DFW Turf and he's ...
Mike Botkin - Massive Landscaping Rollup & Exit Within 2 years
Mike Botkin is an incredible story of what's possible in the small to mid sized acquisitions space. He left a great job to buy a very small $780k revenue residential l...
Ryan Bakke - Quickly Scaling a CPA Firm
Ryan Bakke has built Tax Strategy 365 very quickly and his profit margins are 20-30% better than most similar tax firms. This also makes it difficult to place a value ...
Jordan Evans - Buying The Family Business and Scaling to $12M
Jordan Evans bought his parents small language services business and has grown it very quickly to $12M revenue. He discusses how they've growth through organic growth ...
Baird Kleinsmith - Building a +$28M Storage Portfolio & LatAm Staffing Firm
Baird Kleinsmith loves to say he bought a few 'crappy little self storage' businesses. The reality is within 3 short years he took massive action and calculated risk t...
Jeff Toren - Top Franchise Entrepreneur Shares Highs and Lows
Jeff Toren owns two franchise concepts in Philadelphia - 7 KitchenTuneUp locations and 2 iLoveKickBoxing locations. He's been the #1 franchisee for sales in KitchenTun...
Alex Forbes - To Scale? Or Sell His Custom Cabinetry Business?
Alex Forbes has built Lane17 Custom Cabinetry to +$1.5M revenue. They have great sales momentum and are really hitting their stride in ops to be able to keep scaling, ...
Craig Hausz - Are Accounting Firms or Wealth Management Firms More Valuable?
Craig Hausz has grown a fantastic accounting firm and wealth management firm, CMH Advisors, with his wife Michelle. They've recently landed on the Inc5000 list for all...
Austin Linney - Crazy HVAC Acquisition Rollercoaster
Austin Linney shares a wild, winding journey of buying an HVAC business that involves huge risk, shady characters, and quickly growing it by +300% within 2 years. Aust...
Lauren Coleman - Turning Motel Acquisitions Into Development and Hospitality Brands
Lauren Coleman is a powerhouse entrepreneur, designer, and mom. She's bought and renovated two motels in Colorado, and has plans for more. Her holding company, The Sur...
Dustin Keller - Inspiring Rollup of Auto Repair and Real Esate
Dustin Keller bought a small auto repair business at 19 in Columbus, Ohio. Since then he's grown Alpha Automotive to 9 locations through acquisitions and organic growt...
Peter Lohmann - Could he be tempted to sell his property management business soon?
Peter Lohmann has built a great property management business in Columbus, Ohio that does nearly $3M in revenue and only takes 15 hours/week of his time these days. We ...
Alan Pentz - A Clear Vision For A Big Exit
Alan Pentz has grown his government contracting business to $35M in revenue. It hans't been easy and he's stalled out at some previous stages. But he has his sights on...
All Alaska Outdoors - How do you value this incredible fishing lodge and real estate?
Dr. Bob Ledda has built an incredible fishing lodge in Alaska, All Alaska Outdoors. The world class fishing, bear viewing, and remote access has made them famous - as ...
Eversite with Joe & Rob Benson - A Business Model Buyers Love
On this episode of Inspired Or Acquired we have the Eversite founders. Joe Benson and Rob Benson have been in digital marketing for +15 years. They're created Eversite...
Josh Hall - Josh Hall - Making Web Designer Pro To A Sellable Asset
Josh Hall successfully sold a web design agency in 2020. Since then he's been creating podcasts, courses and community to help other web designers grow their business....
Bryant Suellentrop Discusses Selling Part of His Company
Bryant Suellentrop has quickly built a great recruiting agency, Elevate and Delegate, for US companies to hire team members in the Philippines. Clint Fiore gives a val...
Kriss Berg - 7 Figure Profits DTC Business & Car Washes
Kriss Berg, aka Car Wash Guy on X, has two incredible businesses. His online supplement business drives 7 figures of profit per year, and his car wash businesses elimi...
Valuing Nolan Gore's Landscaping Business Today and 5 Years Out
Nolan Gore runs a landscaping business in Austin that's in the top 25% for top line revenue. We discuss his recent acquisition of another landscaping company, why he p...
Sam Leslie Shares Debating Selling His Plumbing Company
Sam Leslie, @samtleslie on X, bought a plumbing business in Boulder, CO a few years ago. He shares the roller coaster he's been on as operator wanting to sell, then cr...
Would Brian Beers sell or hold is $5M EBITDA Midas franchise group?
Brian Beers joins to breakdown how he's grown to +33 Midas locations and +$5M of EBITDA. Clint Fiore gives a current valuation of the business, and we ask Brian if he'...