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Mike Okhravi left a cushy tech career to buy a towing business & a flooring business — and within 30 days of each other.
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A fireside chat with veteran searcher & investor Kent Weaver recorded at the Self-Funded Search Conference in Dallas.
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Sean Moore looked at a handful of businesses, but a fine art gallery with over $1m SDE won the art collector's heart.
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John Hubbard returns to share how "chasing EBITDA over revenue" has benefited the trailer fabricator he bought in 2021.
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It CAN be done. Andrew Swiler acquired a SaaS business with $650k SDE using an SBA loan (and while living in Spain).
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Chandler Reed reflects on buying a project-based business in 2021, seeing sales soar, then crash, then surge again.
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Landon Mance bought a $1.7m tree business alongside a minority partner who's operated the business full-time from Day 1.
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Neil Finneran had worked in hedge funds & as a CFO when the opportunity to buy a pest control business presented itself.
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A year into his search Jesse Sunquist realized he needed to lower his SDE floor to find a business to buy in his market.
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George Vallone returns to share how he has grown revenue 3x in 2.5 years and laid a foundation for multi-city expansion.
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