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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Tom Gilroy (@TomG_GKG) to talk about insurance. We talked about the role of an insurance broker, how to be proactive and minimize claims and risks, how to structure a deal, the different types of insurance you should be looking at, and much more.
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Show Notes:
(00:00) - Intro
(1:09) - Microacquire
(3:02) - Tom Gilroy Insurance Broker
(4:35) - Insurance Broker vs Insurance Carrier: What should I expect from each?
(6:22) - When do I need to call someone to assess me on Insurance?
(8:15) - What should a buyer expect from an insurance broker as a customer? How does the process work?
(12:05) - How do you interact with the lawyer and the buyer?
(14:20) - Let’s talk about gap analysis: What are the major areas you’ll be looking at?
(16:44) - Best practices to minimize claims? Can you find out which losses have occurred?
(20:48) - How does special insurance work?
(22:47) - The rating review: Why do sellers lose money and how could they avoid it?
(25:06) - Walk us through insurance fraud, risks & examples.
(30:00) - How does the universe of insurance brokers work? How can I find a good broker?
(32:40) - Is geographic location important? Is size important? How?
(36:10) - Representation & Warranty Insurance: How does it work & who is it helpful for?
(43:01) - Connect with Tom
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#96 From W-2 to Business Owner - Patrick Dichter tells us how to cold reach seller and we discuss 2 Deals
#92 Wait... what? You laid-off 90% of your staff?!? - Pete Erickson joined us for an exciting WarStories episode!
#87 Yelp is not evil! Building a business using digital CAC - Featuring Johnny Robinson from Orange Window Cleaning
#79 What do Investors want? - Dig into an investor’s mind with Bradford Hardin
#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley), and Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) are joined by Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) to discuss 2 awesome deals: A Coin Laundromat & an accounting practice. We dig into the Laundromat business: valuing assets, operations insights, and what to look for. What makes a good or a bad CPA deal? What is the segmentation around this kind of firm?
Tune in!
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Show Notes:
(01:00) - Cloudbookkeeping.com
(02:29) - Codie Sanchez Intro
(06:00) - What does your portfolio look like today?
(12:08) - Deal 1: High Volume Coin Laundromat for Sale
(14:58) - What do we think about it? Is the RE included package relevant?
(19:22) - What is the typical lifespan of one of these machines? How do we understand its value?
(20:56) - The 3 important things to look for in a Laundromat Deal
(21:42) - How can we forecast repair costs?
(25:29) - Are we going to find distressed companies for sale?
(28:47) - Can you raise prices? Where can you outcompete other players?
(34:05) - Do we like it? How can we make it work?
(39:10) - Deal 2: An accounting firm for sale
(42:06) - What do we think about it?
(46:04) - What is the segmentation around these kinds of firms?
(48:40) - What should you ask yourself before buying this business?
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Links:
* https://contrarianthinking.co
* https://unconventionalacquisitions.com/
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fI3kxC-ewZ6ZXEYgznM7g
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#86 Rocketship your business with... Twitter?! - JK Molina gives a Twitter Masterclass
#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Patrick Dichter (@patrickdichter) to talk about how he went from working in sales to acquiring his own accounting firm. We talked about 2 deals, a cloud accounting firm and a marketing company. Patrick used e-mail cold reaches during his search and shares his process to maximize outreach, why he decided on an accounting firm, and more.
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Show Notes:
0:50 - Microacquire
2:48 - Intro - Patrick Dichter
4:34 - Why did you transition from a W-2 employee to a searcher?
6:17 - How was your search process?
7:31 - What was your strategy to find a deal
8:38 - Who is running the operation today?
9:45 - How to cold reach potential sellers through e-mail? - Applying sales experience to a search
11:16 - What would you do differently to improve your response rate?
12:34 - Deal 1: A cloud bookkeeping accounting firm
15:07 - What’s interesting about this Deal?
17:12 - What are profit margins typically for these companies?
18:43 - How do you think about the cyclicality of start-ups as a customer?
19:59 - Yellow flags on this deal
23:41 - How do we think about different accounting firms and their services?
26:20 - How would you grow this business? What barriers do you see? Would you recruit overseas talent?
30:06 - Could we raise prices? Does this apply for an SBA Loan?
32:06 - Any other considerations? What about revenue mix & seasonality on the cash flows?
36:24 - Deal 2: Niche Digital Marketing Agency
39:27 - What is their business model? What would make it interesting?
41:44 - What happens with labor retention in these companies?
43:50 - Financials, growth concerns & due diligence focus
46:59 - How is the business-customer relationship on this Deal?
48:53 - Why is this so pricey? How would we structure this financially?
52:33 - Connect with Patrick
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#79 What do Investors want? - Dig into an investor’s mind with Bradford Hardin
#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) and Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) are joined by Kevin Lawrence and Brad Giles to talk about the Scaling Up methodology. We talk about:
What is Scaling up? What business is it useful for? Scaling Up vs. EOS, What is the role of a CEO? How to hire a CEO?
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Show Notes:
2:25 - Brad Giles & Kevin Lawrence Introduction
3:48 - What is Scaling Up?
6:18 - What business would benefit from the Scaling Up Framework?
10:00 - What kind of home-baked systems have you seen?
12:07 - The four decisions in Scaling-Up
14:25 - What are the pain points for an entrepreneur that makes a Business Owner search for an applicable system?
19:25 - What is the secret weapon of Scaling Up?
27:53 - What are predictable issues of Scaling?
33:24 - How do I know if I’m not scaling?
38:00 - The problem with autocratic leadership
42:22 - How do you hire a CEO?
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Links:
* Brad & Kevin’s Podcast ‘The Growth Whisperers’
* Kevin's book Your oxygen mask first - The importance of CEOs
* Made to Thrive - The five roles of a CEO
* https://lawrenceandco.com/
* https://evolutionpartners.com.au/
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#87 Yelp is not evil! Building a business using digital CAC - Featuring Johnny Robinson from Orange Window Cleaning
#86 Rocketship your business with... Twitter?! - JK Molina gives a Twitter Masterclass
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#79 What do Investors want? - Dig into an investor’s mind with Bradford Hardin
#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) & Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA), are joined by Steve Ressler (@steveressler) to talk about best practices when running a search, his search fund The Brydon Group, buying opportunities in the SMB space, what do the best search funders do, top CEO’s skills, and more.
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Show Notes:
(01:09) - Cloudbookkeeping.com
(2:20) - What do the more intelligent search funders do to pitch you?
(4:14) - What are good reasons to do a search fund?
(6:24) - How would you segment the search fund prototype?
(8:29) - How can you tell if a senior executive will be an operative one?
(11:22) - What do you look for in a searcher?
(14:14) - Tell us about the Brydon Group and what you’re doing
(19:40) - What’s the profile you look for? What type of deals do you look for?
(21:40) - How do you structure deals? What about the financing?
(25:08) - How do you think about debt for this kind of search? How does the equity side work?
(28:34) - What do you look for in a searcher?
(33:52) - Why do you go for $2 to $5 MM EBITDA range deals?
(36:47) - Where are the winds blowing in the private markets?
(38:45) - Do you think that Covid put pressure on the sellers, burnout syndrome, that kind of stuff?
(42:04) - What are the craziest things you’ve seen from searchers?
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Links:
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/ressler/
* https://www.brydon.com/for-searchers
* steve@brydon.com
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#86 Rocketship your business with... Twitter?! - JK Molina gives a Twitter Masterclass
#79 What do Investors want? - Dig into an investor’s mind with Bradford Hardin
#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) is joined by Brock Briggs (@BrockHBriggs), first-time searcher, to talk about 2 deals: A Florist company and a FedEx P&D Routes one. We talk about: operational aspects, financial modeling considerations, the trade-off of bringing a Limited Partner in, separating real estate from a business: when should you do it and how to limit your exposure as a buyer, and much more.
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Show Notes:
1:27 Microacquire
3:20 Brock’s background
5:08 What are you searching for Brock? Where are you in your search process?
6:48 Deal 1: A massive Florist for sale in CT
10:00 What do we think about this one?
12:14 What’s the potential upside from this deal? Where’s the ceiling? How does size relate to growth opportunities?
15:40 How should we think about the Customer Acquisition funnel? What should we consider from an operational side?
18:01 Don’t assume growth opportunities to be low-hanging fruits
20:07 How do we think about weddings as a revenue segment? What should we consider on the operational side?
24:40 Thoughts on seasonality and part-time labor hiring
28:28 Let’s talk about financing: How do we think about bringing a Limited Partner to your first deal? What collateral could you consider lending against?
34:27 Real estate and business. Should you keep them together or separate them? What other options are there for the buyer?
42:02 Deal 2: FedEx P&D Routes
46:45 What did you like about this one?
49:34 Operational considerations, what should we ask the seller? What debt are we assuming in this deal? What is the impact on the listing price?
54:17 Is it an owner-operator kind of business? What should we dig into from an operational perspective? What are growth opportunities?
56:56 Macro perspective thoughts? Why would I take on a business that FedEx refuses to operate?
1:00:25 How do first-time buyers can get comfortable with the risk of things going south?
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Links:
* http://Twitter.com/BrockHBriggs
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#90 Move over Elon - Here's what we'd do if we acquired Twitter
#87 Yelp is not evil! Building a business using digital CAC - Featuring Johnny Robinson from Orange Window Cleaning
#86 Rocketship your business with... Twitter?! - JK Molina joins for a Twitter Masterclass
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Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) hosts this incredible episode with special guest Peter Erickson (@smbpete). Pete walks us through his incredible journey, starting as an apprentice in the physical therapy business, going through his transition into a business owner, leadership challenges, layoffs, getting things thrown at him, overcoming disease to returning to a lost business, buying mistakes & what he’d do differently.
This is a packed episode, buckle up!
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Show Notes:
0:48 Cloudbookkeeping.com
1:59 Pete Erickson - The Summit Physical Therapy, CEO
3:34 Transitioning from employee to owner. How did you finance your acquisition?
4:24 You bought a Clinic. What happened next?
5:45 Let's dig into those pushbacks, why were they so pissed off? How did you handle the situation?
7:03 You mentioned maintaining people that weren't culturally fit for too long, what happened?
10:42 Wait what? You laid off 90% of the staff?!?
13:02 How does a captain handle a mutiny on the ship?
15:48 Buying too small & buying a job: What did you learn about the business size that you're going to buy?
17:56 One of the huge traps of buying a business
19:31 How to avoid a confusing marketing message?
22:24 Growing and developing team members: When should you do it in-house and when should you invest in training? - Peter Principle
24:48 How do you build processes and systems that help people to be autonomous?
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Links:
* https://www.thesummitpt.com/physicaltherapy
* Connect with Pete
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#86 Rocketship your business with... Twitter?! - JK Molina gives a Twitter Masterclass
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#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley), and Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) are joined by Mike Harrington (@MHarringtonNC) to talk about vacation rental management businesses, the industry, 2 Deals, the best criteria to choose a market, operation specifics, and more.
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* Great Lakes Region VR Company
* Colorado Ski-Market VR Company
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Show Notes:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:37) - Fleetio
(01:55) - Mike’s background, business & vacation rental management
(06:59) - Deal 1: 14 y/o Colorado Ski-country vacation rental management
(11:17) - Does the reported revenue makes sense? They report 49 employees: what can you tell us about employees in the VR industry? Labor availability, regulations, geographic limitations
(17:21) - What’s the correlation between business size and participative ownership?
(19:41) - What’s been your experience when acquiring a new business and transitioning from the previous owner in the industry?
(21:35) - What’s the implication of short-term rentals on revenue?
(25:02) - Do you place your company listings on booking platforms?
(28:08) - Deal 2: VR Management Firm
(36:18) - Could you add a complementary business?
(38:35) - What are the threats that you evaluate in this business?
(41:20) - Why are fees in vacation rental companies higher? What is the differential service provided?
(47:03) How would you go about Deal 2?
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#83 Can you grow a business in a shrinking market? Featuring baller @WilsonCompanies as a special guest!
#82 How Great Operators Win! How PE does it like pros - with Mark Brooks
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) and Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) discuss the Twitter deal at this special Episode. We talk about the financials, the value, cashflow expenses considerations, vested vs unvested stock treatment, both businesses’ performances within Twitter (Ads & B2B), pricing power potential, how we would turnover cost centers to profit sources, new product ideas, breaking out of the culture bubble, and much more!
We had a ton of fun recording this one, let us know what you think!
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Show Notes:
0:00 Intro
1:17 Deal numbers
3:19 What is Elon actually doing?
6:13 It isn’t closed yet: Timing & steps in this kind of deals
9:00 What is being bought? Take us through the financials Michael
13:04 Stock-based compensation considerations
14:59 Why aren’t they vomiting cash?
16:00 Twitter is actually 2 businesses: How do they perform?
18:15 Revenue Build: How do we make it grow faster? What’s changing on the operational side? What is the potential?
20:34 Let’s put the Private Equity hat on: What would we do?
22:31 Exploiting the monopoly pricing power
24:29 What’s happening with the advertisement rates? How does the ad engine work?
29:04 Monetize these new business lines: We got 4 to start with.
36:40 Billion dollar idea: Get into recruiting
39:57 Operational improvements: How do you reduce headcount organically? Why does moving the HQ make sense?
43:44 Let’s treat this as a growth asset
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#82 How Great Operators Win! How PE does it like pros with Mark Brooks
#48 Two Landscaping Businesses for Sale - Mike Botkin of Benchmark Group
Additional episodes you might enjoy:
#64 How to find the expected benchmarks and KPIs for your industry?
#67 I bought a business. Now what? Learn with us from an expert - Dzmitry Miranovi
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Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) is joined by Mehtab Bhogal (LinkedIn link) DTC eCommerce specialist to talk about distressed acquisitions & turnarounds, operations, capital structures, downsizing for quality, finding a business partner on Reddit, why makeup brands suck, and much more.
We discuss a Bankruptcy deal, BH Cosmetics, linked below.
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Acquisitions Anonymous Episode 89
Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Cloudbookkeeping.com
(2:09) Mehtab's introduction
(4:23) Why do you buy a business to downsize it? [Episode clip for wednesday]
(6:14) What is your general path after acquiring a business?
(7:21) What does the cap structure look like pre vs. post-close?
(10:23) How do you handle the Equity?
(15:39) Let's jump to the Deal: BH Cosmetics.
(18:14) Revenue trajectory
(21:19) What is a 363 auction?
(23:16) What does the process look like?
(24:17) What do you think about this deal from a diligence and structure perspective?
(26:52) How well do you know the business at the bidding stage?
(28:26) Let's say you give it a go, how do you decide what the proposal is going to be for lenders and equity holders?
32:00 DIP loan: Debtor in possession financing [Clip]
(32:43) What is the downside risk here? How does Karta add a layer of coverage?
(34:46) Let's take about the operation side: How do you start a turnaround?
(40:02) What are specifics about diligence for your company? Why are product teams so important?
(44:05) BH got purchased at $4Mio. Was it expensive?
(48:35) Tell us about the Return Profile, & how does it relate to equity value?
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Links:
* BH Cosmetics Deal Link
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Past guests on Acquanon include Nick Huber, Brent Beshore, Aaron Rubin, Mike Botkin, Ari Ozick, Mitchell Baldridge, Xavier Helgelsen, Mike Loftus, Steve Divitkos, Dzmitry Miranovich, Morgan Tate and more.
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#87 Yelp is not evil! Building a business using digital CAC | with Johnny Robinson
#82 How Great Operators Win! How PE does it like pros | with Mark Brooks
#88 Sellers Lie about the numbers?! | with Elliot Holland
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