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Ep 327 Calvin Johnson - Selling for Parts Mar 04, 2022

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Calvin Johnson built Lykki, an office supply company, to more than $7 million in annual revenue.

Johnson had two divisions, one had office kitchen supplies (e.g., coffee), and the other sold office supplies. The kitchen supplies business was more attractive to acquirers than the office supplies side, so Johnson decided to separate the divisions and sell them separately.

Ep 327 Calvin Johnson - Selling for Parts Mar 04, 2022

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Calvin Johnson built Lykki, an office supply company, to more than $7 million in annual revenue.

Ep 326 Robert Glazer - Inside the Mind of an Acquirer Feb 26, 2022

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Robert Glazer started an affiliate marketing agency called Acceleration Partners in 2007. Glazer never took outside capital and grew Acceleration to almost $28 million in sales before he sold a majority interest to Mountaingate Capital in 2020.

Ep 325 Robert Glazer - Why Robert Glazer Sold His $28 Million Agency Feb 19, 2022

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Ep 324 Sandy Hansen-Wolff - The Unexpected Exit Feb 12, 2022

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Sandy Hansen-Wolff was a newlywed when her husband of only a few months, Randy Hansen, was diagnosed with leukemia. The doctors told Randy that one in four patients in his position succumbed to the disease. The couple scrambled to deal with the diagnosis and what would happen to Randy's feed business, which was generating revenue of around $1 million, if he were to pass.

Randy died a few months later, leaving Sandy with little more than a handwritten list of his assets, including a heavily leveraged business.

Ep 323 Melissa Kwan - How to Know When Your Idea Has Legs Feb 04, 2022

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Melissa Kwan and her co-founder built Spacio, a company that helped real estate agents win and manage leads that come from hosting open houses.

Kwan built the company to roughly 100,000 agents using Spacio when a chance encounter at an industry conference led to an acquisition offer from HomeSpotter.

Ep 323 Melissa Kwan - How to Know When Your Idea Has Legs Feb 04, 2022

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Melissa Kwan and her co-founder built Spacio, a company that helped real estate agents win and manage leads that come from hosting open houses.

Kwan built the company to roughly 100,000 agents using Spacio when a chance encounter at an industry conference led to an acquisition offer from HomeSpotter.

Ep 322 Kate Field - What You Should Know Before You Pitch Your Company on Shark Tank (or Anywhere) Jan 29, 2022

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In 2013, Kate Field started The Kombucha Shop offering home-brew kits that people can use to make kombucha.

By 2018, the kombucha craze was in full swing and Field was invited to pitch her business on Shark Tank. Field asked for $350,000 in return for 10% of her company which was generating around $1.2 million per year selling kombucha kits. Field got an offer for $200,000 in cash and another $150,000 line of credit in return for 10% of her company from Barbara Corcoran and Sara Blakely, the Spanx founder who was a guest Shark that day.

Despite her success on television, a series of surprising events led Field to walk away from the Shark's offer and sell The Kombucha Shop the following year. This episode is a raw account of the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial journey.

Ep 321 David Darmanin - Built to Sell vs. Planning to Sell Jan 22, 2022

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David Darmanin co-founded Hotjar, a software company that helps website developers and owners understand how their users interact with the sites they build. Darmanin and his partners bootstrapped Hotjar to around $40 million in Annual Recurring Revenue before selling it in 2021.

Ep 320 David Perry - $380 Million for Knowledge Curated at the School of Hard Knocks Jan 14, 2022

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David Perry co-founded Gaikai, a video game company that enables popular games like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty to be played on just about any device.

Perry raised $50 million through three rounds of funding and sold Gaikai for $380 million to Sony.

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