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Ep 229 How To Do Less While Making More Mar 27, 2020

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Aater Suleman co-founded an IT services company called Flux7 in 2013, built it to 70 employees and sold it in 2019 to NTT DATA, the Fortune 500 IT giant.

Ep 228 3 Reasons Bollé Sunglasses Acquired SPY Optics Mar 20, 2020

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The action sports business is fuelled by big brands which is why, when SPY Optics built a style popular with irreverent teens, eyewear bemouth Bollé decided they had to own them.

Ep 227 Why Cracker Barrel Paid $36 Million For Maple Street Biscuit Company Mar 13, 2020

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When Scott Moore's job as a VP at Winn-Dixie was eliminated in 2012, he decided to start a restaurant with his friend Gus Evans in Jacksonville, Florida. They called it The Maple Street Biscuit Company and offered what they refer to as "comfort food with a modern twist."

Ep. 226 The Inside Story Of Elsevier's $50.6 Million Acquisition Of 3D4Medical.com Mar 06, 2020

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Back in 2004, John Moore started 3D4Medical.com, a company that created three-dimensional models of the human body, photographed them and licensed the images to textbook publishers. When the Great Recession hit, Moore's business took a turn, and he realized he needed to re-invent the company.

Ep 225 How To Scratch Your Itch Feb 27, 2020

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Arvid Kahl and Danielle Simpson were living together in Berlin when Kahl noticed his partner struggling to complete feedback reports about the students to whom she was teaching English as a second language.

Ep 224 Inside Shutterstock's $65 Million Acquisition of FlashStock Feb 21, 2020

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Grant Munro started FlashStock in 2013 to help big companies produce content (photos, videos) for advertising campaigns. In 2015, Instagram exploded, and online marketers became desperate for more content, which helped fuel Munro's business from a handful of employees in 2014 to more than 100 in 2017. That's about when Munro agreed to sell FlashStock to Shutterstock for $65 million.

Ep 223 Built to Sell News Pura Vida Acquired For $75 Million ++ Feb 14, 2020

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Griffin Thall and Paul Goodman, two Southern California friends traveling through Costa Rica on a post-college graduation trip in 2010, crossed paths with two bracelet artisans, Jorge and Joaquin, who were living in poverty. Jorge and Joaquin made beautiful, colorful handmade bracelets that seemed to capture the essence of their journey. Thall and Goodman asked the artisans to make 400 bracelets to take home with them.

Ep 222 How Nick Gray Sold Museum Hack Feb 07, 2020

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Nick Gray built Museum Hack, a company that offers fun museum tours in major cities, to almost 3 million dollars in annual revenue when he had an idea.

Ep 221 When To Bring In Someone To Run Your Company Jan 31, 2020

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Pathfinder Health offered software to therapists helping patients with Autism. The company founder was creative, but the company had reached a plateau.

Ep 220 3 Ways To Immunize Yourself From The Dangers Ahead.mp3 Jan 24, 2020

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In the last two weeks, we've seen a passenger jet shot out of the sky. A super-bug has emerged in Asia. A bun fight in the democratic primaries which will look like a schoolyard tussle compared to the bare-knuckle cage match we're about to witness in the race to become — or remain — the leader of the free world.

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