Built to Sell Radio

By John Warrillow

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Built to Sell Radio is a weekly podcast for business owners interested in selling a business. Each week, we ask an entrepreneur who has recently sold a business why they decided to sell their business, what they did right and what mistakes they made through the process of exiting their business. Built to Sell Radio is the ultimate insider's guide to approaching the most important financial transaction of your life.

Episode Date
Ep 439 Selling Your Business? Why Nice Gets You More - with William Ury, Co-Founder of the Harvard Negotiation Program
Apr 26, 2024
Ep 438 Brian Dean, "SEO Genius", on Getting $5 Million for Backlinko, a One Employee Company
Apr 19, 2024
Ep 437 Escaping the Service Business Trap with John Rood
Apr 12, 2024
Ep 436 Turning Down a Quarter Billion Dollar Offer From State Farm with Payam Zamani
Apr 05, 2024
Ep 435 From Freelance Consult to 8-Figure Exit in Seven Years With Ned Macpherson
Mar 29, 2024
Ep 434 Sticky: How Jordan Van Schyndel Grew His Service Business to More Than 30 Employees Without Having Anyone Quit Before He Sold It
Mar 22, 2024
Ep 433 The Million Dollar Call with Alexx Leyva
Mar 15, 2024
Ep 432 The Acquisition Entrepreneur with Steve Divitkos
Mar 08, 2024
Ep 431 Dealmaker: Carl Allen on How to Sell Your Business to an Individual Investor
Mar 01, 2024
Ep 430 Building a Life After a 9-Figure Exit with Anastasia Koroleva
Feb 23, 2024
Ep 429 10 Times Revenue for a 9 Employee Company with Michael Lieberman
Feb 16, 2024
Ep 428 Adam Coffey on the Private Equity Playbook
Feb 09, 2024
Ep 427 Inside the Mind of a Service Business Acquirer with Jason Swenk
Feb 02, 2024
Ep 426 Inside the Mind of an Acquirer with Valsoft's Joe Khoubbieh
Jan 26, 2024
Ep 425 The Downside of Selling to Private Equity With Mark Zweig, 3 Time Inc 5000 Honouree
Jan 19, 2024
Ep 424 Basem Hanna on Getting $25 Million for TerrAscend
Jan 12, 2024
Ep 423 How Aaron Leibtag Got $15 Million for a 15-Employee Company
Jan 05, 2024
Ep 422 2023 End of the Year Special: Top 10 Strategies for Building the Value of Your Company and Punching Above Your Weight in a Negotiation to Sell
Dec 29, 2023
Ep 421 How to Create Recurring Revenue with Robbie Kellman Baxter
Dec 22, 2023
Ep 420 Hasard Lee on Thinking Clearly Under the Stress of Selling Your Business
Dec 15, 2023
Ep 419 CHRIS VOSS on Negotiating the Sale of Your Business
Dec 08, 2023
Ep 418 Selling a Service Business, Avoiding an Earn Out, Outperforming Industry Average Multiples, Rebutting a Lowball Offer and Going From Start up to Exit for a High Single Digit Multiple of EBITDA in Just 18 Months
Dec 01, 2023
Ep 417 Greg Romanzo on Hiring, Training, and Retaining Sales People in a Commoditized Business
Nov 24, 2023
Ep 416 Chip Conley on Selling the World’s Second Largest Boutique Hotel Chain, Coming Back From the Dead, Mentoring Airbnb Co-founder Brian Chesky and How to Find a New Purpose After You Sell
Nov 17, 2023
Ep 415 Jason Cohen on Starting Two Unicorns Worth More Than $1 Billion; Deciding When to Sell, the Freedom Line, Box Games and Whether It’s Better to Be Rich or King
Nov 10, 2023
Ep 414 Lessons From 3 Failed Attempts to Sell Greenpath and How a 7 X EBITDA Deal Finally Got Done
Nov 03, 2023
Ep 413 Turning Bad Dog Breath into a $2M + Business: Chad Maghielse's Guide to Amazon, Reviews, and Selling Your Company
Oct 27, 2023
Ep 412 How Jay B. Sauceda Built a $14 million Business and Sold it to Cart.com
Oct 20, 2023
Ep 411 Inside the Mind of an Acquirer with Bakari Akil
Oct 13, 2023
Ep 410 Fifty Percent Sooner, for 25% Less: How Mark Ferrier Grew his Marketing Agency to $2M EBITDA and Scored an 8-Figure Exit
Oct 06, 2023
Ep 409 Minority vs. Majority Partners with Mark Ferrier
Sep 29, 2023
Ep 408 Why Thomson Reuters Paid $124 Million for a $9 Million Business with Jon Coss, Founder of Pondera Solutions
Sep 22, 2023
Ep 407 Bootstrapping His Way to $23 Million Exit with Lloyed Lobo
Sep 15, 2023
Ep 406 Exit, Rest, Restart: Rob Walling on Navigating the Entrepreneurial Lifecycle
Sep 08, 2023
Ep 405 Betting It All to Build a $100 Million Outdoor Luxury Empire with Sarah Dusek
Sep 01, 2023
Ep 404 How Michia Rohrssen Sold Prodigy For 65x Revenue
Aug 25, 2023
Ep 403 Should You Hire a COO? with Casey Cavell
Aug 18, 2023
Ep 402 Fetching an 8-Figure Exit with Amman Ahmed
Aug 11, 2023
Ep 401 Capitalizing on the Shift From Bricks to Clicks with Chad Rubin
Aug 04, 2023
Ep 400 How Alex Macdonald Sold Velocity Black to Capital One for a Reported $297 Million
Jul 28, 2023
Ep 399 How to Teach Your Employees Your Secrets with TXG's Ian Fraser
Jul 21, 2023
Ep 398 Building to Sell: The Molzi Journey from Startup to Brainlabs Acquisition with Chris Mole
Jul 14, 2023
Ep 397 Inside 23andMe's $400 Million Acquisition of Lemonaid Health with Paul Johnson
Jul 07, 2023
Ep 396 Inside the Mind of an Acquirer with ASG’s CEO, Steve Reardon
Jun 30, 2023
Ep 395 How to Avoid Post-Sale Regrets: A Conversation with Dr. Sherry Walling
Jun 23, 2023
Ep 394 5 Lessons on Building to Sell Mark Wright Learned from Billionaire Alan Sugar
Jun 16, 2023
Ep 393 Inside the Mind of an Acquirer with Valtech’s Randy Woods
Jun 09, 2023
Ep 392 Inside Fidelity's $80 Million Acquisition of SkySlope with Tyler Smith
Jun 02, 2023
Ep 391 Riding the Wave of an Industry Roll Up with Miles Faulkner
May 26, 2023
Ep 390 Josh Abramson, founder of Vimeo, CollegeHumour.com and TeePublic on growing a fanatical following, avoiding an earn-out, mastering SEO, accelerating acquisitions and his $41 million exit
May 19, 2023
Ep 389 How to Create Sticky Customers with Lori Morton - Leverage strategic partnerships, sell to industry giants, position your company to attract acquirers, choosing the right acquirer
May 12, 2023
Ep 388 How to Create Repeat Customers Automatically with Gamal Codner - Increase the LTV of a customer, use reviews to drive value, systemizing your business, building a e-commerce brand, find your natural acquirers.
May 05, 2023
Ep 387 Selling a Service Business Without an Earn-Out with Brandon Lazar: Selling a service business without an earn-out; how squishy timelines kill deals, negotiating with sophisticated acquirers vs. first-time buyers, alternative ways to find the money
Apr 28, 2023
Ep 386 Understanding Your Acquirers BATNA with Susanne Klepsch - Know if you’re building a product or company, incite a bidding war, approach potential acquirers, structuring a winning earn-out, use market research to grow your business, mitigate your r
Apr 21, 2023
Ep 385 Inside the Mind of an Acquirer with Kevin McArdle: Holding company vs. PE, prepare to be acquired, prevent deterring an acquirer, enhance acquirer talks, counter PE discount tactics, decode valuation metrics
Apr 14, 2023
Ep 384 The Inside Story Behind P&G’s Acquisition of TULA Skincare: Uncover fresh opportunities, safeguard your idea, finance your startup, choose the right acquirer, the role partners play when selling, the downside of excessive growth.
Apr 07, 2023
Ep 383 How to Avoid Getting Trapped in a Low Valuation Industry: How Swag.com Founder Jeremy Parker Positioned His $30M Business as a Technology Company to Attract Industry Leader Custom Ink. Acquire a 7-figure domain for free, leverage blue chip clients,
Mar 31, 2023
Ep 382 How to Attract a Strategic Acquirer for Your Business: 5 Proven Strategies. How Stephanie Breedlove got 6 times revenue, insides Hubspot’s rationale for acquiring The Hustle, why Home Depot bought Blinds.com, why ContentSquare paid a truckload fo
Mar 24, 2023
Ep 381 How to Know When to Sell our Business: Inside Nasdaq’s Acquisition of Quandl. Lessons on Timing and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs with Tammer Kamel - Risks of taking VC money, compete with an industry giant, negotiate with a competitor, knowing w
Mar 17, 2023
Ep 380 How to Use Affiliate Marketing to Spike the Value of Your Business: How Kyle Scott Went From a Broke Philadelphia Sports Blogger Into a $12 Million Payday. Affiliate marketing, monetizing your audience, SEO vs. readability, merging with a competito
Mar 10, 2023
Ep 379 Market Value vs. Personal Value with Mac Lackey - FC Barcelona, piggyback on someone else’s brand equity, unorthodox negotiation techniques, shady tactic used by acquirers.
Mar 03, 2023
Ep 378 How to Keep More Equity by Getting Customers to Fund Your Growth with Premonition Founder, Brad Lorge - ARR vs. ACV, finding strategic acquirers, negotiation tips, fast-tracking an acquisition, considerations when rolling equity.
Feb 24, 2023
Ep 377 From Startup to Acquihire: One Founder's Journey with Rachel Elsts Downey
Feb 17, 2023
Ep 376 How to Get Your Employees to Act Like Owners with the Founder of Two Maids & a Mop, Ron Holt
Feb 10, 2023
Ep 375 Inside HubSpot's Surprising Acquisition of the Hustle with Founder, Sam Parr
Feb 03, 2023
Ep 374 How Tabarnapp Grew Its Value Ten-Fold in 24 Months with Derek Morin
Jan 27, 2023
Ep 373 Revolutionizing the Way We Plan Our Careers: Discover the Impact of Sokanu with the Founder, Spencer Thompson
Jan 20, 2023
Ep 372 Brighter Vision’s Niche Strategy Leads to $17.5 Million Acquisition with Perry Rosenbloom
Jan 13, 2023
Ep 371 From Dragon's Den Investment to $16.8 Million Acquisition – The Story of truLOCAL with Founder, Marc Lafleur
Jan 06, 2023
Ep 370 Scaling Your Business through Strategic Partnerships with Simon Penson
Dec 30, 2022
Ep 369 End of the Year Special: Top 10 Strategies for Building the Valuable of Your Company, Punching Above Your Weight in a Negotiation to Sell, and Feeling Happy After You Leave
Dec 23, 2022
Ep 368 How This Service Business Sold for Over 4-Times Revenue with Kelby Zorgdrager
Dec 16, 2022
Ep 367 Libsyn’s Acquisition of AdvertiseCast: The Tell-All with Trevr Smithlin and Dave Hanley
Dec 09, 2022
Ep 366 The Inside Story of Stripe’s Acquisition of Indie Hackers with Co-Founder Channing Allen
Dec 02, 2022
Ep 365 The Hidden Cost of Being a Hands-on Boss With Create & Cultivate Founder, Jaclyn Johnson
Nov 25, 2022
Ep 364 Is Your Best Customer Hurting Your Company’s Value? With Medpoint Founder, Chuck Crumpton
Nov 18, 2022
Ep 363 How to Get Your Employees to Care as Much as You - With Postmark Founder, Natalie Nagele
Nov 11, 2022
Ep 362 A Behind the Scenes Look at a Mini Roll Up - Joseph Marchell
Nov 04, 2022
Ep 361 Hacking Your Way to a $22 Million Exit – Nick Santora
Oct 28, 2022
Ep 360 Looking Smaller to Make Your Company Bigger - With Sendible Founder, Gavin Hammar
Oct 21, 2022
Ep 359 Inside the Mind of An Acquirer – Nathan Winch
Oct 14, 2022
Ep 358 Why Candy Banners Sold for a Mint – Tim Grassin
Oct 07, 2022
Ep 357 How Mike Winnet Sold His E-learning Company for Around 4-Times Revenue
Sep 30, 2022
Ep 356 A Regrettable Deal - Jason Bagley
Sep 23, 2022
Ep 355 Bootstrapping to a $200 Million Exit - With ProfitWell Founder, Patrick Campbell
Sep 16, 2022
Ep 354 One Company, Two 8-Figure Exits - With Peerfit Founder, Ed Buckley
Sep 09, 2022
Ep 353 Selling Your Business vs. Getting Acquired - With Avail Founder, Ryan Coon
Sep 02, 2022
Ep 352 How to Get Your Business to Run Without You - Jodie Cook
Aug 26, 2022
Ep 351 The Surprising Reason Ryan Kulp Sold Fomo
Aug 19, 2022
Ep 350 How to Time Your Exit in Any Economy
Aug 12, 2022
Ep 349 How to Avoid Seller’s Remorse - Rory Fatt
Aug 05, 2022
Ep 348 Selling Your Side Hustle - Jeremy Nagel
Jul 29, 2022
Ep 347 6 Things to Know Before Approaching an Acquirer - Touraj Parang
Jul 22, 2022
Ep 346 How this Service Business Sold for 3X Revenue - Timothy Armoo
Jul 15, 2022
Ep 345 Up in Smoke - Lorenzo de Plano
Jul 08, 2022
Ep 344 How to Make Your Email List Worth 7-Figures - Laura Roeder
Jul 01, 2022
Ep 343 One Bold Decision That Led to a 20X Growth in Revenue - Raman Sehgal
Jun 24, 2022
Ep 342 The Unicorn Exit - Haroon Mokhtarzada
Jun 17, 2022
Ep 341 Selling to a Publicly Traded Company - Tony Falkenstein
Jun 10, 2022
Ep 340 Selling for a Truckload - Josh Davis
Jun 03, 2022
Ep 339 The Lifeboat Exit - John Whiting
May 27, 2022
Ep 338 How This Service Business Got Almost 20 X EBITDA - Jonathan Shroyer
May 20, 2022
Could What Happened With Twitter & Elon Musk Happen To You?
May 13, 2022
Ep 337 Eddie Whittingham - Saying No To 7 Times Revenue
May 13, 2022
Ep 336 James Ashford - The Inside Story Behind Sage’s 8 Figure Acquisition of a 12 Employee Company
May 06, 2022
Ep 335 James Ashford - How to Sell A 12 Employee Company for 8-Figures
Apr 29, 2022
Ep 334 Paul Nielsen - From Product-Driven to Purpose-Driven
Apr 22, 2022
Ep 333 Built to Sell Intel - How to Turn Beta Users into Customers Plus 3 Other Stories
Apr 15, 2022
Ep 332 James Benham - The Clean Exit: 7X Revenue, No Earn-Out
Apr 08, 2022
Ep 331 Ben Tossell - Maker vs. Manager
Apr 01, 2022
Ep 330 Anna Maste - Bootstrapping a 2-Sided Market to a 7-Figure Exit
Mar 25, 2022
Ep 329 Sue Bryce & Craig Swanson - The 8-figure Expert
Mar 19, 2022
Ep 329 Sue Bryce & Craig Swanson - The 8-figure Expert
Mar 19, 2022
Ep 328 Built to Sell Intel - 4 Big Takeaways on Building the Value of Your Company
Mar 12, 2022
Ep 327 Calvin Johnson - Selling for Parts
Mar 04, 2022
Ep 327 Calvin Johnson - Selling for Parts
Mar 04, 2022
Ep 326 Robert Glazer - Inside the Mind of an Acquirer
Feb 26, 2022
Ep 325 Robert Glazer - Why Robert Glazer Sold His $28 Million Agency
Feb 19, 2022
Ep 324 Sandy Hansen-Wolff - The Unexpected Exit
Feb 12, 2022
Ep 323 Melissa Kwan - How to Know When Your Idea Has Legs
Feb 04, 2022
Ep 323 Melissa Kwan - How to Know When Your Idea Has Legs
Feb 04, 2022
Ep 322 Kate Field - What You Should Know Before You Pitch Your Company on Shark Tank (or Anywhere)
Jan 29, 2022
Ep 321 David Darmanin - Built to Sell vs. Planning to Sell
Jan 22, 2022
Ep 320 David Perry - $380 Million for Knowledge Curated at the School of Hard Knocks
Jan 14, 2022
Ep 319 Anthony Fracchia - How to Attract the Acquirer You Crave
Jan 07, 2022
Ep 318 Rafael Zimberoff - How to Sell a 12 Employee Company for $17 Million
Dec 31, 2021
Ep 317 Built to Sell Intel - How to Create a Bidding War Plus Three Other Lessons
Dec 17, 2021
Ep 316 Jon Claydon - 3 Ways to Play an Industry Roll-Up
Dec 11, 2021
Ep 315 Prantik Mazumdar - The Happy Exit
Dec 04, 2021
Ep 314 Josh Delaney - The $26 Million Dollar Man
Nov 27, 2021
Ep 313 Ben Kellie - From Elon Musk to Exit of His Own
Nov 20, 2021
Ep 312 Kevin Waldron - How to Build Your Company to Sell (Even if You Have No Plans To)
Nov 13, 2021
Ep 311 Nick Leighton - Getting Around Your Non-compete
Nov 06, 2021
Ep 310 Leona Watson - 3 Things to Consider Before Shopping Your Business
Oct 29, 2021
Ep 309 Built to Sell Intel - The Biggest Mistake Co-Founders Make, and 3 Other Lessons
Oct 23, 2021
Ep 308 Arleen & Ted Taveras - One Strategy Took Them From 12.5 to 16 times EBITDA
Oct 16, 2021
Ep 307 Pete Ingram-Cauchi - How iD Tech Went From the Verge of Extinction to a $200 Million Acquisition in 12 Months
Oct 08, 2021
Ep 306 Jay Gould - Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The (Real) Reason Jay Gould Sold Yashi for $33M
Oct 02, 2021
Ep 305 Andy Cabasso - Inside Uptime's 7-Figure Acquisition of JurisPage
Sep 25, 2021
Ep 304 Mehul Sheth - Punching Above Your Weight When It's Time to Sell
Sep 18, 2021
Ep 303 Paul Farrell - From Zero to $1.2 Million ARR Exit In 2 Years
Sep 10, 2021
Ep 302 Michael Kaplan - The Shotgun Breakup
Sep 04, 2021
Ep 301 Justin Adams - From Broke to Big Time Exit in Just 2 Years
Aug 27, 2021
Ep 300 Cheryl Contee - Cheryl Contee on Selling Attentive.ly
Aug 20, 2021
Ep 299 Built to Sell Intel - Turning the Tables on John
Aug 13, 2021
Ep 298 Michèle Hecken - Why “Off-Boarding” Is an Essential Ingredient in Building to Sell
Aug 06, 2021
Ep 297 Robert Hartline - The $4 Million Haircut
Jul 30, 2021
Ep 296 Ben & Ariel Zvaifler - The Inside Story of Petco’s Acquisition of Shark Tank-Featured PupBox
Jul 23, 2021
Ep 295 Nick Huber - Sweat Equity
Jul 16, 2021
Built to Sell Intel - July 2021
Jul 15, 2021
Ep 294 Cary Moretti - The Carve-Out Exit
Jul 09, 2021
Ep 293 Dr. Kristin Kahle - How One Founder Moved Her Multiple From 2 to 8 Times EBITDA
Jul 02, 2021
Ep 292 Jodie Cook - How to Sell a Service Business Without an Earn-Out
Jun 25, 2021
Ep 291 Sebastian Johnston - The Humble Yogi Sells His Business
Jun 18, 2021
Ep 290 Eytan Wiener - How to Turn a Distribution Company Into a Valuable Business
Jun 11, 2021
Special Edition - Built to Sell Intel - June 2021
Jun 08, 2021
Ep 289 Dave & Carrie Kerpen - The Bait & Switch
Jun 04, 2021
Ep 288 Shawn Finder - Finding the Middle Ground With an Acquirer
May 28, 2021
Ep 287 Mike Agugliaro - The Turnaround
May 21, 2021
Ep 286 Marc Elkman - The Good, the Bad (and the Ugly) Of Selling to Private Equity
May 14, 2021
Special Edition - Built to Sell Intel
May 10, 2021
Ep 285 Wes Mathews - Double an Offer, Without Turning off an Acquirer
May 07, 2021
Ep 284 - Built to Sell Radio Q&A Feature
Apr 30, 2021
Ep 283 Ben Leonard - How Amazon Became a Blessing and a Curse for Beast Gear
Apr 23, 2021
Ep 282 James Prebble - A Rembrandt in the Attic
Apr 16, 2021
Ep 281 Andrew Gazdecki - How a Cold Email to Apple’s Tim Cook Led to an 8-Figure Win
Apr 09, 2021
Ep 280 Darrell Lerner - The Surprising Story Behind PetSmart’s Acquisition of AllPaws
Apr 01, 2021
Ep 279 Jim Estill- 10 Things Most Celebrity Entrepreneurs Won't Tell You About Building a Business
Mar 26, 2021
Ep 278 Matt McGowan - One Bold Move That Can Make Your Company More Valuable
Mar 19, 2021
Ep 277 Frank Cianciulli - A $30 Million Bird in Hand
Mar 12, 2021
Ep 276 Jason Flick - The Story Behind Jason Flick's $100 Million Sale to WarnerMedia
Mar 05, 2021
Ep 275 Adii Pienaar - How a Simple Strategy Led to a 35% Higher Valuation for Conversio
Feb 26, 2021
Ep 274 Cesar Quintero - How to Sell When Everything Is Broken
Feb 19, 2021
Ep 273 Mike Malatesta - Re-Occurring Revenue vs. Recurring Revenue
Feb 12, 2021
Ep 272 Jon Morris - 6 Lessons From Selling Your Company to a Growth Equity Investor
Feb 05, 2021
Ep 271 Greg Alexander - How to Sell a 30-Person Consultancy for $162 Million
Jan 29, 2021
Ep 270 Pete Martin - How to Sell a Consulting Business for 12 X EBITDA (Without an Earn-Out)
Jan 22, 2021
Ep 269 Jack Rivlin - 11 Hard-Earned Lessons From Selling a Struggling Business
Jan 15, 2021
Ep 268 Ryan Daniel Moran - 6 Lessons Ryan Moran Learned From a Seven Figure Loss
Jan 08, 2021
Ep 267 Saud Juman - Why Policy Medical Got 7.2 x Revenue
Dec 23, 2020
Ep 266 Tyler Jefcoat - What to Do When Your Partner Is Not Ready to Sell
Dec 18, 2020
Ep 265 Todd Kaufman - How To Overcome Owner's Guilt
Dec 10, 2020
Ep 264 Lee Richter - How to Get 10x EBITDA in an Industry That Trades at 5
Dec 04, 2020
Ep 263 Mark Timm - The Kevin Harrington Way to Structure the Sale of Your Business
Nov 27, 2020
Ep 262 - Michael Dash - How to Sell a Struggling Company
Nov 20, 2020
Ep 262 - Michael Dash - How to Sell a Struggling Company
Nov 20, 2020
Ep 261 Rob Walling - Play Hard to Get, Without Risking Your Deal
Nov 13, 2020
Ep 260 Stephen V. Smith - The 50% Bump
Nov 06, 2020
Ep 260 Stephen V. Smith - The 50% Bump
Nov 06, 2020
Ep 259 Nathan Hirsch - How to Handle an Acquisition Offer from a Customer
Oct 30, 2020
Ep 258 Adam Torres - The Freedom Point
Oct 23, 2020
Ep 257 David Jondreau - How to Double Your Take From a Sale Without Being a Jerk
Oct 16, 2020
Ep 256 Tom Farinacci II - When The Hunter Becomes The Hunted
Oct 09, 2020
Ep 256 Tom Farinacci II - When The Hunter Becomes The Hunted
Oct 09, 2020
Ep 255 Kim Walsh-Phillips: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on How to Structure Your Earn-out
Oct 02, 2020
Ep 255 Kim Walsh-Phillips: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on How to Structure Your Earn-out
Oct 02, 2020
Ep 255 Kim Walsh-Phillips: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary on How to Structure Your Earn-out
Oct 02, 2020
Ep 254 Gary Nealon – How To Quadruple An Offer For Your Business
Sep 25, 2020
Ep 253 Peter Carlin - How to Punch Above Your Weight Class With Acquirers
Sep 18, 2020
Ep 252 Alex Rink - How to Sell Your Business To A Competitor
Sep 11, 2020
Ep 251 Jonathan Evans - Sociopaths & Imposters: How To Sell Your Baby To A Giant
Sep 04, 2020
Ep 250 - What 250 Owners Have to Say About Selling Your Business
Aug 28, 2020
Ep 249 Aric Bandy - 9 Lessons From An Acquisition Offer Gone Wrong
Aug 21, 2020
Ep 248 David Yaffe - 5 Lessons from growing a startup to a 9-figure exit in 2 years
Aug 14, 2020
Built to Sell: Intel
Aug 07, 2020
Ep 247 Matt Schmeltz - Turning a $2M Business Into a 9-figure Windfall in 3 Years
Jul 31, 2020
Ep 246 Ashok Vasudevan - Exit Like a Tycoon Without Losing Your Soul
Jul 24, 2020
Ep 245 Peter Demangos - The Tech Start-Up vs. The Bootstrap Lifestyle
Jul 17, 2020
Ep 244 Debbie King - 3 Ways to Untangle Yourself from Your Business
Jul 10, 2020
Ep 243 Lee Gregory - The 8 Figure Trigger
Jul 03, 2020
Ep 242 Josh Davis - Walking Away from an 8 Figure Exit
Jun 26, 2020
Ep 241 David Lekach- The Backstory Behind Dream Water's $34.5M Exit
Jun 19, 2020
240 David Amigo - Getting Acquired Doesn't Have To Be A Blood Sport
Jun 12, 2020
Ep 239 Ana Chaud - How the Fine Print in an Acquisition Offer Can Leave You Penniless
Jun 05, 2020
Ep 238 How to Hire a CEO Without Losing Your Company
May 29, 2020
Ep 237 How to Package Your Service Into a Product
May 22, 2020
Ep 236 How to Structure Your Earn-out in Uncertain Times
May 15, 2020
Ep 235 How To Increase An Acquisition Offer Without Appearing Greedy
May 08, 2020
Ep 234 How To Maintain Your Leverage After You Sign An LOI
May 01, 2020
Ep 233 How To Get Acquired By A Partner
Apr 24, 2020
Ep 232 Building to Sell Through a Crisis
Apr 17, 2020
Ep 231 Tips, Hacks And Countermeasures For Negotiating With A Giant
Apr 09, 2020
Ep 230 How To Rethink Your Business Like A Lobster
Apr 03, 2020
Ep 210 Start-up To Exit In 186 Days
Apr 03, 2020
Ep 229 How To Do Less While Making More
Mar 27, 2020
Ep 228 3 Reasons Bollé Sunglasses Acquired SPY Optics
Mar 20, 2020
Ep 227 Why Cracker Barrel Paid $36 Million For Maple Street Biscuit Company
Mar 13, 2020
Ep. 226 The Inside Story Of Elsevier’s $50.6 Million Acquisition Of 3D4Medical.com
Mar 06, 2020
Ep 225 How To Scratch Your Itch
Feb 27, 2020
Ep 224 Inside Shutterstock's $65 Million Acquisition of FlashStock
Feb 21, 2020
Ep 223 Built to Sell News Pura Vida Acquired For $75 Million ++
Feb 14, 2020
Ep 222 How Nick Gray Sold Museum Hack
Feb 07, 2020
Ep 221 When To Bring In Someone To Run Your Company
Jan 31, 2020
Ep 220 3 Ways To Immunize Yourself From The Dangers Ahead.mp3
Jan 24, 2020
Ep 219 How To Make Peace With Your Decision To Sell
Jan 10, 2020
Ep 218 Walking Away From An 8 Figure Deal
Jan 03, 2020
Ep 217 How To Package Your Expertise Into A Subscription
Dec 20, 2019
Ep 216 How To Find A $100 Million Idea
Dec 06, 2019
Ep 215 Start-Up To Ferrari In Five Years
Dec 06, 2019
Ep 214 Avoiding The Commoditization Rat Race To The Bottom
Nov 29, 2019
Ep 213 The Backstory Behind E&J Gallo’s Acquisition of Barefoot Cellars
Nov 22, 2019
Ep 212 WP Curve Get Acquired By Go Daddy
Nov 15, 2019
Ep 211 The Snag Of Selling To Private Equity
Nov 08, 2019
Ep 209 The Hidden Secret That Made This Company Worth A Ton
Oct 25, 2019
Ep 208 How To Avoid Getting Diluted
Oct 18, 2019
Ep 207 When Tragedy Strikes A Founder
Oct 11, 2019
Ep 206 From Billion Dollar Startup To Bankruptcy And Back Again
Oct 04, 2019
Ep 205 How A Patent Sways The Value Of Your Business
Sep 27, 2019
Ep 204 Deciding When To Sell
Sep 20, 2019
Ep 203 How To Place A Value On Your Sales Team
Sep 13, 2019
Ep 202 Multiple Of Earnings Vs. Revenue
Sep 06, 2019
Ep 201 How To You-Proof Your Business
Aug 29, 2019
Ep 200 How Re-Modelling A Swimming Pool Business Led To A 7-Figure Exit
Aug 23, 2019
Ep 199 Finding Your Subscription Model
Aug 16, 2019
Ep 198 A $471 Million Exit From The Online Travel Industry
Aug 09, 2019
Ep 197 Wisdom From Wall Street: How To Buy, Then Sell
Aug 02, 2019
EP 196 Was The Inc. 500 The Reason For This Founder’s Exit?
Jul 26, 2019
Ep 195 When It Makes Sense To Accept Equity Instead Of Cash
Jul 19, 2019
Ep. 194 How To Structure Your Earn Out (Without Getting Burned)
Jul 12, 2019
Ep. 193 The ‘Inside’ Deal: How To Sell Your Company Internally
Jul 05, 2019
Ep. 192 How To Sell A 22-Employee Company For $125 Million
Jun 28, 2019
Ep. 191 When To Hire A President To Run Things.mp3
Jun 21, 2019
Ep. 190 The Other Half Of The Equation
Jun 14, 2019
Ep. 189 What To Do When Something New Attracts Your Attention
Jun 07, 2019
Ep. 188 Herding Cats Towards The Exit
May 31, 2019
Ep. 187 How To Avoid The Hodgepodge Discount
May 24, 2019
Ep. 186 The True Value Of Sticky Customers
May 17, 2019
Ep. 185 From 10 Employees to 10X Revenue
May 10, 2019
Ep. 184 Sixth Time’s a Charm For This Restaurant Owner
May 03, 2019
Ep. 183 How One Consulting Company Used The ‘Netflix Model’ To Transform
Apr 26, 2019
Ep. 182 How One Bad Boy [Clause] Landed an 8-Figure Deal
Apr 12, 2019
Ep. 181 How To Avoid The Idiot Tax
Apr 05, 2019
Ep. 180 3 Strategic Reasons Big Companies Buy Small Ones
Mar 29, 2019
Ep. 179 Disrupted By Airbnb, Acquired By Expedia
Mar 22, 2019
Ep. 178 Buying a Business to Sell It
Mar 15, 2019
Ep. 177 Startup to Exit in 18 Months
Mar 08, 2019
Ep. 176 How Two Co-Founders Stopped One Thing To Change Everything
Mar 01, 2019
Ep. 175 How to Get One Million More from PwC
Feb 22, 2019
Ep. 174 Warren Buffett’s Advice On Creating A Valuable Business
Feb 15, 2019
Ep. 173 Fortune 500 Companies Helped This Founder Exit
Feb 08, 2019
Ep. 171 How to Lose $200 Million
Feb 04, 2019
Ep. 172 Inside the Mind of a Private Equity Acquirer
Feb 01, 2019
Ep. 170 How To Break Up With Your Business Partner
Jan 18, 2019
Ep. 169 The ‘Sell Your Business Before It Starts’ Mindset
Jan 11, 2019
Ep. 168 How To Handle A Low-Ball Offer
Jan 04, 2019
Ep. 167 The Single Biggest Mistake Owners Make
Dec 14, 2018
Ep. 166 What’s Lurking In Your Company’s ‘Attic’?
Dec 07, 2018
Ep. 165 A Small Giant Makes a Great Exit
Nov 30, 2018
Ep. 164 Built to Flip
Nov 23, 2018
Ep. 163 10 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Business: Part 2
Nov 16, 2018
Ep. 162 10 Questions To Ask Yourself About Your Business: Part 1
Nov 11, 2018
Ep. 161 4 Big Exits, 1 Smart Entrepreneur
Nov 02, 2018
Ep. 160 How To Keep Competing Offers In Play
Oct 26, 2018
Ep. 159 How Hawking Pool Chemicals On Subscription Led To An Offer From An Industry Giant
Oct 19, 2018
Ep. 158 An 18-Month Roller Coaster Leads to a Rock-Bottom Sale
Oct 12, 2018
Ep. 157 When NIKE Wants To Buy Your Company
Oct 05, 2018
Ep. 156 From Technological Obsolescence to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit
Sep 28, 2018
Why A NYSE-listed Giant Bought This $2M Business
Sep 21, 2018
Ep. 154 - Jim Remsik's Adorable Exit Was Just Right
Sep 14, 2018
Ep. 153 How Matchmaking By Microsoft Led To One Of 2018’s Biggest Technology Deals
Sep 07, 2018
Ep. 152 This Grasshopper Learned Well
Aug 17, 2018
Ep. 151 What To Do When Getting Out Means Staying On
Aug 10, 2018
Ep. 150 Cracking the Amazon e-Commerce Code
Aug 03, 2018
Ep. 149 How Indian Motorcycle & Chris-Craft Were Built to Sell
Jul 27, 2018
Ep. 148 Getting Out Quick And Clean
Jul 20, 2018
A Good Acquisition Offer Goes Horribly Wrong
Jul 13, 2018
Ep. 146 Niche Down To Jack Up Your Value
Jul 06, 2018
Salsa Maker Gets Contract With Whole Foods On Her Way To A Surprising Exit
Jun 29, 2018
Ep. 144 How Jennifer Aniston And Reese Witherspoon Helped Viviscal Exit For 15 x EBITDA
Jun 15, 2018
Ep. 142 From $15 In His Pocket To A $3.2M Exit
May 25, 2018
How To Sell Your Family’s Business
May 18, 2018
Ep. 140 The Acquisition Of FPD: 4 Offers, 1 Big Regret
May 11, 2018
Ep. 139 Influencer Marketing Pioneer Acquired By Fullscreen
May 04, 2018
Ep. 138 With Clients Like Starbucks And NIKE, Blast Radius Was Irresistible To Acquirers
Apr 27, 2018
Ep. 137 From Broke To A $1B Sale
Apr 20, 2018
Ep. 136 How A Baby-Sitting Job Turned Into 100+ Franchises In A Few Short Years
Apr 13, 2018
Ep. 135 How One Key Hire Helped Dimple Up Their Value By 500% in 2.5 Years
Apr 06, 2018
Ep. 134 3 x EBITDA To 13 x EBITDA In Just 2.5 Years
Apr 04, 2018
Ep. 133 From Paper Sketches To $441M Sale
Mar 23, 2018
Ep. 132 How Much Are Your Employees Worth To An Acquirer?
Mar 21, 2018
Ep. 131 Finding An Investor Vs. An Acquirer
Mar 09, 2018
Ep. 130 Why LinkedIn Acquired This Dorm Room Startup
Mar 02, 2018
Ep. 129 From Food Stamps To A Seven-figure Exit
Feb 23, 2018
Ep. 128 Third Time's A Charm: From False Starts To Finishing Big
Feb 16, 2018
Ep. 127 How Forecasting The Future Led To A $100M Sale
Feb 09, 2018
Ep. 126 Getting A Second Bite Of The Apple
Feb 02, 2018
Ep. 125 Built to Flip: From Start Up To Sell Out In Just 2 Years
Jan 26, 2018
Ep. 124 How To Recover (and thrive) After Splitting From Your Co-Founder
Jan 12, 2018
Ep. 123 Why VEEV Vodka Went for More Than 7 Times Revenue
Jan 05, 2018
Ep. 122 How To Get Acquired By Facebook (Twice)
Dec 29, 2017
Ep. 121 - 5 (Sobering) Lessons from the Sales of Hammocks.com
Dec 22, 2017
Ep. 119 The Hunter vs. the Hunted
Dec 04, 2017
Ep. 118 The Founder of the “Female Viagra” Sells Her Business for $1 Billion
Nov 22, 2017
Ep. 117 The Man Behind the $1.3B Sale of Wind Mobile
Nov 15, 2017
Ep. 116 Bitcoin - The Investor vs. The Acquirer
Nov 09, 2017
Ep. 115 How to Get Negotiating Leverage When You’re Desperate
Nov 02, 2017
Ep. 114 Selling a Main-street Business
Oct 18, 2017
Ep. 113 How to Get More Than 1 Times Revenue for a Company with No Hard Assets
Oct 11, 2017
Ep. 112 The Strategic vs. The Financial Buyer
Oct 04, 2017
Ep. 111 How to Sell a Consulting Firm
Sep 27, 2017
Ep. 110 How Mainspring Went From a Valuation of 1 to 5 Times Revenue
Sep 20, 2017
Ep. 109 How to Exit a Consulting Business
Sep 13, 2017
Ep. 108 Lessons from Home Depot’s Acquisition of a $100 Million Juggernaut Blinds.com
Sep 06, 2017
Ep. 107 Negotiation Secrets From Three Exits
Aug 30, 2017
Ep. 106 Cashing Out of the Oil Business
Aug 23, 2017
Ep. 105 Why Did This $3MM Company Sell For 5X Revenue?
Aug 16, 2017
Ep. 104 The Other Reason Owners Decide to Sell
Aug 09, 2017
Ep. 103 The Acquisition of the Company Behind Chicago Bulls Sunglasses
Aug 02, 2017
Ep. 102 The Downside Of Being Upfront With Employees
Jul 19, 2017
Ep. 101 The Doer vs. The Deal Maker
Jul 12, 2017
Ep. 100 How a Vision Board Drove One Owner to Sell
Jul 05, 2017
Ep. 99 Why Hitting $10MM In Annual Revenue Matters
Jun 28, 2017
Ep. 98 How Cigar City Brewing Got Oskar Blues To Triple Their Acquisition Offer
Jun 21, 2017
Ep. 97 How EBITDA adjustments impact the value of your business
Jun 14, 2017
Ep. 96 The Philosophy of Building to Sell
Jun 07, 2017
Ep. 95 The (Awfully) Thin Line Between Success and Failure
May 31, 2017
Ep. 94 From Nothing to $25 Million in 12 Months
May 24, 2017
Ep. 93 What’s Your Company’s Name Worth
May 17, 2017
Ep. 92 America’s Condom King Sells His Business
May 10, 2017
Ep. 91 10 X Earnings By Future Proofing Your Buyer
May 03, 2017
Ep. 90 When to Tell Employees You’re Thinking of Selling
Apr 26, 2017
Ep. 89 What UPS looks for when making an acquisition
Apr 19, 2017
Ep. 88 What Happens When the Big Dog Sells
Apr 12, 2017
Ep. 87 The success rate statistics on selling your business
Apr 05, 2017
Ep. 86 The Speedy Sale
Mar 29, 2017
Ep. 85 3 Acquisition Offers, 1 Surprising Decision
Mar 08, 2017
Ep. 84 Wisdom From The Sale Of Six Businesses
Mar 01, 2017
Ep. 83 Do You Want An All-Cash Offer?
Feb 22, 2017
Ep. 82 A Big Chunk of Something Small vs. a Small Slice of Something Big?
Feb 15, 2017
Ep. 81 Four Mistakes To Avoid When You Get An Acquisition Offer
Feb 08, 2017
Ep. 80 From Start-Up To Exit In Three Years
Feb 01, 2017
Ep. 79 How To Double An Acquisition Offer For Your Business
Jan 25, 2017
Ep. 77 The $15 Million Lesson
Jan 11, 2017
Ep. 76 Is Your Business Worth Less Than You Think?
Jan 04, 2017
Ep. 75 How Shapeup Got Richard Branson To Boost His Acquisition Offer By 50%
Dec 28, 2016
Ep. 74 Would You Have the Audacity to Turn Down $40MM for a $9MM Company?
Dec 21, 2016
Ep. 73 The Second Most Important Thing to Negotiate When Selling Your Business
Dec 14, 2016
Ep. 72 Raising Money? Avoid This Sleazy Investor’s Trap
Dec 07, 2016
Ep. 71 An Interview with The E-Myth’s Michael Gerber
Nov 30, 2016
Ep. 70 Inside the Mind of a Private Equity Investor
Nov 23, 2016
Ep. 69 A Cautionary Tale
Nov 16, 2016
Ep. 68 How to structure your earn-out
Nov 09, 2016
Ep. 67 The 8:1 Flip
Nov 02, 2016
Ep. 66 Are you stacking a few Benjamins?
Oct 26, 2016
Ep. 65 The downside of accepting shares as payment from your acquirer
Oct 19, 2016
Ep. 64 Two to Tango
Oct 12, 2016
Ep. 63 What Do You Need From The Sale Of Your Business?
Oct 05, 2016
Ep. 62 How One Pivot Doubled The Value of This Business
Sep 28, 2016
Ep. 61 How To Structure Your Earn-Out
Sep 21, 2016
Ep. 60 When To Sell Your Business
Sep 14, 2016
Ep. 59 Think Twice Before Starting That New Division
Sep 07, 2016
Ep. 58 The Surprising Truth About Who Will Buy Your Company
Aug 24, 2016
Ep. 57 How To Quadruple The Value Of Your Business
Aug 17, 2016
Ep. 56 The $20 Million Mistake
Aug 10, 2016
Ep. 55 Lessons From A £20 Million Exit
Aug 03, 2016
Ep. 54 The Competitive Threat
Jul 27, 2016
Ep. 53 Who Would Buy Your Business?
Jul 20, 2016
Ep. 52 Selling The Baby In The Bathwater
Jul 13, 2016
Ep. 51 Your Training Wheels Business
Jul 06, 2016
Ep. 50 The 50% Bump
Jun 29, 2016
Ep. 49 The External vs. Internal Sale
Jun 22, 2016
Ep. 48 The Biggest Mistake Most Owners Make When Selling Their Company
Jun 15, 2016
Ep. 47 Why Was This Money-Losing Business Worth $10 Million?
Jun 08, 2016
Ep. 46 The Apple Acquisition
Jun 01, 2016
Ep. 45 Raising Money Vs. Going It Alone
May 25, 2016
Ep. 44 Multiple of What?
May 18, 2016
Ep. 43 The Ambush
May 11, 2016
Ep. 42 How One Email Triggered Seven Acquisition
May 04, 2016
Ep. 41 The Fishing Trip
Apr 27, 2016
Ep. 40 Is Your Partnership A Ticking Time Bomb?
Apr 20, 2016
Ep. 39 A Brand That’s Built to Sell
Apr 13, 2016
Ep. 38 Selling Your Company vs. Selling Your Product
Apr 06, 2016
Ep. 37 $250K to $180M
Mar 30, 2016
Ep. 36 The $20 Million Expiry Date
Mar 23, 2016
Ep. 35 Playing Chicken
Mar 16, 2016
Ep. 34 The Strategic
Mar 09, 2016
Ep. 33 Identity Theft
Mar 02, 2016
Ep. 32 The Atheist Bible Salesman Who Sold His Company for 5X Revenue
Feb 24, 2016
Ep. 31 Cut Your Earnout
Feb 17, 2016
Ep. 30 Exiting the Automatic Business
Feb 10, 2016
Ep. 29 The DIY Disaster
Feb 03, 2016
Ep. 28 The Shotgun Deal
Jan 27, 2016
Ep. 27 The 9-Figure Exit
Jan 20, 2016
Ep. 26 3 Hidden Factors That Impact Your Business Valuation
Jan 13, 2016
Ep. 25 The Phantom Buyer
Jan 06, 2016
Ep. 24 How a Non Compete Almost Derailed The Sale Of This $14M Business
Dec 16, 2015
Ep. 23 How to Sell Your Sweat Equity
Dec 09, 2015
Ep. 22 Engineered to Sell
Dec 02, 2015
Ep. 21 To Sell or Not to Sell?
Nov 24, 2015
Ep. 20 - The $192M Exit
Nov 18, 2015
Ep. 19 The Question
Nov 11, 2015
Ep. 18 Tied At The Hip
Nov 04, 2015
Ep. 17 The ADHD Entrepreneur
Oct 28, 2015
Ep. 16 The Pivot
Oct 21, 2015
Ep. 15 The Outsider
Oct 14, 2015
Ep. 14 The $10 Million Membership Model
Oct 07, 2015
Ep. 13 The Boomerang Sale
Sep 30, 2015
Ep. 12 The 26-Million-Dollar Regret
Sep 23, 2015
Ep. 11 Buy low, sell high
Sep 16, 2015
Ep. 10 The Hairy Deal
Sep 09, 2015
Ep. 09 The Zexit
Sep 02, 2015
Ep. 08 A Scar Deep Enough To Make You Want To Sell
Aug 26, 2015
Ep. 07 The buyer next door
Aug 19, 2015
Ep. 06 Earn Out, Flame Out
Aug 12, 2015
Ep. 05 The downside of selling young
Aug 05, 2015
Ep. 04 Avoiding the key man discount
Jul 29, 2015
Ep. 03 Business Exit Lessons Learned After Interviewing Hundreds of Entrepreneurs
Jul 22, 2015
Ep. 02 The secret to negotiating a sale with a multi-billion dollar corporation
Jul 15, 2015
Ep. 01 How to negotiate an extra $1M in the sale of your business overnight
Jul 15, 2015
Ep. 00 An Intro to Built to Sell Radio
Jul 13, 2015