How We Bought 14 Businesses and Built a $30M HoldCo in 6 Years | Joe Van Deman and Colin King Interview

Meet Joe Van Deman and Colin King

Founders of Circle City Capital Group. Starting with a small amount of savings and an SBA loan, over the past six years, they’ve made 14 acquisitions that have been consolidated into 4 companies, employing a total of 200 people.

A combined $30m of revenue.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:55 - How Joe and Colin met and what they did before their first acquisition

00:07.32 - Quitting their jobs to start a 50/50 partnership with a "stranger"

00:12:29 - First acquisition

00:20:33 - Second acquisition

00:24:45 - The industries and companies they are looking at

00:32:55 - Current portfolio and deals made so far

00:41:42 - How they manage a portfolio of 10+ companies

00:49:31 - How they survived the hard times

00:57:13 - Post acquisition and learning the specifics of the industry/field within 90 days

00:59:44 - Salary, paying dividends or reinvesting the profits

01:01:05 - Thoughts on the next acquisitions

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