Top M&A Entrepreneurs

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  4 Acquisitions: 1st was 88% Seller Finance E:50 Top M&A Entrepreneurs Jason Paul Rogers

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  Involved in 7 Acquisitions (9 Figures)  Integration, DD and the technical  risk assessment role

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  9 Acquisitions, $0 to $25 Million in One year - headed to Inc. 5000  E:48 Scott Shannon Top M&A Entrepreneur

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  1st Acquisition, 100% No Money Down Earn In  E:46 Gia Cilento & Eric Gesinski  Top M&A Entrepreneurs00:20  Intro to Gia and Eric  - why they joined forces08:20  How they decided on Acquisition Niche12:15  getting into Jay Abraham15:00  Breadth of optionality in M&A 18:00 Failing at business - why the goldfish have 10 second memory22:45  How?  (versus envy)25:59  How much deal source did they do?29:00 What M&A skills / deal stack did they apply to this acquisition41:34   Did earn out,  change / hurt cash flow - 2X growth?43:48   Pulling out salary or percentage of profits?47:42  Was first acquisition hub or spoke?50:12   Offers out

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  2 Acquisitions and marching towards $25 Million in Revenue  E:47 Peter Oykhman Top M&A Entrepreneur00:04  Intro to Peter Oykhman,  originally from Russia02:01  How big is Core Partners - story of 1st acquisition05:22  Buying a similar product line08:50  Why didn't seller go to auction10:01  What was capital stack for 1st acquisition12:55 what was ROI on acquisition13:37  How clean was code16:08  Why did they sell / motivation?18:10  Integration issues?19:18  How did acquisition change his thinking about M&A?21:48  2nd Acquisition Story36:20   Legal structure of acquisitions39:20  Working on 3rd for diversification42:00  Russia Russia Russia 49:20  Working on 3rd is it easier?

🚀 Get My Free Book! 📖 How to Buy Your First Million Dollar BusinessE: 45 Top M&A Entrepreneur - Sebastian Amieva 45 Acquisitions Global CitizenInvestor | Mentor | M&A Expert00:05 Sponsor DueDilio00:36  Intro to Sebastian Amieva calling in from Uruguay 09:46  Can we seller trust financial statements - only with hard assets16:02  How he start acquiring companies (at 24 years old)22:35  Number of deals,  How he helps them23:22  How he helps clients with 1st acquisition - is it all about the money?26:25  How he partners with clients28:30  His best break out student33:14  Helping clients without experience in industry they are acquiring36:39  What is exit plan for students?38:32  Picking superstar students - characteristics for best chance to succeed 43:42  What questions does he ask seller?47:13  How much time does he spend on valuation with asset heavy business?49:00  What industries he avoids?53:00  What types of deals is Sebastian working on now - in India?54:00   Working with Deliotte and Attorney - his deal team

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  00:07  Sponsor - DueDilio00:34  Intro to Nick Bradley he has worked on 117 Acquisitions over career03:37  How do you EXIT a business06:47  Breaking CEO's mind by pitching idea to grow by 50% to 100% per year11:10  Stories to tell to help CEO's grow.   Creating A Life-Changing Number Exit17:01  Numbers on businesses sold -what is your highest value?23:30  What you want to reach out to your buyer 12 month before selling26:10  As soon as you start to scale...do this...27:13  PE firms are notorious for shadow valuation LOIs - How to flip with script34:30  Buying a company from PE and VCs37:55  Not cheap if you are walking away with $10 to $20 million - how you get there39:59  Who he goes to for inspiration - 90 day cadence42:41  67 marathons45:02  Why worry twice 52:00 Goals for 2022

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  Joseph B Anderson.  WestPoint graduate,  Vietnam Veteran Served 13 years in Army,  Featured in the movie “The Anderson Platoon”.  After Vietnam,  became plant manager for GM - responsible for $1 billion in revenue.   Left GM to buy his first acquisition, Chivas Products Limited.  Inherited a lot of debt, leveraged everything,  sought bankruptcy protection.   From that experience, Developed a signature turn around strategy.  Chairman and CEO of Tag Holdings.  Started in 2001.  Holding company for Wolverine Industries & Baron Industries.   Profiled on CNBC's "Blue Collar Millionaires".  13 Acquisitions with Revenues over $1.3 billion 00:00 Sponsor - DueDilio00:31  Intro to Joseph B.  Anderson01:44  His first acquisition in 1994 of Chivas Products Limited03:19  Balance sheets,  what did too much debt teach him04:32  Hard lessons learned - Making same mistake says something about you05:05  2nd Acquisition  Acquires Vibration Control Technologies, LLC, majority owner – divested in Mar 2010.        06:27   What life lessons - what is worse could happen - learned from Battlefield07:29   How transparent are you with all your employees - what is leader responsible for?09:04   What did he do with - Chivas Products Limited?09:44   In 2003 acquires a unit of Dongsuh, in Korea - lessons learned from a distance11:59   Who was his mentor at West Point?12:28  Acquired In 2003 North American Assemblies, Sold to long time General Manager - Value of your business is only nice on paper only real when you sell it.   Mentoring / Creating Opportunities15:55  Acquired Wolverine Assemblies - Joint Ventures in the Auto Industry 18:40  Helping others,   can't spend it till you sell it.  Owning it nice.   Having owned it is better19:35  Identifying superstars - the right people.   Some people do not work out. 20:34  Acquired Shared Vision LLC.   Customer caught cold he caught pneumonia  Lesson Customer Concentration21:20  Acquired Baron Industries  - one of his best success story - did so well not going to tell you. 22:32  Divest from Aircasters - not doing so well sold without exciting returns23:13   Learning from failures - what was his biggest one - avoid these characteristics - hard decisions about people. 25:24  Turning down opportunities - reality checks27:24   Do you like being CEO of a holding company?28:02   How does he improve his skills?28:55   What is his future plan for Tag Holdings?29:50  Did he ever step in and take over as CEO of one of his companies?30:32   What Advice would he give to someone entering M&A world31:22   What about his favorite phrase,  "It is what it is"

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  Great conversation with Tom Shipley.  Tom sold $2billion through Atlantic Coast Brands and raised $100 million for ecommerce acquisitions - Why you need to Add a ZERO to your opportunity. 00:09  Sponsor DueDilio com00:43  Introduction to Tom Shipley Launched Foundry, Atlantic Coast Brands01:43  Major shift in life - moved to Israel and joined Israel Special Forces03:01  Learning the "Power of the Impossible"    Focus and Clarity: same in Special Forces as in Business04:41  Started with $100 in pocket.   What is worse that can happen.  05:54  How do you create or transfer the "Special Forces" life experience - if you don't join military 07:09  Why Ego kills the culture - taking calculating risks  (adding a Zero)  Why playing small is soul crushing11:20  How they bought a $15mm with $1mm in Ebidta business when theirs was only doing $300k and in one year took both to $35 million14:10  Getting into Amazon Aggregation,  Thrasio,  The World has changed - the start of Foundry15:49  Taking Roland Frasier's EPIC course  - everyone should crafting their skill sets  - sharpen sword17:14  Launching his next Billion dollar business with Peter Lang18:10  Why the number one job is "Recruiting"19:42   Speed and Culture  - Hiring Stars / Superstars  - Trust - How you do Extraordinary things24:09  Raising $100 million acquisition fund,  how he picked the capital sources - what was important in a funding partner  - what are people like when things go bad  - asking "and then what?"34:23  Integrating Digital Agencies through M&A - rolling up 10 at time38:22  Solving the Cultural issue with the new Digital Agency Acquisitions - setting up SOPs/Culture Bibles40:51  What are skills & tools to "add a zeros"   Having a bigger vision  - 1. What would have to be true for this to happen?   2. If we solve this, so what?45:40   The Book will come when I have time. 47:40  Impact investment project - NFTs, crypto raising $30billion  - no clowns49:25  Who he seeks out for inspiration  - listening to our gut50:49  Its a game but how many lives have you impacted.

 Take the Business Buyer Readiness Assessment →  00:11  Our First Podcast Sponsor  DueDilio00:53  Intro to Trish Higgins01:23  What Chenmark Capital Mgmt. does...and how05:38  Clarifying the Ebidta requirement07:09  Are Investors throwing money at Chenmark?09:48  Who / what idea or company are you modelling - 20 year horizon?12:59  How many companies have you acquired,  who was first? 15:44  1st Acquisition - Seabreeze Properties - How did you find it, where, how was process, offer, broker deal, financing stack?26:01  Seller financing - how was that structured?27:14  How did you make up for a lack of "Operations" expertise? 29:16  Did sellers exit early?29:55  Learning / Finding / Growing the C-Suite to run their companies - How Chenmark does it36:53  Graduates of your leadership training,  what are they seeing - who enrolls?40:20  How often do your portfolio CEOs communicate with HQ?42:45  Is the financial software & reporting standardized throughout your portfolio?44:59   What about capital allocation decisions? 46:35   What happens if sales / profits are down 5% or costs up 5%?49:52   What does Chenmark have in place for the CEO to grow their skills?53:45   Chenmark Core Values 54:26   Chasing your better self54:46   What do you know now that you did not know then? 56:14   How is decision made on CEOs?