Independence by Design

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May 09, 2026
Ep. 493 — Ryan & Kim | How to Tie Everyone's Compensation to Your Ownership Goals
Apr 30, 2026
Ep. 491 — Bud Martin: The Lower Middle Market M&A Gap Nobody Talks About
Apr 23, 2026
Ep. 490 — Alex Chausovsky + Kim Clark: Supply Chains, Inflation, and Your Profit Battle Plan
Apr 22, 2026
Ep. 492 — Ryan: How to Analyze Your Margins and Gross Profit
Apr 16, 2026
Ep. 489 — Kim Clark: The Profit War Room. Inflation Is Coming. Do You Have a Battle Plan?
Apr 09, 2026
Ep. 488 — Dr. Sabrina Starling: \$10,000/Hour Work and the 4-Week Vacation Test
Apr 02, 2026
Ep. 487 — Casey Brown: The Fear That's Eating Your Margins
Mar 26, 2026
Ep. 486 — Pete Walker: Your Business Built This Community. What Happens to It When You're Gone?
Mar 19, 2026
Ep. 485 — Steve Moss: You Found the Leader. Now How Do You Make Them Stay?
Mar 12, 2026
Ep. 484 — Meg Gold: Your Best Leaders Are Out There. They Just Can't Find You.
Mar 05, 2026
Ep. 483 — Cyndi Gave: Stop Guessing If Your People Can Think — Here's How to Actually Measure It
Jan 01, 2026
Ep. 481 — Nick Bradley: The Private Equity Operating System
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Jan 01, 2026
Ep. 482 — Matt Curry: He Sold His $18M Auto Repair Empire, Regretted It, and Built It Back Better
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 441 — John Rood: The Day After the Money Hits
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 442 — Alex McClafferty: What Happens When You Can't Outwork the Truth Anymore
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 443 — Graham & Kyle: How to Value Your Business Without the Bullsh*t
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 444 — Clint Fiore: What Main Street Actually Sells For (And Why Most Owners Get It Wrong)
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 445 — Mark Cleveland: You Don't Have to Sell or Scale. There's a Third Option.
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 446 — Joe Brown: Stop Watching the Fed. Watch the Treasury.
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 447 — Jeff Buettner: Q2 2025 M&A Update — Tariffs, Tweeners, and the $5M Inflection Point
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 448 — Jennifer Davis: Bootstrapped to $20M, Sold to PE, Then What?
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 449 — Ryan: Why the Meaning of Life, Hard Work, and Sound Money Are the Same Conversation
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 450 — Jean Moncrieff: Letting Go, Leading with Values, and Building a Company That Lasts
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 451 — Paul Spiegelman: Chasing Purpose After the Exit
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 452 — Geoff Woods: The Thought Leader, Not the Thought Partner
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 453 — Jennifer Davis: From Chaos to Cash, The Comp Plan That Frees You to Lead
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 454 — Candice Bradley: Designing the Game You Want to Play
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 455 — Jim Carlisle: Boardroom Ownership, Protecting Value, and the Capital Allocator Seat
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 456 — Panel with Mike Finger: The 2% vs the 98%, and Who Exit Planning Is Actually For
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 457 — Alan Beaulieu & Kim Clark: Explaining Bitcoin to an Economist
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 458 — Brandon Henry: The Business Advice System Is Broken — Here's the Truth Owners Need
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 459 — Bob Muller: Why Clean Data Is the Bottleneck Between You and Faster Decisions
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 460 — Tom Nagler: The Math Doesn't Tell You When to Sell
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 461 — Alan Beaulieu & Kim Clark: Why Budgets Fail Without Economic Context (Budget Season 2026, Part 1)
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 462 — Pat Hobby: The Income Statement Doesn't Tell You If You'll Have Cash
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 463 — Kim Clark: The 12-Step Revenue Forecast (Budget Season 2026, Part 3)
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 464 — Cyndi Gave: Build a Leadership Team Without Lying to Yourself
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 465 — Nick Bradley: Same Foundation, Different Game — Build to Sell or Build to Keep
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 466 — Lawrence Lepard: The Fiat Game Is Rigged. Fix the Money, Fix the World.
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 467 — Alan Beaulieu & Kim Clark: The Danger Confronting the Economy (and Your Five-Year Plan)
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 468 — Jeff West: If You Have to Be There Every Day, You're Doing It Wrong
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 469 — Alison Bechdol: Your Marketing Isn't Broken. Your Data Is.
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 470 — Greg Meredith: Why Your Strategic Plan Isn't a Strategy
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 471 — Tyler LaFleur: Why AI Without a Goal Just Builds the Wrong Ladder Faster
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 472 — Ryan: The Only Financial Model You Will Ever Need
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 473 — John Bartlett: The 8th Inning Problem and What Selling a Business Actually Looks Like
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 474 — Luke Maupin: How to Flip the Power Dynamic with Your Commercial Bank
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 475 — Matt Paulson: $50M & 20 Employees, Designing a Business You Never Want to Sell
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 476 — Tom Shipley: Why $1–$2M EBITDA Is the Valley of Despair
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 477 — Bill Cowan: Buying a Business Is Easy. Living With It Is Hard
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 478 — Alan, Kim & Kyle: Q1 2026 Update on Fed Pressure, Debasement, and Where Deals Are Getting Done
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 479 — John Abrams: When the Business Works but the Owner Doesn't
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Jan 01, 2025
Ep. 480 — Kim Clark: What a CRO Does to Create Predictable Revenue
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 381 — Ami Kassar: Debt Without a Plan Is Just Indigestion
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 382 — Brian Beaulieu & Jeff Buettner: The Mild Recession Most Owners Will Misread
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 383 — Richard Wilson: Average Equals Death and the Mental Models Billionaires Actually Use
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 384 — Atif Rafiq: The Missing Step Between Strategy and Execution
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 385 — Rob Green: 17 Brands, Margin Compression, and What's Actually Defensible
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 386 — Chris Heivly: Why Building a Company is Like Building a Fort
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 387 — Doug Howarth: Why Most New Products Fail (And the Map Your Market Already Drew)
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 388 — Tom Reber: The Fight Between Your Ears Is Costing You the Trades
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 389 — Jonathan Beskin: The Anxiety That Built a $60M Brand
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 390 — Daniel Goldstein: The ESOP Holding Company Model and the Purest Form of Capitalism
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 391 — Dan Cremons: The End of Financial Engineering
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 392 — Jeff Campbell: The Banker Who Actually Understands Your Cash Flow
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 393 — Chris White & Jason Petro: When the P&L Says You're Profitable and the Bank Account Says You're Broke
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 394 — ITR Economics & ButcherJoseph: The Bifurcated Economy and the New Math of Selling Your Business
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 400 — Ryan: Introduction to Independence by Design™
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 401 — Joe Brown: The Money Printer vs. Your Cash Flow
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 402 — Roger Roundy: The Missing Seat That's Costing You Six Figures in Taxes
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 403 — Eric Roman: Balance Sheet Rich, Cash Flow Broke, and the Exit That Didn't Fix It
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 404 — Craig Rutledge: Designing a CEO Comp Plan That Actually Pays You First
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 405 — Mike Frommelt: The $15M Team Running Your $30M Company
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 406 — Brandon Hall: The Art and Science of Business Valuations: Insights from Over 1,500 Valuations
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 407 — Ken Sanginario: Where the Multiple Comes From, and How to Double It
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 408 — Matt Bodnar: Escaping the Daily Grind by Moving from Operator to Capital Allocator
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 409 — Tracy Bech: Where Is the Money? From Services to E-Commerce and the Cash Flow Lessons Between Them
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 410 — ITR, ButcherJoseph & Walker Insights: The Q3 Briefing Your CPA Isn't Giving You
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 411 — Casey Brown: Your Toes Aren't on the Cliff. The Cliff Is Across the Room.
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 412 — Shiv Narayanan: Why Your Revenue Is Too Lumpy to Sell (and Too Lumpy to Enjoy)
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 413 — Gary Kusin: From GameStop to Kinko's, What It Takes to Build, Scale, and Hand Off Legacy Businesses
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 414 — Adam Webb: Why the Offer in Your Inbox Is Almost Never Your Best Deal
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 415 — Tom Walker: Everyone Gets Punched in the Face. Plan Anyway.
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 416 — Brandon Henry: Behind the Curtain at the Ultra-Wealthy Family Office
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 417 — Marcel Petitpas: When Ops and Finance Tell Two Different Stories
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 418 — Walker Deibel: The Million-Dollar Hamster Wheel and the Wealth Stack Above It
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 419 — Jean Moncrieff: The Growth That Shackled Him
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 420 — Bill Mills: Closing the Execution Gap Without Losing the Culture You Built
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 421 — Mike Michalowicz: Why Your Team Isn't Acting Like Owners
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 422 — Joel Trammell: From Operator to Owner — Redefining the CEO Role
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 423 — Tracy Bech: From Financial Confusion to Clarity with the 14 Ownership KPIs
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 424 — Jimmy Fritz: When EOS Isn't Enough
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 425 — Ken Sanginario & John Lawlor: The Cash Flow Gap Hiding Inside Your EBITDA
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 426 — Jeff Buettner: How the Buyer's Math Decides What You Actually Get Paid
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 427 — Dave Diehl: The Hidden Factors That Quietly Eat Your Net Proceeds
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 428 — Ken Sanginario: Where Your Multiple Actually Comes From
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 429 — Rens Hayes: How to Engineer Value Instead of Hoping For It
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 430 — Patrick Donohue: Free Cash Flow Is All That Matters. Everything Else Is Noise.
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 431 — Heather Braimbridge-Cox & Bill Mills: Turning Crisis Into a Scalable ESOP
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 432 — Nick Bradley: Why More Growth Won't Set You Free
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 433 — Mike Frommelt & Rick Rittmaster: Designing the Org Chart Your Future Business Actually Needs
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 434 — Q1 Economic & M&A Update: Reading the Money Before You Make the Bet
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 435 — John Thwing: The New SBA Playbook for Acquisitions
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 436 — Shannon Susko: The Three-Year Line in the Sand That Changes Your Valuation
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 437 — Rob Dube: He Did What Most Owners Only Dream About
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 438 — Pat Hobby: What a Great CFO Actually Does (And Why Most Owners Have the Wrong Expectations)
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 439 — Kim Clark: The Marketing Engine That Actually Ties to a Dollar
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Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 440 — Elliott Holland: EBITDA Doesn't Pay the Loan
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 321 — Tommy Mello: Inside the Mind of a Strategic Buyer
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 322 — Rachel Wallis Andreasson: How the Wallis Family Actually Did the G2-to-G3 Transition
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 323 — Dave Diehl & Steve Storkan: The Tax-Advantaged Buyout Your M&A Banker Won't Sell You
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 324 — Neil Brozen & David Solomon: The Trustee Myth and What You Actually Give Up When You Sell to an ESOP
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 325 — Keith Apton & Miguel Paredes: ESOP Myths, 1042 Deferrals, Warrants, and How Executives Actually Get Paid
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 326 — Jim Steiker & Ken Baker: How ESOPs Buy, Get Bought, and Make 55 Millionaires
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 327 — Jeannie Voigt: When the All-Cash Deal Costs You Four Years
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 328 — Doug Farren: What 1,000 Middle-Market Owners Just Told Us About Growth, Talent, and Exits
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 329 — Ryan: Why Your Annual Plan Is Pointed at the Wrong Number
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 330 — Patrick Donohue: The Capital Gap Where Most Owners Get Stuck
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 331 — Joel Beyer: Foot to the Floor in an Old Jeep, Going 55
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 332 — Jeff Campbell: Tying Marketing Spend to the Equity Value of Your Company
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 333 — Chris Sanchez: Stop Building Funnels You Haven't Tested
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 334 — Chris Ronzio: Get the Business Out of Your Brain Before the Buyer Asks for It
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 335 — Dr. Sabrina Starling: How to Hire the A-Player You Think You Can't Afford
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 336 — Craig Rutledge: How to Pay Rockstar Executives Without Giving Up Equity
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 337 — Mike Frommelt: The Hire That Decouples You From the Business
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 338 — Ryan & John Thielen: The Hired President Who Helped His Owner Sell for 11x
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 339 — Justin Breen: Why Most Visionaries Are Winning the Wrong Game
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 340 — Spencer Hilligoss: Take the Money Question Off the Table
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 341 — Kevin W. McCarthy: A Sense of Purpose vs. Knowing Yours
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 342 — ITR Economics, ButcherJoseph & NCMM: Reading the Real Data Behind the 2023 Headlines
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 343 — Josh Golden: The Five-Year Decision to Sell TXI to an ESOP
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 344 — John Waller: The M&A Conversations Reshaping Your Biggest Customers and Vendors
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 345 — Jonathan Jay: 48 Acquisitions, $500K Monthly Payroll, and the Hospital Visit That Ended It
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 346 — Casey Brown: The Pricing Power You're Not Using
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 347 — Matt Paulson: The Business Is the Platform. Don't Sell the Platform.
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 348 — Linda Rose: Three Companies, Three Multiples, and the Lesson That Cost Her Millions
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 349 — Dan Grimsrud: The Resentment Bomb Inside Your Operating Agreement
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 350 — Brandon Henry: Why Your CEO Can't Win Until Ownership Decides What It Wants
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 351 — Drew Bisbing & Warner Cruz: Three PE Rounds, One Culture, and the Buyer Your People Actually Need You to Pick
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 352 — Charlie Merrill: How Servant Leadership Built a $20M Company With 40% Margins and Zero Turnover
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 353 — Anthony Taylor: Why Your $40M Goal Has No Gas in the Tank
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 354 — Kison Patel: Why 80% of Acquisitions Don't Earn Their Cost of Capital
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 355 — Mike Spack: 75% Revenue Drop, Then a Seven-Figure EBITDA Exit
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 356 — Brian Beaulieu, Jeff Buettner & John Thwig: When the Tide Goes Out — Banking, M&A, and SBA in a Rising-Rate Market
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 357 — Jason Weimer: How a Working-Class Stake Compounded Into an 8-Figure Exit
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 358 — Camille Nicita: From Intern to CEO to Selling the Company She Built
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 359 — Matt Altman: The Six Inches Between Your Ears
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 360 — Sindhu Srivastava: When the Old Boys' Club Won't Promote You, Buy Your Own Company
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 361 — Rob & Colin Reilly: When the Treadmill Gets Unplugged
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 362 — Chris Carlson: The PE Two-by-Four He Didn't See Coming
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 363 — Loren Horsager: The AI Fear You Have Is the Wrong One
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 364 — Casey Cavell: $9K to $40M and the Written Plan That Made Every Hard Call Obvious
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 365 — Jon LaCasse: Decoupling Yourself From the Sales Seat
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 366 — Brian Roers: People and Numbers, and the December 23rd Bankruptcy Call That Built a $2.2B Empire
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 367 — Bill Flynn: Team, Strategy, Cash. In That Order.
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 368 — Robert Cote: The IP Bind That Traps Most Owners Between Cash Flow and a Strategic Sale
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 369 — Corey Rosen: The Third Exit Door Most Owners Never Hear About
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 370 — Q3 2023 Economic & M&A Update: What the Data Says vs. What Your Gut Says
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 371 — Joel Trammell: The CEO Seat Has No Playbook. Here's One.
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 372 — Walker Deibel & Nick Bradley: Buy It, Build It, Sell It (Without Getting Played)
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 373 — Tom Walter: The Monday Morning That Made Him Stop Being a Boss
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 374 — Eric Rieger: Why Owners Take the Check When They Don't Have a Why
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 375 — Bakari Akil: From $1,000 to $30M Through the LBO Door
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 376 — Brian Will: Don't Win the World and Lose Everything You Built It For
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 377 — John Corcoran: Why Your Podcast Should Be Measured in Deals, Not Downloads
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 378 — Adam Coffey: The Glass Ceiling at $20M and the Mindset Shift That Breaks It
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 379 — Steve Quello: 2024 Planning, EOS, and the Goal Your Annual Plan Is Missing (Part 1)
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Jan 01, 2023
Ep. 380 — Ryan: Reverse-Engineering 2024 From Your Target Equity Valuation [Part 2]
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 261 — Jay Kent: The Hidden Risk in Your Tech Stack
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 262 — Billy Amberg: Funding Growth Without Selling Control
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 263 — Joseph Fung: Your Identity Isn't the Company. It's That You Build Companies.
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 264 — Pete Martin: How to Sell a Services Firm for 12x EBITDA Without Going With the Deal
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 265 — Karen Laine: The Family Business Buyout That Took a Year (and Almost Didn't Happen)
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 266 — Mike Sowers: Your Building and Your Business Are the Same Asset
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 267 — Jon Ostenson: Franchising as a Growth Strategy, an Asset Class, and a Way to Start on Third Base
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 268 — Baird Hall: I Sold Wavve Without a Plan for the Cash
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 269 — Chris Yeh: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 270 — Alejandro Cremades: The Beginning Always Has to Start with the End
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 271 — Pete Seligman: 5 Acquisitions, 3 CEO Seats, and Working Himself Out of Every One
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 272 — Andres Moran: Paper Wealth, Lottery Tickets, and the Two Roles You're Confusing
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 273 — Jennifer Zick: Random Acts of Marketing Are Killing Your Growth
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 274 — Gina Schaefer: Why She Sold 13 Hardware Stores to Her Team Instead of Private Equity
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 275 — Peter Lehrman: Why Your Business Is Stuck in M&A No-Man's-Land
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 276 — Ted Schlueter: The Future Story Your Banker Can't Tell
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 277 — Jay Steinfeld: The Founder Who Stayed Seven Years After Selling to Home Depot
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 278 — Greg Meredith: Why Your Operating System Can't Replace a Real Strategy
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 279 — Doug C. Brown: The Real Reason You Can't Decouple From Sales
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 280 — David Lekach: Building a $34.5M Asset He Didn't Know He Was Building
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 281 — David Lekach: The $34.5M Exit He Ran Himself
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 282 — Dr. Stacy Feiner: The Three Circles You're Trying to Run Alone
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 283 — Mark Lachance: Luck Is a Formula, Not a Fluke
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 284 — Tae Hea Nahm: Stop Paddling. Catch the Wave.
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 285 — Lowell Ricklefs: The Emotional and Technical Game of Selling Your Business
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 286 — Shawn Burcham: The ESOP He Did at 45 (and the Financial Literacy That Made It Work)
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 287 — Andy Cabasso: Escaping the Billable Hour Trap to Build a Sellable Agency
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 288 — Dr. John Shufeldt: The Founder Who Knew He Wasn't the Operator
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 289 — Feisal Alibhai: Stage 3 at 35, and the Five-Minute Handover That Saved the Business
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 290 — David: The Real Killer Isn't Confusing Messaging. It's Generic.
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 291 — David Mann: The Simple Message Hiding Behind Your Generic Marketing
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 292 — Adam Coffey: The Private Equity Math That Decides Your Second Payday
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 293 — Alexis Grant: The Lifestyle Business That Was Actually a Sellable Asset
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 294 — Trish Higgins: The Holding Company Built to Never Sell
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 295 — Mari Tautimes: The Visionary Who Left Before the Exit
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 296 — Dr. Craig Everett: Why Most Owners Think Their Cost of Capital Is Zero
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 297 — Girish Redekar: Bootstrapping RecruiterBox to an All-Cash Exit
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 298 — Larry Anderson: The Cost of Selling a Business You Never Meant to Build
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 299 — Sandy Hansen-Wolf: The Six-Month Plan That Became Eighteen Years
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 300 — Ryan, Pat & Matt: What I've Learned About Intentional Growth After 300 Interviews
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 301 — Bo Burlingham: The Question That Decides Whether You Finish Big or Finish With Regret
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 302 — Dr. Stacy Feiner: The Stakeholder Ecosystem You're Leading at Dusk
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 303 — Rob Dube: The 10 Disciplines for Managing and Maximizing Your Energy
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 304 — Owner Panel with Dr. Stacy Feiner: What Clarity Actually Costs
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 305 — Pat Hobby: Stop Confusing Your Job With Your Asset
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 306 — Ali Nasser: $50M in Apple vs. $50M in Your Own Business
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 307 — Cindy Banchy & Rob Dube: Two Owners Who Actually Run Their Companies Like Assets
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 308 — ITR Economics, GF Data, and ButcherJoseph: Cycles, Multiples, and Capital Stacks Behind the Headlines
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 309 — Pat Hobby: The $7M Estimate That Cashed Out at $2.5M
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 310 — David Diehl: Intrinsic Value Lives in the Cash Flow and the Risk Around It
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 311 — Ted Schlueter & Eric Coonrod: The Premium Lives in the Buyer's Head
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 312 — Chris Yates: Two Buyers, Two Deals, and Why Cash Flow Is the Backstop
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 313 — Pat Hobby: Why Your Best Ideas Feel Like Guesses
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 314 — Steve Schaefer & Jimmy Fritz: The Goalie You Can't Afford to Skip
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 315 — Ryan: The Five Exit Options Most Owners Reduce to Two
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 316 — Sunny Vanderbeck: Inside the Private Equity Black Box
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 317 — Brent Beshore: What If the Buyer Actually Cared What Happens Next?
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 318 — Paul Moffatt: The Buyer Who Doesn't Want to Flip Your Company
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 319 — Peter Lehrman: The Black Box of M&A Advisor Fees, Opened Up
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Jan 01, 2022
Ep. 320 — Walker Deibel: $10 Trillion of Boomer Companies, Not Enough Buyers
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 201 — Dave Diehl: How Uncertainty Reprices Your Business
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 202 — Chris Carlson: The Year 10 Mindset Shift From Top Line to Enterprise Value
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 203 — Gary Braun: Stop Checking In. The 3-Step Sales Reset That Actually Builds Value.
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 204 — Xavier Helgesen: Bake the Mission Into Your Cost of Goods (Not Your Profit Share)
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 205 — Jason Swenk: The 8-Figure Agency Sale and the Two-Year Depression Nobody Warned Him About
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 206 — Jack Stack: How Open Books and Patient Capital Built a Recession-Proof Company
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 207 — Arman Asadi: Why Flow Junkies Sell Their Business and Regret It
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 208 — Kellianne Fedio: You Don't Wake Up and Decide to Sell. You Decide to Plan to Sell.
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 209 — Carl Allen: The 1-in-11 Problem in the Lower Market
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 210 — Sue Hawkes: Unfuckwithable — The Grounded State Most Owners Have Never Felt
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 211 — Bo Burlingham: What Separates a Good Exit From a Bad One
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 212 — Liam Martin: The Remote Work Arbitrage Reshaping Business Valuations
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 213 — Sunny Vanderbeck: What's Actually Happening on the Other Side of the PE Table
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Jan 01, 2021
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 215 — Ann Dougherty: When the Friction Is the Real KPI
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 216 — Patrick Donahue & Nick Eridan: The Capital Gap Between the Bank and the Shark Tank
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 217 — Roy Waterhouse: 13 Years Inside an ESOP, From the Next Generation's Chair
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 218 — Jason Dorsey: Gen Z Isn't Change. They're Bringing What's Normal to Them.
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 219 — Allie Taylor: The Identity Fusion That's Capping Your Enterprise Value
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 220 — Todd Herman: The Alter Ego Effect and Why the Owner Who Built This Can't Scale It
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 221 — Kent Clothier: The Difference Between Owning a Business and Owning a Job
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 222 — Craig Rutledge: The Executive Comp Plan That Pays For Itself
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 223 — Nick Bradley: The Six Peaks of Value and the Founder-to-Scaler Identity Shift
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 224 — Saud Juman: Own Your Exit Before Your Exit Owns You
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 225 — Saud Juman: Pick a Date, Not a Number — Owning Your Exit (Part 2)
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 226 — Pat Hobby: The Mindset That's Quietly Capping the Value of Your Business
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 227 — Arvid Kahl: Zero to Sold in 24 Months on a Two-Person Bootstrap
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 228 — Anese Cavanaugh: Why Burnt-Out Owners Sell the Wrong Asset
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 229 — Gail Golden: The Four-Burner Stove and the Myth of Work-Life Balance
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 230 — Sarah Dusek: The $7M Term Sheet She Tore Up to Save Her Company
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 231 — Elliott Holland: Why Buying and Selling Companies Is a Barbaric Sport
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 232 — Kevin McArdle: My Vanity Metric Is Cash Flow
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 233 — Daniel Marcos: The Valley of Death Between 12 Employees and 60
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 234 — Terri Soutor: The Magic Number Conversation That Made the Exit Possible
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 235 — Mark Johnson: The Pivot That Ended 2020 With More Cash Than It Started
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 236 — Maceo Jourdan: The Market Tells You Zero (And Most Owners Don't Listen)
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 237 — Sandra Shpilberg: Bucking the Silicon Valley Formula and Building on Your Own Terms
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 238 — Mike Smerklo: The Monkey in Your Head and the Search Fund That Built a $1B Company
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 239 — David Hauser: Marginal CAC, Negative Cash Cycle, and the $170M Exit
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 240 — Ron Kite: How a Hired CEO Took Service Express from $2.8M to $240M
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 241 — David Horsager: Trust Is the Leading Indicator of Every Bottom Line
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 242 — Kevin Trout: The Maximum Sustainable Growth Rate Your Banker Won't Explain
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 243 — Shellye Archambeau: Unapologetically Ambitious and the Plan Behind the Title
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 244 — Dan Martell: The Buyback Principle and Why Owners Spend Their Cash Wrong
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 245 — David Asin: The Customer Profitability Curve and Where Your Margin Is Actually Leaking
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 246 — Vicki TenHaken: What Century-Old Companies Do That the Business Books Miss
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 247 — Warren Rustand: Clarity of Vision, Certainty of Intent, and the Hour You Won't Take
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 248 — Austin Brunner: Looking Successful Isn't the Same as Being Free
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 249 — Dave Darmoni: From a Burned-Down Building to a PE Sale, Part 1
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 250 — Dave Darmoni: Why I Sold When My Business Doubled (Part 2 — The Exit Story)
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 251 — Joel Trammell: The CEO Job You've Never Actually Defined
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 252 — Stefan Haney & Kyle Walker: Buying Brands, Not Products
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 253 — Pat Hobby: The Out-of-the-Blue Offer and the Knowledge Gap That Costs You Millions
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 254 — John Rood: The Plan You Didn't Make Before You Sold
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 255 — Corey Tollefson: The Multiple Arbitrage Hiding Inside Your Services Business
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 256 — Rachel Wilson & Elliott Holland: Capitalism as an Antidote for Inequality
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 257 — Alan Beaulieu: Debt Complacency, Reshoring, and the 2030 Great Depression
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 258 — Kylan Gingerich: Why Acquisition Entrepreneurs Are the Missing Buyer for Mid-Market Owners
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 259 — Bryan Clayton: From a $10M Lawn Care Exit to Building the Uber of Lawn Care
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Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 260 — Steve Moss: Why Half Your Executive Hires Fail in 18 Months
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 146 — Chris Shipferling & Jason Somerville: What Your Online Business Is Actually Worth
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 147 — Ilan Jacobson: Sell Now, Or Plan for Fifteen Years
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 148 — Peter Lehrman: There's No Zillow for Your Business. That's the Problem.
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 149 — Chris and Graham McConnell: What If Your Company Had Its Own Private Stock Market?
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 150 — Mike Jackness: The Noose, the Exit, and the Entrepreneur Who Couldn't Stay Retired
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 151 — Steve Harlamert: Five Exits, One Hollow Feeling, and the Day Nobody Sent the Invite
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 152 — Scott Fritz: The 40-Hour Work Year and the Owner Who Refused to Be Needed
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 153 — Kevin Short: The Outrageous Price Hides in What the Buyer Won't Tell You
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 154 — Mary Key: The Successor You're Not Looking For
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 155 — Mike Wickham: Buy It, Build It, Sell It in Five Years on Purpose
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 156 — Jack Stack: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 157 — Sue Hawkes: When Faking It Stops Working
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 158 — Mike Michalowicz: Why Profit Has to Come First, Not Last
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 159 — Duane Smith: Why Half Your Businesses Bring You a Check and Half Ask For One
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 160 — Chris Ronzio: Get Your Business Out of Your Brain Before You Try to Sell It
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 161 — Daniel Grimsrud: The Resentment Bomb That Goes Off When You're Winning
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 162 — Dave Diehl: What an ESOP Actually Is and How the Money Flows
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 163 — Mike Sowers: Rebuilding With Purpose When the Money Stops Being the Point
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 164 — Hannah Paramore: The Series of Losses That Make You Ready to Sell
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 165 — Alexander McCobin & Dan Golden: Profit Is the Means, Not the End
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 166 — Dan Cooper: One Day You're the CEO. Twenty-Four Hours Later You're Just a Dude.
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 167 — Jonathan Slain: Why the Next Recession Is Your Biggest Opportunity, Not Your Biggest Threat
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 168 — Paul Moffatt: Selling to a Family Office vs. Private Equity, and Why the Buyer Pool Isn't One Thing
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 169 — Daniel Moshe: Living in the Owner's Box After Installing EOS
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 170 — Sunny Vanderbeck: How One Week Killed a Billion Dollar Deal
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 171 — Chad Peterson: Why the Best Time to Sell Is When You Don't Want To
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 172 — Chris Yonker: The Identity Trap of the Owner Who Became Their Business
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 173 — Jonathan Thielen: Growing and Selling a Company from the Integrator's Seat
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 174 — Gino Wickman: The Six Traits That Tell You If You Should Take the Leap
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 175 — Todd Ganos: The Blind Spots That Eat Your Exit
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 176 — Ryan: Quit Solving for Annual Income
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 177 — Ken Sanginario: The Risk Score That's Killing Your Multiple
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 178 — Greg Meredith: Your EOS Rocks Are Not a Strategy
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 179 — Pat Hobby: The CFO You Think You Have vs. The One You Actually Need
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 180 — Gary Braun: Six Levers of a Sales Org That Actually Scales
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 181 — Gayle McCann: The Buyback Clause That Let Them Sell Twice
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 182 — David Horsager: The 8 Pillars That Decide Whether Your Team Actually Trusts You
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 183 — David Tramontana: $0 to $50M, 14 Acquisitions, and the Real Cost of Growth
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 184 — Kison Patel: Why Most Acquisitions Fail Before the Ink Dries
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 185 — Steve Prefontaine: 5 Buyers, the Ability to Walk Away, and a $12.5M All-Cash Deal
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 186 — Justin Erickson: The Rural Incentive Game Most Owners Never Play (Labor, Capital, Tax Credits)
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 187 — Mike O'Neal: The Second Bite of the Apple and the Three Levers That Actually Move It
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 188 — Andy Billman: The Bench Behind You Is What I'm Actually Buying
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 189 — Mike Frommelt: The Hire That Decouples You From Your Job
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 190 — Scott Shay: When Cash Flow Disappears Overnight
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 191 — Jim Stelten: The CARES Act Cheat Sheet When Payroll Is Coming Friday
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 192 — Jeff Sands: Cash Is Oxygen — How to Fix Any Business in 100 Days
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 193 — Ilan Jacobson: The Pandemic Didn't Break the System. It Exposed It.
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 194 — Pat Hobby: Bank Balance Accounting Isn't Going to Cut It Anymore
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 195 — Chris Meroff: Making Yourself Expendable Quadrupled His EBITDA
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 196 — Sara Stern: Stop Solving Family Business Problems Through Payroll
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 197 — Alex Chausovsky: Forecasting When Nobody Knows What's Next
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 198 — Lloyd Wolf: From Freelancer to PE Exit, Why He Took the Third-Highest Offer
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 199 — Mike Lee: The Identity Trap That Catches Owners After the Sale
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Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 200 — Ryan: Why "Exit" Stopped Working
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Jan 01, 2019
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 101 — Mike O'Neill: How Selling 60% Can Pay You More Than Selling 100%
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 102 — Laura Rich: The Stage After the Sale Nobody Plans For
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 103 — Mike Rynchek: What Actually Matters Beyond the Sale Price
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 104 — Scott Schwefel: Cash Is Oxygen, and the Offer You Should've Taken
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Jan 01, 2019
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 106 — Jodi Nielsen & David Deshotels: Friends Don't Let Friends Overpay on Taxes
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 107 — Chris Steffl: The Unfunded Buy-Sell and Other Insurance Gaps in Your Exit Plan
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Jan 01, 2019
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 109 — Brandon Wood: How Much Do You Actually Need to Walk Away With
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 110 — Jennifer Fondrevay: M&A Is Messy and the People Side Is Where Deals Die
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 111 — David Mann: The Fear That's Eating Your Margins Hides in Your Messaging
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 112 — Hagen Rogers: The M&A Bridge Most Owners Walk Across Unprepared
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 113 — Daniel Goldstein: Fair Market Value, No Gutting, 134 Years and Counting
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 114 — Brandon Hall: Transferability of Cash Flow Is the Whole Game
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 115 — Ryan Turbes: The Gap Between Your LOI and Your Bank Account
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 116 — John Warrillow: The 8 Drivers That Decide Your Multiple
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 117 — Michael Dash: The Six-Year Lawsuit Hiding in Your Operating Agreement
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 118 — Tom Stewart: The Forgotten Middle Child of the Economy and the Data That Finally Names It
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 119 — Alex Chausovsky: The 10-Year Forecast Owners Aren't Planning For
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 120 — Dave Kauppi: Why Buyers Pay $1.27 for Recurring Revenue and 10 Cents for Hardware
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 121 — Dr. Tom Deans: Sell the Family Business. Even to the Kids.
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 122 — Walker Deibel: The Acquisition Math Your Organic Growth Won't Solve
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 123 — Mike Mooney: Your Reputation Is Already Sitting at the Closing Table
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 124 — Tom Heller: The 20-Year Marathon and the Identity You Have to Unwind Before You Sell
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 125 — Ryan: 2018 Recap and the Five Principles of Growth and Exit Planning
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 126 — Alex McClafferty: Selling to GoDaddy Yourself, Then Walking Away From the Money
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 127 — Colin Engstrom: $5,500 Off Craigslist to a Six-Figure Exit in Four Years
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 128 — Mark Daoust: The Strategic Sale That Cost Me 60 Friendships
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 129 — Stephanie Breedlove: The Walk-Away That Closed a $55M Deal at 11x EBITDA
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 130 — Matt Boettner: The Capital Stack That Bridges the Value Gap
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 131 — Ken Sanginario: Why Company Specific Risk Decides What Your Business Is Worth
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 132 — Luther Ranheim: The Charitable Strategy Most Owners Start Three Years Late
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 133 — Troy Berg: 3X in Three Years Through Sales Discipline and Eight Acquisitions
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 134 — Bill Smith: Funding the Value Gap the Sale Won't Cover
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 135 — Michael Kaplan: Scaling from $300K to $18 Million (Part 1: The Growth Story)
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 136 — Michael Kaplan: The 'Texas Shootout' Partnership Exit (Part 2 — The Exit)
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 137 — Jill Nelson: 10 at 10, Then a $38M Recap on a Service Business
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 138 — Brian Forcier: Opportunity Zones and the 10-Year Bet That Could Rewrite Your Exit Math
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 139 — Rand Fishkin: When You Take the Money, the Goal Stops Being Yours
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 140 — John Garutti III: When the Family Business Sells and You're the Son in the Room
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 141 — Matty O'Reilly: How to Buy Restaurants for Nothing and Sell Them at the Peak
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 142 — Vincenzo Villamena: How to Play Defense — Tax Tips and Tricks to Net More $$
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 143 — Cindy Eckert: Sold for a Billion, Sued to Get It Back
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 144 — Brent Beshore: The Messy Marketplace of Imperfect Buyers
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 145 — Ben Vandenwymelenberg: The Social Mission That Built a Multi-Million Dollar Manufacturer
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 93 — Cammie Greif: Built to Sell, the PE Recap, and the DOJ Block
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Jan 01, 2019
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 95 — Ryan Moran: You're the Prize, Not the Buyer
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 96 — Arlin Sorensen: Run It Like You're Selling Tomorrow
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 97 — Mark Jordan: Don't Take the Buyer's Call Alone
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 98 — Roger Sippl: Three IPOs and the Founder Math He Wishes He'd Known Earlier
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Jan 01, 2019
Ep. 99 — Jeff Smith: Serial Entrepreneur on Why the Exit Is Priority Three
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 41 — Mark Raderstorff: He Sold for Half. He'd Do It Again.
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 42 — Dr. Patrick Porter: Why You Can't Shut Your Brain Off at Night
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 43 — Tim Kieran: The Six Requirements That Got Him All Six
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 44 — Tim Kieran: Landing the Plane with Six Non-Negotiables
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 45 — Stuart Sorkin: Always Be Ready to Sell Your Business
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 46 — Dyanne Ross-Hanson: Why Your Key Employee Bonus Plan Is Funding Itself
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 47 — Richard Wilson: What a Family Office Actually Is (and Why Most Owners Don't Have One Yet)
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 48 — John Carvalho: Valuation Is Not a Number, It's a Deal Structure
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 49 — Kenyon Blunt: Be Happy With What You Get On the First Pass
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 50 — Tom Fafinski: All Cash for a Law Firm and the Liability Trap
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 51 — Thomas Smale: Three Business Models, Three Buyers, and What Online Companies Actually Sell For
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 52 — Cody McLain: The Emptiness That Hits After the Wire Clears
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 53 — Wayne Rivers: Why the Next Generation Has to Be Willing to Walk Away
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 54 — Tim Hall: The Missed Exit That Forced a Better Plan
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 55 — Kevin McCarthy: The Golden Handcuffs You Built Yourself
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 56 — John Thwing: Fundamentals First, Deal Structure Second
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 57 — Troy Schuette: Garbage Was the Vehicle, Not the Passion
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 58 — Cathy Demers: The IPO Path, and Why Majority Shares Don't Mean Control
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 59 — Daniel Zugell: Tax Math the Strategic Buyer Can't Beat
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 60 — Jim Sulciner: The Four-Year Contract That Should Have Been Six Months
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 61 — Ken Sanginario: Every Private Company Is Underperforming (Yours Included)
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 62 — Jim Zuehlke: The Board Your Mid-Market Company Doesn't Have (And Why That's Costing You)
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 63 — Erik Huberman: Build the Sustainable Business First, the Sale Comes Later
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 64 — Travis Steffen: Seven Exits and the Hard Lesson About Finishing
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 65 — Sherry Walling: Your Business Can't Love You Back
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 66 — Brad Yasar: The Inflection Point Where Service Businesses Become Tech Companies
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 67 — Kierran Folliard: Building Irish Pubs, Selling Them to Your Team, and Launching 2 Gingers Whiskey
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 68 — Josh Elizetxe: How to Sell a Service Business at a Software Multiple
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 69 — Jeff Grabow: You're Not Raising Capital. You're Picking a Partner for Ten Years
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 70 — Bobby Martin: The Offer Came Out of Nowhere. The Regret Didn't.
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 71 — Brian Forcier: Defer the Capital Gains Hit When You Sell the Building
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 72 — James Bly and Carrie Hall: Why Generational Transition Is a Process, Not a Plan
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 73 — Kelly Caldwell: The Lowball Offer That Taught Her What the Business Was Worth
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 74 — Chris Voss: The Hostage Negotiator's Rules for Selling Your Business
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 75 — Geoff Green: Freedom, Legacy, and the Two Boxes Owners Forget
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 76 — Marcelo de Fuentes: The Safety Net You Don't Know You Have Until It's Gone
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 77 — Rob Walling: Selling Drip to Leadpages Without Losing the Principles That Built It
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 78 — James Markham: Tax Reform 2018 and Why It's Not Business as Usual Anymore
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 79 — Rob Dube: Sold the Company, Bought It Back, Learned to Do Nothing
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 80 — Bill Casey: The 2018 Deal Market Is the Most Exciting He's Seen in 35 Years
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 81 — Loren Horsager: Why Recurring Revenue Can Triple What Your Business Is Worth
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 82 — Sabina Teshler: Sell When You're Winning, Not When You're Tired
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Jan 01, 2018
AI Draft Failed
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 84 — Karim Marucchi: The Two Buyers Every Agency Owner Needs to Know
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 85 — Larry Anderson: When 99% of Your Revenue Walks Out the Door
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 86 — Sherry Deutschmann: The Employee-First Company That Sold for Real Money
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 87 — Erin Weed: Selling the Business When the Business Is You
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 88 — Vicki Raport: Five Equal Partners, One Clean Exit, and the CEO Hire That Didn't Work
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 89 — Bobby Kingsbury: What the Buyer Actually Sees in Your Business (Part 1)
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 90 — Bobby Kingsbury & Mark: The Deal That Got Done Two Years Before It Was Signed
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 91 — Anthony Bahr: What Your Top Customers Will Tell a Buyer That They Won't Tell You
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Jan 01, 2018
Ep. 92 — Corey Northcutt: The Partners Who Never Said Their Endgame Out Loud
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 0 — Ryan: One Shot to Sell, and Nobody Hands You the Map
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 1 — John Warrillow: The Hub, the Spoke, and the Multiple You Actually Get
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 10 — John: When Mom and Dad Are Gone, All Hell Can Break Loose
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 11 — Bobby Kingsbury: What Private Equity Actually Buys (and the Second Bite Most Owners Miss)
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 12 — Eric Gustafson: I Am Not My Business
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 13 — Bo Burlingham: The Four Things That Decide Whether You Finish Big
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 14 — Kathleen Ferry: From Worth Nothing to a Cash Machine in 11 Years
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 15 — Andrew Warner: Build a Machine That Eats Pennies and Craps Dollars
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 16 — Todd Ganos: The Tax Bill You Can't Plan Around After the Offer Lands
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 17 — Pamela Dennis: Selling a Services Firm When the Whole Asset Is in Your Head
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 18 — Matt Shoup: When More Revenue Made Him Less Money
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 19 — Dean Niewolny: The Smoldering Discontent Behind Your Success
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 2 — Kristy Gusick: The Rebound Business That Almost Cost Everything
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 20 — Lloyd Reeb: Don't Sell the Company Before You Know What's Next
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 21 — Scott Miller: You Tell Me the Price, I'll Tell You the Terms
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 22 — Nina Hale: Do You Want to Be King or Do You Want to Be Rich
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 23 — Lisa Schiffman: 430 Founders, Zero Posturing, and the Ripple Effect of Validation
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 24 — Rob Nelson: Why Your Service Business Isn't Worth What You Think
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 25 — Jamison West: How to Add 15 Points of EBITDA by Killing the Hourly Model
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 26 — Joe Sweeney: Hit the Pause Button Before the Whisper Becomes a Scream
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 27 — Terry Lammers: How 11 Acquisitions Turned Two Trucks Into a $42M Sale
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 28 — Tana Greene: Your Platform Is Already the Calling
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 29 — Norm Brodsky: How $25M in Sales Sold for $110M (and $120M Sold for Zero)
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 3 — Conrad Braun: The MasterCard Buyout and the 3-Week Retirement
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 30 — Chris Yates: Buying Cash-Flowing Websites Like Apartment Buildings
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 31 — Clint: He Who Makes the Gold Makes the Rules
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 32 — Mark Daoust: Why Wearing Every Hat Cuts Your Sale Price in Half
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 33 — John Brown: Why Your Exit Won't Replace Your Income
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 34 — Stever Robbins: The Four Myths That Trap Owners at the Top
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 35 — Mia Hoagberg: After the Exit, Don't Just Write the Check
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 36 — Paul Spiegelman: The Culture Premium and the Buyer Who Almost Killed It
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 37 — Mark Miller: Why You Can't Defer Happiness Until After the Exit
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 38 — Bob Moesta: The Struggling Moment Is Where the Money Lives
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 39 — Jay Coughlan: The Five Choices Between Victim and Owner
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 4 — Kurt Theriault: Buying Into Your Dad's Business Right Before Everything Changed
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 40 — Mark Raderstorf: Knowing Your Number and Trading Time for Money on Purpose
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 5 — Andre Schnabl: The Exit Strategy Hiding Inside an Employee Benefit Plan
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 06 — Chris Goebel: Selling a Family Business When Six Siblings Run the Seats
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 7 — Sam Thompson: Build the Next Chapter Before You Sell the Last One
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 8 — Jon Schindel: How to Sell Your Family Business to Your Kids Without Blowing Up the Family
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Jan 01, 2017
Ep. 9 — Chris Snider: Exit Strategy Is Just Strong Business Strategy
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