DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer

Brian Asingia impacted a lot of companies with his knowledge of innovation. He is an advisor, asset manager, and author of Cashless Society 101. Brian is also a former Wall Street analyst, has over 10 years of executive strategy experience, and is the chairman and CEO of The Pearl Dream Inc - a company that trains, advises and funds ethical entrepreneurial leaders. In his career, he has explored v...

Robert Raymond Riopel i s an entrepreneur, international best-selling author, app designer, and business trainer who spent over 18 years traveling around the world sharing his passion for self-growth and business. At first, Robert had little on his hands, at twenty-one he started delivering pizzas for Domino’s in his hometown to support his family. After a lot of hard work, he became the Manager o...

Natasha Miller is a CEO who is not afraid of getting her hands dirty. She is responsible for Entire Productions in San Francisco, an event and entertainment production company that produces powerful experiences to her clients—Salesforce, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, and Adobe. During the pandemic, her crew was reduced. She had to find solutions to manage outstanding events with only half of her team....

Back in the early 2000s, artist David Choe graffitied Facebook headquarters and charged $60,000. One of Facebook’s founders convinced him he should take Facebook equity over the money. Fortunately, David did. As it turned out to be worth over $200 million. In this solocast episode, we’ll go through the benefits, harms, and how to trade services for equity. I’m putting this episode out there, espec...

For almost 20 years, Wendy Pease has worked with hundreds of companies to help them communicate across more than 200 languages and cultures.   As a young child, she lived in Mexico, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Through these experiences, she fell in love with the languages and cultures of the world. She came to understand that people around the world are similar. Although how they communicate...

Bill Flynn has collaborated with Alan Mulally, pitched Steve Jobs, accomplished much, failed often, and learned many valuable lessons from thirty years of studying the science of success. Creating efficient businesses is only one of many ways to make the world a better place. In this episode of the DealQuest Podcast, Bill Flynn shares some insightful ways to prevent deal failures.   Why Do De...

Mike Lander is a successful entrepreneur and an expert negotiator based in London, UK with a proven track record of buying, growing and selling businesses. He has a valuable perspective on dealing with commercial deals. He worked on both sides, as a procurement director in MSP organizations and as an entrepreneur. Mike has negotiated hundreds of deals. He is the ideal person to give negotiation le...

I want to talk about something different in this episode. It’s something in the news right now and frankly not a level that we do deals at, but it’s still a deal. This is just more educational in general. What I want to talk about is the Twitter thing that’s everywhere. I’m sure we’ve all heard Twitter is in the news. If you haven’t - Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla has already bought off 9% of Twit...

Steve Preda is an entrepreneur, investment banker and business coach helping GOOD companies become GREAT. He began his career as an accountant, starting on the numbers side and gradually moving to the people side. In the last 20 years, he’s been working exclusively with small to medium-sized businesses. Steve ran an investment banking business between 2002 and 2012 in Hungary and Romania. If you’r...

Matt Remuzzi is the founder of CapForge , Inc, a bookkeeping and accounting firm with over a thousand clients. Matt has always been business savvy, even as a kid. After a career as an agent in a consulting firm, putting small business owners together with venture capital, he bought a catering business, grew it for four years, and ended up selling for double on his investment. He has been involved...

Kison Patel is an entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of M&A Science . He is passionate about the M&A industry and committed to driving it forward. Kison Patel was an M&A advisor for ten years, and during this period, he completed the sales of larger companies such as commercial banks and hotel chains. In 2012, Kison noticed teams lacked efficient technology to manage deals. That was...

In this episode, I explain what a roll-up and how it works. The term roll-up is used to refer to an investor buying companies to consolidate them together. Roll-up is often done in two ways: investors who acquire companies and own them or investors who acquire companies and add build to an exit. Back in the 80s, this strategy of merging companies was more popular, but it was associated with bad ex...

Hall T. Martin is a man who lives in the startup world and has founded several angel groups. He is the Founder and CEO of TEN Capital and Host of the Investor Connect   podcast program. He launched the firm as the Texas Entrepreneur Networks in 2009. Today, TEN Capital has over 15,000 investors in its network and has helped startups raise over $900M. After a career as the 93rd member of a com...

Mark Podolsky is a land geek who’s been buying and selling land since 2001! He is a man who entered the hustling phase from an early stage of his life – always been a kind of deal junkie growing up. Mark is the owner of Frontier Properties , a reputable and successful land investing company. He is the author of Dirt Rich ; the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income. After a career in...

David Wood is a businessman who knows about deals as much as the back of his hand! David got into deal-making early in life and has experience as a consulting actuary for Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. Looks like he’s done it all, right? That’s about rig...

When you think of the word “asset,” what comes to mind? For many people, that one valuable thing they have been investing in is their relationship with clients. It can be seen as an invaluable asset for any business and especially when it comes down how we handle our relationships with others. You can see your clients as a resource to be dealt with, like any other asset. The way in which you inter...

Luke Hohmann is a serial entrepreneur who’s done and been through several phases of business in his career! Luke is the Founder and CEO of FirstRoot , a benefit corporation devoted to creating economic equality. His last company, Conteneo, was an enterprise collaboration software company that helped large enterprises administer more than $3B using Participatory Budgeting techniques.  If you’r...

Do You Know The Lifecycle Of Your Start-Up?   Jeremy Streten is a founder and chief executive officer at Business Legal Lifecycle. He is the author of the Amazon number one best-selling book, “ The Business Legal Lifecycle .” The Business Legal Lifecycle is an innovative legal concept in the law-tech space to help business owners –   - understand complex legal matters in a simple manner...

Bill Bloom is a man who's done it all. He started his first business at age 12 and now has over 30 years' experience as an entrepreneur, husband, father - not to mention driver of classic cars and a podcaster. Bill was a sports card salesman for many years, but he always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When Bill left his job in the industry and created several businesses to help people live their d...

The episode explores the deals that made 2021 a record breaking year, good and bad. There were record numbers in the finance and tech sector in the past year.   It seems that 2022 is going to be another really good year. Psychologically, coming out of the pandemic, everyone is really interested in getting back to business and looking for opportunities to have the capital to do it. &...

David Barnett is a businessman who has learned the ropes the hard way, hands on! He's been through several types of deal-driven growth in his career, not only deals of his own but also by managing deals as a broker for clients. He attributes most of his success to the lessons he's learned along the way. If you're looking for some business advice from someone who has "been there, done that," look n...

Pete Moore is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Dream Architect at Integrity Square (ISQ). The leading boutique financial advisory firm and an early-stage investor in the HALO sector. He started the HALO Sector, HALO Movement and Podcast - HALO Talks . Since founding ISQ in 2010, the firm has played an active advisory role in 100+ mergers & acquisitions, private placement, and advisory a...

Jim Terry is a strategic communications executive with nearly three decades of experience working in local, state, and federal politics. He is the president and CEO of TDS Public Affairs, he has also served as the political director for a US presidential campaign. Jim has an extraordinary drive for helping businesses and organizations navigate the turbulence at the intersection of business and pol...

The podcast episode aims to help people understand what they are getting into with deal brokering. Several aspects of closing deals may not fit your personality and standards, for example: The Nature of the Deal Deal-making is sometimes exhausting - especially if you’re working on multiple deals simultaneously. They could take a lot of time, effort and focus. Sometimes, emotional attachments are f...

Keith is the founder of the K2 group LC, a financial consultancy firm. He has worked with and influenced hundreds of companies to secure funding and financial education. His portfolio also boasts over $100 million closed in investments, focusing on natural products, foods, and beverages. He is also a mentor to many, including women growth labs. Keith has always been fascinated by engineering since...