How2Exit: Buy, Don't Build - M&A of Small Businesses

Been buying and selling since 2012, with over $4mil in sales across 165+ transactions, primarily on Flippa.com. Flippas number one broker 2 years running. Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bz7E3Vzayj4 -------------------------------------------------- Contact Joe on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-burrill/ Website: https://www.justwebsitebrokerage.com/ -------------------------------...

Chrisine McDannell is a serial entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She is the Principal and Lead Business Intermediary of The Magnolia Firm, a boutique M&A brokerage firm helping business owners achieve the perfect exit. Since its recent inception, Christine’s firm has already helped countless women cross the chasm from business ownership to their first successful exit, all without compromising...

Wes is a Lancaster, PA based entrepreneur operating the second largest Fastsigns Franchise in the world. He is the husband of an amazing florist and flower farmer Jenelle and the father to two amazing children Emma and Luke. Wes is an avid Premier League fan and Tottenham supporter. His favorite board game has been and always will be monopoly, and a huge Lord of the Rings Nerd. Wes began his entre...

Larry Kaplan has built the nation's leading ESOP investment banking practice at CSG Partners. Since 2000, his team of employee stock ownership plan advisors have guided hundreds of middle market companies through the building and financing of leveraged ESOPs. Employee-owned companies nationwide also trust CSG with secondary sales, plan maintenance, and M&A transactions. Prior to starting C...

After a brief stint in the Army, he worked in the corporate world for a little over a decade before acquiring his first business in 2008. That first acquisition was a hair salon/spa that he helped grow from less than $4 million in revenues to over $7 million in ten years through opening a second location and acquiring a small manufacturing company in their supply chain. During those ten years, he...

💎 Darren Jacklin has trained 157 Fortune 500 companies. 💥Traveled 48 countries on 4 continents. 💥 World-Class Speaker, Corporate Trainer who has personally trained over 1 million people in person Globally. 💥 Has rang the Closing Bell 🔔 at Nasdaq twice in New York City. 💥Global Traveler committed to raising $100 Million USD for Global Philanthropy Projects through his Family Foundation. 💥Boa...

Empire Flippers is the #1 curated marketplace for buying and selling online businesses. With 16 unique business models, including e-commerce, SaaS, content sites, FBA, and more. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Gregory joined Empire Flippers in 2016 as their Content Manager. Now as Director of Marketing, his goal is to take Empire Flippers more mainstream as an M&A brand and to help investors see th...

The Death of Mentors and Gurus - How2Exit interviews ChatGPT to Learn About M&A And How To Buy A Business SUMMARY In this conversation, artificial intelligence Ali Penman a pen name he gave ChatGPT by Openai, and the host of How2Exit discuss what an SMB is, why buy versus build as an entrepreneur, and the steps to acquire a business. Ali Penman and Ronald Skelton discuss the reasons why an ent...

Ian Pavlik is the former Founder and President of pavliks.com and The Portal Connector. An IT solutions company based out of Ontario Canada with Customers and Partners around the Globe. Ian was a former professional Alpine ski racer who transitioned into the business world in the early 90's when he took over the family marketing and advertising business and pivoted it towards the IT space in the l...

Hayden is the founder of Kingmakers Inc, a holding company that makes investments in acquisition entrepreneurs and the companies they purchase. He is also the founder of Acquira, an Accelerator for acquisition entrepreneurs that helps people not only find, finance and purchase a business, but also helps them become management-run and introduce best practices. --------------------------------------...

Sendinblue, an all-in-one digital marketing platform that supports more than 400,000 active users across 180 countries. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing global M&A strategy and scaling Sendinblue’s growth in North America. He has over 15 years of experience as a business and digital marketing leader. Prior to joining Sendinblue, Steffen was the founder and co-CEO of Newsletter2Go,...

The Dealmaker’s Academy At The Dealmaker’s Academy, our team of business experts have a wealth of knowledge regarding business mergers and acquisitions. Our team is led by Jonathan Jay, a seasoned businessman with a host of successful business purchases to his name. With more than two decades as CEO of The Dealmaker’s Academy, Jonathan not only has the experience and skills to masterfully handle a...

Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors, building high-value companies. Over the last decade, he has built, bought and sold 26 businesses with a combined valuation of $5.2 billion dollars. He also works with Private Equity and Venture Capital firms across the UK and the US leading business turnaround...

Mushfiq has been active in the online business space since 2008, with over 215 website exits to date. He acquires assets and applies his skillsets of digital marketing to grow them. Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/4S6050Fw5xk -------------------------------------------------- Contact Mushfiq on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mushfiqsarker/ Website: http://thewebsiteflip.com/ https://w...

Ryan Tansom started his entrepreneurial career at his family business where he was the Executive VP and responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial strategy of the $21 Million company. Ryan helped turn the company around and bring intentional focus to the right strategies which enabled it to be sold for 8 figures to a local competitor in 2014. Ryan took his experience and founded Ark...

How2Exit Episode 76: John Kettley - Serial Entrepreneur, Business Investor & Turnaround Specialist Serial entrepreneur, business investor & turnaround specialist. He is fast becoming known as one of the SME communities most inspirational M&A business development speakers and deal JV Partner Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ko7utsddq_w -------------------------------------------------- Contact...

With over 20 years experience in the healthcare sector Ross has a global focus and vision of improving health and wellbeing worldwide and am the Founder of TDH Capital. TDH began in 2006 and has evolved over the years into its current form, acquiring eight other businesses along the way. In addition to our own M&A activity, Ross mentors other business owners who want to scale their businesses usin...

Co-founded Netsurit over 24 years ago during the lead-up to Y2K. At the time, organizations were being ripped off by IT companies and paying a fortune for the technology they did not need. My partners and I saw an opportunity to provide managed outsourced services for companies and differentiate ourselves by being honest, ethical, and fair. Since that time, Netsurit has established 5 locations aro...

Ahmie is the founder and CEO of Interchange Capital Partners - a family business that has honed a comprehensive and collaborative process over its 40 years of practice in financial services and is dedicated to helping clients and their families build financial safety nets. With over 40 years of practice in financial services, with a clientele of business owners trying to transition to retirement,...

Michael Frankel has held c-level executive roles (corporate development, strategy/innovation, CFO, COO) at large and small growth companies. He is a Corporate Development, Innovation, Strategy and Corporate Venture leader who has driven disruptive innovation and aggressive growth/expansion at global technology, information services and professional services companies including Deloitte, LexisNexis...

Chris has 20+ yrs. Experience in M&A and has been involved in over 50 transactions in various roles, including establishing and managing the Integration Management Office and leading individual integration tracks, such as IT, sales and finance. He has performed these roles internally to companies such as Cisco and Symantec and as an external consultant. --------------------------------------------...

CEO of Centurica, the premium provider of buy-side due diligence services for online acquisitions. 10 + years online entrepreneur, investor and Yogi. Centurica, works with a large range of individual investors, funds and PE firms to help them: 1) Verify that the business is what the seller is reporting 2) Uncover and hidden risks that could derail the business 3) Identify key opportunities for imp...

CEOs typically place their first call to Coach Kevin with a crisis to solve. They stay because of his business acumen and no-holds-barred, tell-it-like-it-is style. Kevin’s career spans 30 years, over a dozen countries and four continents. He’s worked with hundreds of CEOs and executives, helping them to break through business challenges, grow their companies and find personal success along the wa...

Darius Ross hails from the old days before Acquisition Entrepreneurship became in vogue, from the days of the go-go 80's...during a time period where leverage buyouts and M&A's were the hot topic. 35 years later, he is now focusing on LBO's and rollups. Nick-named the "Wyatt Earp" of small business investments for his characteristics of going into lawlessness in pursuing small market opportunities...

Daniel Sweet is a 27-year technology industry veteran who decided life was more interesting buying and improving s businesses. Now the Managing Partner of Sweetview Partners, he leads a team in the buying and growing of small, Texas-based BtoB companies. -------------------------------------------------- Contact Daniel on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielrsweet/ Website: https://sweetvi...