The Deal Scout

Mike Jarmuz… or Muzz as his friends say…  is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lightning Ventures, whose focus is exclusively investing in Bitcoin companies. His goal is to evangelize and help demystify early-stage investing to plebs and whales alike. Mike is also passionate about educating founders and operators on strategies to fund their projects. Muzz believes everyone should invest in tech...

Christina Wallace is a human Venn diagram with a career at the intersection of business, technology and the arts. An author, podcaster, serial entrepreneur, and erstwhile theater producer, Christina spent a decade building businesses in New York City. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, an active startup mentor, angel investor, and author of the upcoming book "The P...

Natu helped over 200 real estate investors and business buyers raise a collective $200m for their new funds and acquisitions over the last two years. After Natu helped his first client create an investment bank in Canada, he founded Raises.com (a brand valued at hundreds of thousands) which helps people swiftly create complex private equity funds at lower cost, then secure investor funding. Notabl...

Brian K. Grimes, Jr. CFP® is an Ivy League educated real estate entrepreneur and coach. Upon graduation from Columbia University in 2011 he embarked on a career in Financial Planning at AXA Advisors before transitioning to high net worth asset management at Bridgewater Advisors. In 2015, Brian launched his own real estate development company in his home town of Philadelphia, and has since gone on...

Stacey Brown Randall is the multiple award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, host of the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast and national speaker. Stacey teaches business owners how to generate referrals naturally… without manipulating, incentivizing or even asking.    She has been featured in national publications like Entrepreneur magazine, Investor Business Daily...

Dr. Chau, a Ph. D. and MBA graduate was an immigrant who aspired to live the American Dream. He attempted various enterprises in an effort to obtain financial freedom which he did not achieve as a result of his traditional education. He engaged in the real estate market, but it was with Corporate Housing Arbitrage that he was able to achieve financial freedom and retire in his early 30s. He has si...

Pete Reese is the President of Reelvest Properties, a land development and investment company. With nearly two decades of real estate experience as a broker and investor, Pete has successfully purchased and sold hundreds of pieces of real estate for a profit over the years for himself and on behalf of his clients. He’s on track to earn $4 million in revenue in 2022 with his land flipping and devel...

About our guests: Jordan Isham, Co-Founder of My Tennessee Home Solution, is responsible for the overall vision, brand, and revenue of the company. He is most passionate about aligning the right people and resources with a set of mutually beneficial goals to experience fulfillment together. For that reason, he prioritizes alignment, purpose, growth, and impact with the team. Hailing from a small t...

“In December of 2008, a near-fatal cycling accident threatened to paralyze me for life. I needed a solution, a new way to heal, a way to be free from the limitations of inflammation and pain and get back to my active life. That's how I invented Incrediwear technology. In that sense, Incrediwear is not just wearable technology, it is a lifestyle philosophy.” https://incrediwear.com/ Next Steps...

Kurt Davis is a technology executive and investor with over two decades of experience building tech startups throughout Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia. From 2008-2017, he worked with a startup called Boku where he led global business development, focusing on deals with Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Sony, and more. This book documents and chronicles Boku’s journey from closing small sales deals to t...

Fred Cary, a powerhouse entrepreneur who has founded over ten companies and amassed billions in value. Today, he is focused on helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs get on their paths for success by finding their niches and remaining confident and steadfast along the way. Fred pours all of his business knowledge into teaching the 550,000 new entrepreneurs that decide to start their businesses each m...

Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert. As the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees. Fou...

Commercial growth strategist, storyteller, coach, mentor and advisor at data and analytics oriented technology companies. Has lead teams in various stages of growth cycles (PE/VC backed startups, turnarounds, pre-IPO to IPO companies) to exits via IPO (FactSet), acquisition (EDGAR Online), as well as through several equity/capital raises (FirstRain, Capify). http://www.slingstonegroup.com Next Ste...

Doug Cortina, co-founder and strategic advisor, brings a strong background of hands-on business and entrepreneurial experience to NorCal Cannabis. Doug has successfully led the planning, development and execution of three cannabis projects in the Bay Area. Doug has been involved in the real estate development industry in the Bay Area for the past five years. During this time he has structured and...

I am a West Point graduate, combat veteran, award-winning author and l know the power of a team. As CEO at JFIII Associates, I now help companies build better teams. I bring 40 years of leading and untangling multiple business projects up to $8 billion worldwide and as many as 53,000 associates where I have a track record of building teams, deploying technology and mitigating risk. These include t...

Justin Colby is the CEO and host of The Science of Flipping. He has flipped over 2000 homes and taught thousands his strategies. He is a nationally recognized speaker and author of The Science of Flipping. He owns 3 multi-million dollar companies and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs. https://thescienceofflipping.com Next Steps Share your thoughts with a review - https://www.thedealscout.c...

Born and raised New Yorker. Started my career as a management consultant and ended up in title insurance. Through the years now own and operate a title company and since have become involved with real estate development opportunities. I believe in people first before the deal and always make sure that I am in performance shape for life and business. https://www.cornerstonelandabstract.com Next Ste...

Don’t pigeonhole Elzie D. Flenard III. Don’t even try. Describe him this way, and he’ll point out that one. Change your perspective, and he’ll lead you down another path … maybe without your even realizing. He’s a creative dude, an entrepreneur, a family man, a business owner. No “box” fits. It doesn’t exist. He’s a man of original thoughts, all products of unique thinking. Above all, Elzie is a s...

Kevin Amolsch is a successful real estate investor and private money lender.  He earned his degree in Finance after serving four years in the US Army. After college, Kevin spent two years working with Wall Street as a Mortgage Bond Analyst before leaving to work in real estate financing for investors full time. He and his companies have closed on over 2,200 transactions as a buyer, seller or priva...

James Hilton is an experienced entrepreneur and developer. He is Founder and CEO Xpressify, a fundraising platform for film & television projects. In 2010, while at Babson, he co-founded InforcePro, an insurance tech platform which was acquired by Covr in June 2017. He is the Co-Founder of Xavinci, digital creative agency, and he specializes in strategy and development. He has a Bachelor of Sc...

On this episode of the Deal Scout we chat with an MD who invests in Multifamily Apartment 150+ units in business friendly states with steady cash flow and conservative debt.  Our guest is a medical doctor that also does real estate syndications and has bought over 200 million of real estate in the past 16 months Why start in real estate? How do you balance medicine and real estate? Do you still pr...

Luke Layman is a decorated fighter pilot, serial entrepreneur, investor and transformation coach. With decades of experience leading high performance and high growth organizations, Luke has cracked the code on how to live with INTENTIONAL ALIGNMENT, enjoying all the best that life has to offer while sustainably growing businesses across the globe. He has led multiple 7 and 8 figure businesses as w...

I am an entrepreneur, investor, podcast host & father. I grew my small family franchised auto repair business into an enterprise with ~30 locations. I'm on a mission to teach other entrepreneurs everything I know about growing a business and creating passive income through investments outside of Wall Street. https://www.brianbeers.com/ Next Steps Share your thoughts with a review - https:...

Nate Joens is the Co-Founder, Head of Innovation and past CEO at Structurely. Under his 4 years as CEO, Structurely experienced 10x growth in conversations processed in the real estate industry and built a proprietary conversational AI application that 99.9% of consumers believed was human. Structurely also became a Housing Wire Real Estate Tech Top 100 company, and grew to a team of 26 employees....

As majority shareholder and CEO, Graeme leads United Capital and brings significant expertise in acquisitions and delivering growth. Graeme specialises in consolidating fragmented markets and maximising value from corporate assets. Graeme acquired McGill from KPMG after it entered administration in 2019. Since then Graeme and his senior McGill Scotland team have re-built the business, won several...