Colin and Brent discuss niching down a software business to own one space to grow faster.

Colin and Brent discuss Andrew Wilkinson and Chris Sparling going public and how to structure a holding company with LLCs, C-Corps, QSBS, and more.

Colin and Brent discuss a competitor being bought and how Constellation buys so many companies.

Colin and Brent discuss 2022's wins, losses, and learnings building a software holding company.

Colin and Brent discuss how to build trust to close deals with sellers and investors.

Colin and Brent discuss transitioning and growing Scout since they bought it.

Colin and Brent discuss buying Scout, the leading dog walking and pet sitting software.

Colin and Brent discuss seller side financing, pros, cons, and why everyone does it.

Colin and Brent discuss growing a business with a broken funnel, buying the rights to an out-of-print book, and $20k AWS bill.

Colin and Brent discuss how they conduct due diligence and simplifying the legal side of acquisitions.

Colin and Brent discuss pros and cons of venture capital, private equity, and startup studios.

Colin and Brent discuss Brent's experience at the Holding Company conference and their most recent dead deal.

Colin reads out his operating manual on John Malone, billionaire cable cowboy.

Colin and Brent discuss their deep work approach, productivity hacks, and sleep training

Colin and Brent discuss their content consumption and creation and why they spend so much time thinking about it.

Colin and Brent discuss buying companies in a downturn and Colin's new cohort-based course.

Colin and Brent discuss their failure to hire virtual assistants in the past and how they plan to do better next time.

Colin and Brent discuss whether they should restart an earlier project, balancing internal and external work, and audience building on Twitter.

Colin and Brent discuss the podcast's new name, baremetrics price increase, Twitter hostile takeover, & product improvements.

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's experience buying ads for his micro-pe course and thoughts around buying non-internet businesses.

Colin and Brent discuss how to increase prices and keep customers happy

Colin and Brent discuss how to raise money & find investors for private equity deals.

Colin and Brent discuss their latest acquisition, leverage, and danger of building in public.

Colin and Brent discuss how to do acquisition due diligence and smoothly transition a business.

Colin and Brent discuss how and why we lost a deal we spent months working on it and what we can do better next time.

Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Joe Liemandt (ESW Capital) Operating Manual.

Colin and Brent discuss what it took to give a redesign to Blinksale and what they would have done differently.

Colin and Brent discuss DeFi with Jason Hitchcock of Moon Capital

Colin and Brent discuss what Colin has learned over the last week by doing a deep dive into crypto and DeFi

Colin and Brent discuss hiring employees abroad, structuring value-add, & buying companies with Pipe

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Robert F. Smith & Vista Equity Partners with $75m AUM.

Colin and Brent discuss problems with a startup studio, setting up internal services in PE, and different value-add structures

Colin and Brent discuss discuss Colin's new micro-pe course and community and deal sourcing with outbound vs inbound.

Colin and Brent discuss crowdfunding a micro PE deal from users and the public.

Colin and Brent discuss discuss how to structure a private equity fund after speaking with LPs.

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Constellation Software, holding company for 500+ software companies.

Colin and Brent discuss micro-pe deal process, evergreen fund structures, and investing in funds.

Colin and Brent discuss stepping off the VC treadmill, the Micro-PE course production and dealing with lawyers.

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's Micro-PE course production and buying vs building Shopify apps.

Colin and Brent discuss the different places to find businesses to buy and the pros and cons of each.

Colin and Brent discuss building a magnet for cool people, protecting your most valuable resource, and Basecamp's drama of the week

Colin and Brent discuss opportunities in micro-pe and picking our niche.

Colin and Brent discuss opportunity in niche SaaS companies, avoiding analysis paralysis, and tactics to be present in life.

Brent and Colin discuss what's allowed on our platform and cohort based courses.

Colin and Brent discuss why we bought Blinksale, concerns on the deal, and the plan for more acquisitions.

Brent and Colin discuss the power of dogfooding, hiring a VA in the Philippines, and getting your money back from Tony Robbins.

Colin and Brent discuss continuing to improve what we do best and building out our team of contractors.

Colin and Brent discuss the story of BuiltWith, working with a VA, building, boting, or buying.

Colin and Brent talk about what they've been working on for the past year.

Colin and Brent discuss how to treat customers on old plans, measuring what matters, the beauty of Stripe.

How we are thinking about value-based pricing when we don't know our value yet.

Brent and Colin discuss the struggles of Knowable, an audio course competitor, and what that means for us and the broader audio market.

Interview with our first coaching customer, Jackie McNamara.

Colin and Brent discuss the opportunities around OnlyFans, business vs athletics coaching, mentors and therapy.

Colin & Brent discuss nootropics, fractional employees, & Clubhouse

Colin and Brent discuss indemnification and liability caps, starting with a business coach, Roam & daily journaling

Colin and Brent discuss the SBA loan process, micro private equity, and management after purchasing.

Brent and Colin discuss how good transcriptions have gotten and the possibilities that come with it.

Brent and Colin discuss improving conversion rates and pricing a digital product.

Brent and Colin discuss how we build product and work together.

The tactics we are using to get our first customers

Colin and Brent discuss how to cold email anyone and get a response.

Colin and Brent discuss sourcing the first deal, timeline on diligence and closing, and managing the transition.

Colin and Brent discuss the messy market of small acquisitions, standardized docs for transactions, automation & design sprints.

Brent and Colin discuss the Audible/Amazon return scandal and our new feedback feature.

Brent and Colin discuss the popular trends we disagree with, favorite finds of the the year, and predictions for 2021