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How to Hire & Train Virtual Assistants
Colin and Brent discuss their failure to hire virtual assistants in the past and how they plan to do better next time.
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How to Balance Building & Buying Companies & Audience Building on Twitter
Colin and Brent discuss whether they should restart an earlier project, balancing internal and external work, and audience building on Twitter.
New Name! Baremetrics Price Increase, Twitter Hostile Takeover & Product Improvements
Colin and Brent discuss the podcast's new name, baremetrics price increase, Twitter hostile takeover, & product improvements.
Buying Internet vs Non-Internet Businesses & Paid Acquisition Funnel
Colin and Brent discuss Colin's experience buying ads for his micro-pe course and thoughts around buying non-internet businesses.
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How to Increase Prices & Keep Customers Happy
Colin and Brent discuss how to increase prices and keep customers happy
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How to Raise Money & Find Investors for Private Equity Deals
Colin and Brent discuss how to raise money & find investors for private equity deals.
Our Latest Acquisition Story, Leverage, & Danger of Building in Public
Colin and Brent discuss their latest acquisition, leverage, and danger of building in public.
How to Do Acquisition Due Diligence & Smoothly Transition a Business
Colin and Brent discuss how to do acquisition due diligence and smoothly transition a business.
How We Lost a Deal & How We Can Do Better Next Time
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.
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How & Why to Use Debt to Buy a Business?
Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings
Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings
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Productized Technical Diligence, Building Standard Operating Procedures, & DeFi Issues
Joe Liemandt (ESW Capital) Operating Manual - Global Tech Sweatshop
Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Joe Liemandt (ESW Capital) Operating Manual.
How to Give a SaaS a Modern Facelift
Colin and Brent discuss what it took to give a redesign to Blinksale and what they would have done differently.
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DeFi, Wealth Building, NFTs, & the Metaverse with Jason Hitchcock
Colin and Brent discuss DeFi with Jason Hitchcock of Moon Capital
Why You Should Take a Week to Learn DeFi
Colin and Brent discuss what Colin has learned over the last week by doing a deep dive into crypto and DeFi
Hiring Abroad, Structuring Value-Add, & Buying Companies with Pipe
Colin and Brent discuss hiring employees abroad, structuring value-add, & buying companies with Pipe
Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity Partners) Story - Billionaire Software PE
Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Robert F. Smith & Vista Equity Partners with $75m AUM.
How to Run Shared Services in PE & VC
Colin and Brent discuss problems with a startup studio, setting up internal services in PE, and different value-add structures
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Outbound vs Inbound Deal Sourcing & Course/Community Launch
Colin and Brent discuss discuss Colin's new micro-pe course and community and deal sourcing with outbound vs inbound.
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How to Crowdfund a Micro PE Deal
Colin and Brent discuss crowdfunding a micro PE deal from users and the public.
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How to Structure a Private Equity Fund
Colin and Brent discuss discuss how to structure a private equity fund after speaking with LPs.
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Mark Leonard (Constellation Software) Story - Billionaire Software Empire Builder
Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Constellation Software, holding company for 500+ software companies.
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The Deal Process & Evergreen Fund Structures
Colin and Brent discuss micro-pe deal process, evergreen fund structures, and investing in funds.
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Soft Landings for Venture Orphans
Colin and Brent discuss stepping off the VC treadmill, the Micro-PE course production and dealing with lawyers.
Micro-PE Course & Buying vs Building
Colin and Brent discuss Colin's Micro-PE course production and buying vs building Shopify apps.
How to Source Small Companies to Buy
Colin and Brent discuss the different places to find businesses to buy and the pros and cons of each.
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How to Build a World-Class Network
Colin and Brent discuss building a magnet for cool people, protecting your most valuable resource, and Basecamp's drama of the week
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Opportunities in Micro-PE & Picking Our Niche
Colin and Brent discuss opportunities in micro-pe and picking our niche.
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Track Records, Deal Examples, & Business Coaching
Colin and Brent discuss opportunity in niche SaaS companies, avoiding analysis paralysis, and tactics to be present in life.
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What's Not Allowed on our Platform?
Brent and Colin discuss what's allowed on our platform and cohort based courses.
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We Bought Blinksale, a Profitable B2B SaaS!
Colin and Brent discuss why we bought Blinksale, concerns on the deal, and the plan for more acquisitions.
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The Power of Dogfooding
Brent and Colin discuss the power of dogfooding, hiring a VA in the Philippines, and getting your money back from Tony Robbins.
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The One Question to Ask as a Product Owner
Colin and Brent discuss continuing to improve what we do best and building out our team of contractors.
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The Most Efficient Business We Use
Colin and Brent discuss the story of BuiltWith, working with a VA, building, boting, or buying.
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The Founding Story (Start Here!)
Colin and Brent talk about what they've been working on for the past year.
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Setting Up Analytics & Wrestling with Legacy Code
Colin and Brent discuss how to treat customers on old plans, measuring what matters, the beauty of Stripe.
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Setting up a Private Equity Firm
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Pricing in the Creator Economy
How we are thinking about value-based pricing when we don't know our value yet.
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Our VC-backed Competitor is Struggling
Brent and Colin discuss the struggles of Knowable, an audio course competitor, and what that means for us and the broader audio market.
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Our First Coaching Customer
Interview with our first coaching customer, Jackie McNamara.
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OnlyFans & Business Coaching
Colin and Brent discuss the opportunities around OnlyFans, business vs athletics coaching, mentors and therapy.
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Nootropics, Fractional Employees, & Clubhouse
Colin & Brent discuss nootropics, fractional employees, & Clubhouse
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Negotiating a Micro-PE Acquisition
Colin and Brent discuss indemnification and liability caps, starting with a business coach, Roam & daily journaling
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Micro Private Equity and SBA Loans
Colin and Brent discuss the SBA loan process, micro private equity, and management after purchasing.
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Making Audio Courses Interactive
Brent and Colin discuss how good transcriptions have gotten and the possibilities that come with it.
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Improving Conversion Rates
Brent and Colin discuss improving conversion rates and pricing a digital product.
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How We Build Product
Brent and Colin discuss how we build product and work together.
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How to Get Customers Without a Big Budget
The tactics we are using to get our first customers
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How to Cold Email Anyone
Colin and Brent discuss how to cold email anyone and get a response.
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Closing our First Micro-PE Acquisition
Colin and Brent discuss sourcing the first deal, timeline on diligence and closing, and managing the transition.
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AngelList for Acquisitions and Automation Sprints
Colin and Brent discuss the messy market of small acquisitions, standardized docs for transactions, automation & design sprints.
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Amazonification of the Audio Market
Brent and Colin discuss the Audible/Amazon return scandal and our new feedback feature.
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2020 Year in Review
Brent and Colin discuss the popular trends we disagree with, favorite finds of the the year, and predictions for 2021
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