Podcast Episodes

Without backgrounds in business, Julie & Janna Hottinger have grown the $2.1m trades business they bought last year 50%.

An engineer at heart, Mike Dey set his sights on buying a manufacturing business for the next stage of his career.

After 5 years of owning a scale business, Matt Bauer & Chris Hartman were burning out. Fortunately they'd created value.

A background screening company fit the bill as Meredith & Michael Schlinkert sought a local white-collar business to buy

Niklas James, Adam Borcz, and Tony Cappeart reflect on terms, risk & reward of the still-young self-funded search model.

Ryan Sullivan's group is buying businesses with investor capital, SBA loans & operating partners — but it's not a fund.

3 top players in SBA lending to the searcher ecosystem discuss what they're seeing in the market as of summer 2024.

Gabe Perez sought a way out of corporate while Kristen sought a way back to working. Buying a $4m business offered both.

Will Gano was rewarded for his persistence & vision when he bought an 8-figure, 125-year-old ingredients manufacturer.

Rob Carpenter was eager to start operating, so it only took 90 days to start searching then buy a $200k SDE business.