Episodes
June 14, 2023
E125: Foot Solutions CEO John Prothro on Acquiring and Growing a Foot Wellness Franchise
CEO of Foot Solutions, a global foot wellness retailer he and a group of investors purchased in early 2020. He is an experienced executive with a background in mergers and acquisitions, operations, and multinational business leadership. He has lived...
June 7, 2023
E124: Ahmed Raza: An Acquisition Entrepreneur Turned Founder And Due Diligence Expert
Founded Rapid Diligence five years ago and our focus is on providing buy-side due diligence services for both online and traditional small business acquisitions. We focus on operational, technical, financial, and legal due diligence and take a...
May 31, 2023
E123: CEO, Jonathan Wilson Discusses Value Creation And Growth Through Acquisition
Jonathan Wilson is a dynamic leader focused on organic and inorganic value creation for start-up, fintech, and more traditional organizations. Jonathan solves complex problems for existing clients, leveraging M&A, Strategy, and Transformative...
May 24, 2023
E122: Practice Leader Of Transaction Strategy And Transformation Group Discussing M&A Opportunities
Kevin Moyer is a Partner & Practice Leader of the Transaction Strategy & Transformation group at Sax LLP, a top 75 public accounting firm. Kevin's team focuses on financial, operational and commercial buy/sell side diligence projects and...
May 17, 2023
E121: Richard Luftig On Powerful Technology Behind Castle Placement For Raising Capital
Richard Luftig is the co-founder and managing partner of Castle Placement, providing investment banking services and raising private equity/debt capital for early-stage and middle market companies across a wide range of industries including financial...
May 10, 2023
E120: M&A Advisor Mathew Saur's Journey from Thiel College to Co-Founding Woolery & Co. in NYC
Matt Saur is co-founder and partner of Woolery & Co., a strategic legal advisory boutique based in New York City that focuses on serving as a partner to its clients as they navigate complex and critical business, governance and strategic...
May 5, 2023
E119: Eric Gall Founder Of Edison Business Advisors And A Registered Broker Based In Florida
Eric Gall is the registered broker and founder of Edison Business Advisors. Over the past 25 years, he has participated in many forms of business transactions including full and partial recapitalizations, joint ventures, spinouts, and roll-ups. Eric...
May 3, 2023
E118: International Entrepreneur Carlos Rodriguez Laconi Discusses His Successful Exit Story
Carlos is an entrepreneur from Argentina, down there he started a farming and exporting business (chia seeds, beans, citrus, etc). He came to the US in 2015 for his MBA where he learned about Search Funds. He took an alternative path for...
April 28, 2023
E117: Malcolm Peace Shares Journey To Successful Small Business Acquisitions - How2Exit
Malcolm Peace is the founder of Tsetserra Growth Partners, a company specializing in buying family-owned small businesses with established Texas Legacies. Unlike traditional private equity and business brokers, Tsetserra uniquely positions itself to...
April 26, 2023
E116: Scott Duke: Founder Of OpnRoad - Navigating Business Transition And Building Sellable Assets
Scott Duke is an M&A advisor and the founder of eleven companies. He started his first company while in university to pay for school without taking on a lot of student debt. The company was a painting company, similar to College Pro. When it comes...
April 21, 2023
E115: Serial Entrepreneur And Author Jeff Wald Discusses Path To Successful Exits - How2Exit
Jeff Wald is the chairman and co-founder of multiple tech startups, a bestselling author, investor, and keynote speaker. He grew up with a lot of support, but wasn't an entrepreneurial child. His first job was at JP Morgan as a mergers and...
April 19, 2023
E114: Eric Grafstrom Helps Small Businesses with Selling Strategies and Valuation Tools - How2Exit
Eric is the founder at ExitGuide, an M&A platform for Main Street businesses. He is a longtime tech executive and entrepreneur who began his career at broadcast.com and worked for Yahoo in the UK and California, eventually moving back into early...
April 14, 2023
E113: Tony Benedict In Merging Technology, Culture, and Processes for Innovative M&A Transformations
Tony is an experienced corporate executive, advisor and board member whose career has spanned two decades at Fortune 500 B2B and B2C companies. Tony is a Partner with Omicron Partners, a strategy, operations and transformation advisory firm where he...
April 12, 2023
E112: Meriplex's Tech Industry Strategies with VP Of Corporate Development & M&A, Neil Medwed
Neil shares how he became the VP of Corporate Development and M&A at Meriplex. He attributes his success to his 39 years of experience in the business, his dedication to technology communities, and God's perfect timing in his life.
Neil Medwed...
April 7, 2023
E111: Uncovering The Rise Of Media M&A With Michael Fink, Co-CEO Of Treasure Hunter - How2Exit
Michael Fink is the Co-CEO of Treasure Hunter, and is currently living in a small city in Munich called Burghausen, which is home to the longest castle in the world. He was invited to the How2Exit Podcast to discuss his experience in buying, growing,...
April 5, 2023
E110: Founder Of Raises.Com, Natu Myers, Discusses Raising Investment Money - How2Exit
Natu Myers is the founder of raises.com, a platform that helps companies raise money. Most of his educational background was in software development and coding. He soon noticed that companies wanted to raise money, but had little knowledge of how to...
April 1, 2023
E109: Jim Afinowich: Longtime Business Broker On Selling Strategies For Mergers And Acquisitions
Jim Afinowich is the managing partner of IBG Fox & Fin and has been involved in over 1100 closings. He shared his origin story, stating that he had owned fourteen businesses between the ages of twenty and thirty-four before deciding that he...
March 29, 2023
E108: Shannon Wilburn: From Struggles To Success - The Journey Of Co-Founding Just Between Friends.
Shannon Wilburn and Ron Skelton discussed how she started Just Between Friends, a consignment sale business. She began it in 1997 when her son was just 2 years old. Just Between Friends is a franchise system with over 150 locations that generated...
March 24, 2023
Roland Frasier: Mentor, Investor and Business Strategist - Interview Highlights
Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/wH-zHBle2ZM
Roland Frasier is an investor and business strategist with over 1,000 acquisitions and exits completed for himself and his clients. His current portfolio includes real estate, restaurants,...
March 22, 2023
E107: Mark Achler: Venturing Into Venture Capital: An Insightful Look Into The Exit Process.
In this episode, they talked about Mark's book, Exit Right. The book focuses on how to sell a business. Mark has sold companies as a CEO, invested in over a hundred businesses, and been on dozens of boards. He also shared why some transactions fail,...
March 17, 2023
E106: Nate Lind - From Start-Up Success To Selling $100M Worth In Transactions as a Broker - How2Exit
Nate Lind, is the author of Maximum Exit - The Definitive Guide for Internet & Technology Focused Business Founders and a business broker at Website Closers, the largest marketplace of $1 million to $150 million dollar Internet, Technology and...
March 15, 2023
E105: Christian Haack: Discusses Working Strategies To Achieve Your Ultimate Payday - How2Exit.
Christian Haack is a Business Development and Strategy Consultant. He helps business owners and executives to make their business acquisition ready, investable and sellable. Christian is known as "The Exit Angel" because he prepares and positions SMEs...
March 10, 2023
E104: Marc Morgenstern, Author, Mentor and Capitalist: Leveraging 45+ Years Of M&A Experience - How2Exit
Marc's new book is "The Soul of the Deal-creative frameworks for buying, selling, and investing in any business". He's the Mentor-at-Large for UC Berkeley's $100MM seed fund and $50MM Opportunity Fund and their portfolio companies, and taught...
March 8, 2023
E103: M&A Advisor Alex Nghiem: From Tech Burnout To Global Exit Expert - How2Exit.
Alex Nghiem is a business broker and M&A advisor who specializes in helping digital agencies, B2B consulting firms and SAAS companies exit at $2M and above. He's also a partner in the SAAS Mastermind who helps SAAS companies scale and exit. In his...