Let’s Buy a Business
Buying a business is a blend of process, timing, and luck. A few times a week Ryan Condie shares the deals he’s looking at in a short form podcast. Listen in on updates from investors and bankers. Whether you’re buying a business to own and operate or building up your passive income, you’ll learn what to focus on and what to avoid during acquisition.
Episodes
Tyler Mumford is an absolute beast. He had a high-flying tech job in sales and got sick of the grind. He heard of idea on The Koerner Office (fantastic show) and within 6 weeks, was making money as an owner.This is an amazing episode.
Podcast Nuggies
- Why start vs buy? How he determined buying wasn’t right for him at the ripe age of 26.
- Franchise path
- How to start that entrepreneurial muscle right now
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Patrick McMillan from Amplēo does a deep dive into financial due diligence, cash flow, and business operations!
This guy knows his stuff and seen firsthand how bad things can get without proper due diligence and financial understanding.
Podcast Nuggies:
- Cash flow fundamentals
- Founder Fraud! What $1M disappearing does...
- M&A activity in early 2025—lots of quality of earnings reports happening, a balanced buyer-seller market.
- Ta...
Over the last seven years, Jodie has lived in different countries while managing her business, exiting, writing books, and training/competing as a powerlifter. She's just 32 years old (ish) and has put herself in a position to never work again—just for money.
She wrote Ten Year Career: Reimagine Business, Design Your Life, Fast Track Your Freedom.
We dive into…
— Designing your life consciously
— Businesses that are fun to run are...
Chase Murdock is a legend. He is one of the most genuine people I know and the founder of Decada Group. Decada Group is a holding company in Salt Lake City, UT.
He’s self-funded a holding company with a custom suit shop, an art school, a construction company, and more.
Podcast Nuggies
- Building a holding company and long term businesses on their own terms
- Repeatable Playbooks across industries
- Digging deep for 12 months, and th...
Nick Akers is incredibly talented in every niche or category he joins. I do not want to compete with Nick in anything. He started out as chemist, invented and patented several inventions, raised VC money and sold to a strategic before joining the family business.
After running the family business, Nick struck out on his own to acquire Inzo technologies.
Podcast Nuggies
- How to dial in your search criteria
- Where he’d spend more ...
James Richardson, a former PwC employee, shares his journey from the corporate world to small business acquisition.
This is such a fun episode with his background and the massive switch to business owner.
Podcast Nuggies:
- PwC to entrepreneurship!
- Confidence gained from high-pressure situations can be valuable in entrepreneurship.
- Understanding financial statements is crucial in small business acquisition.
- Finding off-market ...
Help! I'm trying to buy a business....and just realized it's non-transferable...now what?
A non-transferable business is dependent....
- On the owner
- The Owner Personality - they are locally famous.
- The Owner Network
- The Owner goodwill in the community.Or basically anything remotely close to those.
Free SBM Financial Courses
https://letsbuyabusiness.com/courses/
(ROBS) Business FinancingTenet Financial Group - www.tenetf...
Deal Deep Dive! A few that I pass on and why...one that could be interesting.
Rural ISP - https://www.bizbuysell.com/
White Label SEO Agency - https://www.bizbuysell.com/
B2B Equipment Distributor - https://quietlight.com/
I did something stupid, and I'm going to do it again.Here is a brief story about achieving one of my massive life goals: running a 100-mile race in the mountains.
206,000 Steps
23,000 ft of elevation increase
55,000 ft of elevation change
33 Hours
6 Huge Bucks
1 Fat Porcupine
1 Angry Bull Moose
0 Barfs
and...100 Miles
Want to learn more about my trail adventures?
Go to Ultrasignup.com and search my name.
Free SBM Financial Cour...
Darin Pierson is a CPA and an entrepreneur. He’s started businesses and even bought a business too. This is a critical episode for anyone getting real on buying / scaling a business.
Darin always created the FREE SMB Financials Class on our site.
Podcast Nuggies:
- Optimizi...
Am I picking the right partner?
- Trust
- Complementary Skills
- Shared Goals and Lifestyle
- Commitment Level
- Assessing Risk
A Few Key Questions:
What do you want out of this business?
What is success here?
What if we have an extra $50k in profit? What would you want to do with it?
MORE COMMON - What if we needed to put in extra money into the business? Can you do that?
Equity split...
Free SBM Financial Courses
Raleigh Williams is one of my favorite people. Not a stranger to the show, 2nd time at least but he always packed in so much value. He’s bought, scaled, sold so many businesses. AND my favorite part of Raleigh is him betting on himself years ago after dropping down a pretty penny on a law degree. Raleigh walked away from a huge attorney career and salary to live life on his own terms.
We dive into Phantom Equity though.
Podcast Nug...
Would you switch Warren Buffett age and net worth?
94 years old and $143B Net Worth.
No. You wouldn't. So I don't wish for it to be lunchtime either.
Free SBM Financial Courses
https://letsbuyabusiness.com/courses/
(ROBS) Business FinancingTenet Financial Group - www.tenetfinancialgroup.com - diane@tenetfinancialgroup.com
Ready to level up but not 1 on 1 consulting?
**How to Buy Your First Small Business through Acquisition E...
Andrew Gazdecki is the founder and CEO of Acquire.com (used to be MicroAcquire.com) and is one of my favorite people in the M&A space. He's an incredibly successful entrepreneur and now helps facilitate buyers and sellers for smoother transactions.
Podcast Nuggies
- Insane growth with AI companies
- Helping a buyer/seller find a workaround on financing when the lender pulled out in the 11th hour.
- 2024 Market Conditions + 2025 Pr...
How do you win competitive deals?
Be Human, Get Creative (not weird seller financing people), and stand out.
Free SBM Financial Courses
https://letsbuyabusiness.com/courses/
Want to invest in amazing entrepreneurs with vetted deals?
Send a note to monica@letsbuyabusiness.com
Ready to level up but not 1 on 1 consulting?
How to Buy Your First Small Business through Acquisition Entrepreneurship
Jared Johnson is an SBA lender but also a business acquirer!
He's bought 2 businesses and sold 1. This is a fantastic episode from someone who has been in the trenches for a long time.
Podcast Nuggies:
- What has changed over the years
- What a perfect deal looks like
- Examples of deals falling apart in the 11th hour
Host of the Before You Buy or Sell a Business Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-you-buy-o...
Are you bringing energy to a conversation or sucking the energy out?
I have meetings with thousands of people a year.
I dive into 5 ways to see if you add energy or suck energy out of every interaction.
- Do you only talk about yourself in conversations?
- Who does the talking?
- Do you truly remember what was said on the other line?
- Do you pat yourself on the back?
- How often do people pick up your phone calls?
TL;DR - People...
Spencer spent 6+ years searching for a business to buy. Life happens fast and many things paused his search over the years.
Spencer is real here and we dive deep into a LONG search...
A few he got serious with...
- Melatonin Supplements for Kids
- Computer Chip Business
- Drive-Thru Technology
Podcast Nuggies
- Why his search went from a huge company to a STABLE company
- How to navigate life during your search
- How Spencer...
Entrepreneur Origin Stories - Quick dive into some pivotal moments for Daddy Yankee.
Less about buying a business and more about a reinvention of oneself.
Free SBM Financial Courses
https://letsbuyabusiness.com/courses/
Want to invest in amazing entrepreneurs with vetted deals?
Send a note to Monica@letsbuyabusiness.com
Ready to level up but not 1 on 1 consulting?
How to Buy Your First Small Business through Acquisition Entre...
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