Buy and Build: Acquiring an Online Business & Building in Public

Meet Maximilian - he's the CEO of Basetemplates which he recently acquired. Since he was young, Max has been trying to figure out how to be an entrepreneur. He was programming games and bringing in thousands of players which is quite impressive (while other kids were just trying to get through High School). He exited his first business young, but he didn't stop there and continued his entrepreneurial journey towards other ventures that exploded into a multi-city expansion. We talk to Max about what his experience was building and exiting those businesses, how he's helping other entrepreneurs now, what he invests in as an Angel Investor and how he's launched multiple Product Hunt products with great success. This one is full of nuggets you won't miss!

If you're an entrepreneur, looking to raise money, check out his templates to build out presentations over at https://www.basetemplates.com/

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If you’ve been an avid listener, you probably know most of the people we’ve been interviewing are buying shoplift apps or SAAS businesses. But then comes along someone who opens our eyes. Meet Mushfiq, the website flippa. He has done 175 website transactions on the buy, sell, and broker side! He specializes in SEO, where goes out, finds the right website with a great opportunity, then he puts his SEO mastery on it and determines the best way to monetize the business. Mushfiq jumps into detail with us and tell us about how he got started, he answers all of Darryl’s marketing questions and what he’s up to now. Check this one out to get inspired!

If you want to get more info about Mushfiq, you can check out his website at https://thewebsiteflip.com/

If you want to get in touch with Mushfiq, you can connect with him on twitter at https://twitter.com/thewebsiteflip

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In today’s episode, we speak to the other half of the tech team responsible for inventing the online hashtag hashtag. He’s been a tech executive at some of the biggest companies in the world like Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Landrover as well as launching his own companies in the travel/hotel spaces like Perfect Space & Room Steals, Nate Ritter. Nate tells us about his experience, lessons he learned that other entrepreneurs can learn from and what’s next for Nate.

If you want to get more info about Nate, you can check out his website at https://nateritter.com/

If you want to get in touch with Nate, you can connect with him on twitter at https://twitter.com/nateritter

For those who are avid travellers like myself, Nate has provided a special discount for all guests - use the code buyandbuild for 20% off your first year with Roomsteals https://roomsteals.com/

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In Today's episode, we interviewed a guest that has mastered the art of buying and building businesses. Dominic Wells is the CEO of Onfolio which is a company which acquires and manages diverse portfolios while offering investors a 12% Dividend annually. Dominic has spend the past decade working on his own business acquisitions and profitably growing them until the last few years where he started helping clients diversify their portfolios by investing with Onfolio which his agency will do the work on their behalf. We learn about all the secrets that Dominic has about acquiring and building businesses and the tips he provides to the Buy & Build Audience.

Want to get in touch with Dominic, you can reach him on twitter https://twitter.com/TeamOnFolio

or visit his website https://investinonfolio.com/

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Our next guest has been on the road to buying a business for quite a while. He finally pulled the trigger and we got him on the show to talk about it more. Meet Henry Johnson, he's experience in a number of different businesses, but what he's known for is being an early adopter and getting ahead of the curve (like being an early adopter of Trends by the Hustle). In this episode, Henry talks about the business he purchased, how he intends on growing it as well as his experience of becoming an entrepreneur. For all those on the fence about buying a business, this is one you don't want to miss!

If you want to get in touch with Henry, you can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TalktoHenryJ

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Ever wondered where the online hashtag on social media started? Well look no further. Today we have the guest Chris Messina on the show. Chris has spoken at TEDx, SXSW, Google I/O, Microsoft’s Future Decoded and many other leading conferences as well as featured in many other publications like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wired. He tells us about the infancy of the hashtag, how it began and how it all rolled out. We talk about tech today (like Republic the investment platform for businesses), projects that he's worked on as well as his journey to being #1 Product Hunter on Product Hunt where many businesses launch their software to the next level! 

Want to get in touch with Chris? Connect with him on twitter - https://twitter.com/chrismessina 

Or check out his website here: https://chrismessina.me/ 

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If you're like us, you've probably wondered about the world of Angel Investors. What do they invest in, why do they invest in it and how do I get their attention? Well you've come to the right episode. In today's show we talk to Professor Dr Kevin Taylor who has invested in 20 different businesses and seen hundreds of different pitch decks.  We ask Kevin about his background about creating his business, selling it to Groupon, then moving on to Angel Investing and what he looks for in different businesses. If you're looking for funding, you'll find plenty of gold nuggets, tips and proactive things you can do to help yourself. This is a show you don't want to miss. 

Want to get in touch with Kevin? You can check him out on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ktaylor 

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Scratching his own itch, Sam had an e-commerce store but he was looking for operator to help run his store. Unfortunately, the only solution that he had or was told about was looking within his own network. After realizing this was a pain point in his journey, he decided to resolve this problem because if this was a problem of his, it must be others as well. Thus the creation of Chief Operators. Sam talks to us about how the journey began, what tech stack was involved, how he generated traction with his idea and more. 

If you want to get in touch with Sam, you reach him on twitter https://twitter.com/thesambass

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With the movement of being more and more transparent with the type of work or product developers are producing, it has gain lots of traction in helping build businesses. The old way of thinking is building in the dark, finish your product then start selling. The new way is to describe everything you're changing about your software, how many paying customers you have and what your future plans are. Meet Arvid Kahl, he is one of the innovators and OGs of the Building in Public Movement. Arvid and his partner, Danielle, had a problem. Danielle was teaching english classes but there was an issue giving feedback in a timely fashion and needed a more efficient way of doing things. Feedback Panda was born and it as a painkiller that everyone who taught English knew they needed to have. Arvid discusses with us the origin story of Feedback Panda, how he & Danielle sold the business, the book he wrote about building in public as well as his newest book the Embedded Entrepreneur about how to find your raving fans and building a community around it. You don't want to miss this one.

You can find his newest book here: https://gumroad.com/l/embedded-entrepreneur

If you want to reach Arvid, you can connect with him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/arvidkahl

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Are you tired of writing your own copywriting and emails that take forever to research and think of? Look no further, our next guest had the same problem as you and I, so he decided to go out and build a software/SAAS that would help him create and write content that would help personalize more emails, create custom content like tweets, youtube titles, blog articles and more with the click of one button. We speak to Vaibhav about his experience and journey of how he became an entrepreneur, how he built his software development agency, had an exit, created a few more businesses and ended up running Smartwriter.AI. You don't want to miss this episode.

To get in touch with Vaibhav, you can reach out to him at @veebuv - https://twitter.com/veebuv

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