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EP16 7 Figures acquisition. Interview with Jaime Arias, industrial engineer turned acquisition entrepreneur

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In this episode, we have Jaime Arias, he's an acquisition entrepreneur. He completed his first of a few acquisitions over the past two years. An engineer by trade and a Harvard MBA graduate, he found acquisitions entrepreneurship and fell in love with it; now he's growing an online business and potentially buying more.

Podcast Highlights:

  • Jaime discusses how he embarked on his journey to Acquisitions.
  • He shares the challenges he faced while making his decision to be an acquisition entrepreneur.
  • He shared where he learned about acquisition entrepreneurship.
  • What criteria does he use to choose which business to buy?
  • How COVID has affected his search and sourcing process.
  • When he was in business school, what were the differences compared to when he was running his search process and acquisition?
  • Why he didn't like buying agencies.
  • He describes the business he bought and explains what Patients4you does and how it works.
  • How he started his business without a team when he bought it and slowly built it up.
  • Which is the primary source of their clients' leads, Google AdWords or SEO, or both?
  • He shares his plans for his business in the next few years if he intends to acquire more businesses.
  • Jaime answers the question of what he would do differently if he could go back five years.
  • He recounts his experience going through the process of assessing investors.
  • He shares some advice with aspiring entrepreneurial investors.

    • Resources Mentioned:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-arias-b37a2278/

    https://patients4you.com/

    https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-buying-a-small-business/10090

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