Acquiring Minds

The First Steps to a Family Holdco


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Family planning and entrepreneurship converged as Linh & Leo Van Deibel bought their first (and not last) business.

Topics in Linh & Leo’s interview:

  • Making the case for business acquisition
  • Taking family planning into account
  • Searching in the UK as a non-citizen
  • Being taken seriously as an Asian woman
  • Their goal of building a holdco
  • Thousands of meetings with sellers
  • Search is a numbers game
  • Brutal IVF process
  • Giving up on acquiring SaaS
  • Buying an engineering consulting firm

References and how to contact Linh & Leo:

  • Linh Van Deibel LinkedIn
  • Leo Deibel LinkedIn
  • Their acquisition, Infrastructure Design Solutions
  • Linh Tran on Acquiring Minds: The Dream Outcome: From $300k to $5m EBITDA

Get a complimentary IT audit of your target business:

Learn more about Walker Deibel's done-with-you buy-side advisory:

  • The Acquisition Lab

Get complimentary due diligence on your acquisition's insurance & benefits program:

  • Oberle Risk Strategies - Search Fund Team

Connect with Acquiring Minds:

  • See past + future interviews on the YouTube channel
  • Connect with host Will Smith on LinkedIn
  • Follow Will on Twitter

Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron

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