Michael Girdley (@Girdley), Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) and Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) are joined by Andrew Gazdecki (@Agazdecki) to talk about 2 Deals: A Shopify automated SMS and an eCommerce Cartoon generating illustration company. We also talk about how we see buyers, market prices, government financing grants, and more.
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Acquisitions Anonymous Episode 100!

Show Notes:

(1:14) - Morenow.co

(3:06) - Andrew Gazdecki is our Guest today!

(9:12) - What are you seeing on the buyer's side? 

(13:01) - Government financing grants

(14:29) - How do we see the market right now? What’s going on with the prices?

(15:51) - Deal 1: Shopify automated SMS tool

(16:00) - How does it work? How do we understand its value?

(19:00) - Why is this business so profitable? What is their cost structure like?

(20:40) - What is the technology like for this business? Is there proprietary software here?

(22:00) - Who would buy this?

(25:02) - What is the challenge of starting this business?

(26:00) - QSBS tax treatment: How does it work?

(29:00) - Deal 2: eCommerce Cartoon generating illustration company

(30:35) - How do we think about this business? What is the CAC like?

(34:10) - What is the durability of the revenue stream?

(35:50) - Bonus deal: Procurement software Saas business

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Past guests on Acquanon include Nick Huber, Brent Beshore, Aaron Rubin, Mike Botkin, Ari Ozick, Mitchell Baldridge, Xavier Helgelsen, Mike Loftus, Steve Divitkos, Dzmitry Miranovich, Morgan Tate and more.

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#96 From W-2 to Business Owner - Patrick Dichter tells us how to cold reach sellers and we discuss 2 Deals

#92 Wait... what? You laid-off 90% of your staff?!? - Pete Erickson joined

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