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Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
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Sam Blumenthal • Signal Leverage
combination of inside money (cash to acquire the business created from within the four walls of the business itself) and outside money (i.e., not yours) to fund these deals
Roland Frasier • Business Wealth Without Risk
Successful businesses end up gaining market traction with paying customers, and then get on the radar of dashboards that measure visits, sales, upsell and cross-sell, Nour said via email. That’s when the rollup or aggregator companies, which have assembled deep domain expertise in merchandising, branding, packaging, scale, supply chain and lo... See more
Christine Hall • E-Commerce Marketplace Aggregators Are Hot On Thrasio’s Heels As Companies Raise $2.3B
Second, it establishes a network of investors interested in providing equity capital for an eventual acquisition once you find the right business to buy. Third, sellers often ask prospective buyers to demonstrate that they can afford to buy the business; a search-fund group of high-net-worth investors is strong
Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Michael Chen, president of Myco Furniture in Houston, said he had been using factors — groups that buy a company’s receivables at a reduced rate — but switched to credit insurance through Euler Hermes as a way to cut costs and be more selective in what the company insured.
Paul Sullivan • Protecting Your Business, and Your Bank Account, in Case Clients Don’t Pay (Published 2016)
The ecosystem is made up of hundreds of thousands of sellers earnings $25k-$100M of revenues. These are primarily small businesses, run by operators who have found a category niche and built businesses that have scaled even further than many of the owners had expected.