Indie Acquisitions

We Bought a Bankrupt Software Company

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:43:51 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss buying Prolifiq, a bankrupt enterprise software company.

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How to Build High-Performing Teams in Latin America

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:29:22 -0500

Colin discusses everything he has learned about building teams in Latin America.

- When and how to hire globally
- Best roles and places to hire
- Share how others are doing it
- Common mistakes to avoid

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Hard Lessons Learned Scaling a Startup in Year 1

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:21:14 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss their wins and losses and lessons learned in the last year.

Colin's lessons learned in year 1: https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/hard-lessons-learned-scaling-a-startup

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Bending Spoons Breakdown (Italian Constellation Software)

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:31:11 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how Luca Ferrari & Bending Spoons built its holding company.

Colin's breakdown of Bending Spoons: https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/bending-spoons-operating-manual

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How to Deliver Unreasonable Hospitality

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:09:50 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss great books, customer support, tech diligence, a Latin American staffing firm.

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How to Deal with Lawsuits & Ransoms

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:39:44 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss lawsuits and ransoms they've dealt with and seen.

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Capital Camp 2024 & Tough Turnarounds

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:46:13 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's learnings from Capital Camp 2024 and tough debt turnarounds.

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How We Use AI to Replace Employees

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:25:26 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how they are using AI to write code and do marketing for their software companies.

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Visiting a Secret Club, Austin, Latin America Hiring & Remote Teams

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:50:15 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Brent's secret club, visiting Austin, launching a Latin American staffing company, and managing remote teams.

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How Double Your Software Business With Services

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:34:15 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss the process of adding services to grow their software business.

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How to Use Traction / EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Scale Your Business

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:28:14 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss implementing Traction / EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) at their software company.

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2023 Recap: Wins, Losses, & Learnings

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:03:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss 2023's wins, losses, and learnings building a software holding company.

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We Sold Our SaaS Business! Learnings & Process

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:24:05 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss selling their first SaaS acquisition in Blinksale and the process and learnings from doing it.

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How to Raise Prices & Launch Growth Services

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:13:40 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss raising prices, launching their new google review service, and buying vs building.

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How to Buy a Venture Capital Orphan (Real Example)

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:45:50 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss buying a venture capital-backed company that's in distress.

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6 Month Review of a SaaS Acquisition

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 06:32:32 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's their acquisition of Scout (scoutforpets.com) 6 months in with growth channels, what's worked, and what's happened.

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How to Bootstrap a $300m Tourism Vertical SaaS

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:29:06 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's breakdown of FareHarbor and Peter Attia's $150,000 longevity playbook.

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How a Ex-Googler Built a $220m Vertical SaaS in Flooring

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:54:32 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Brent's Scout update, building vertical software for flooring, and buying a house vs buying a business.

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We Made a Huge Mistake

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:53:09 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Scout's bumpy product launch and rebuilding trust.

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How the Pritzkers Made Their Billions Through Acquisition

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:40:36 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Jay & Robert Pritzker / Marmon Group Business Breakdown https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/jay-...

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Brent Beshore & Permanent Equity Business Breakdown

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 03 May 2023 10:30:01 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how Brent Beshore's Permanent Equity built its holding company.

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How to Manage & Grow a Remote Team

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:59:30 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how we are managing and growing our remote team.

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Software Companies Are Dead. ChatGPT Killed Them.

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:01:25 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss the impact of ChatGPT and AI on software companies.

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How To Build an Offshore Tech Team & Transition Challenges

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:48:26 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss all things tech. How to build an offshore team and limits of tech debt.

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How to Bootstrap a Startup from $0 to $1 million in ARR

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 07:11:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how to self-fund / bootstrap the perfect startup from $0 to $1m in ARR and whether you need a technical co-founder.

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How to Find Riches in Software Niches

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:26:46 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss niching down a software business to own one space to grow faster. https://www.blinksale.com

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Tiny Goes Public & How to Structure a HoldCo

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 05:25:28 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss Andrew Wilkinson and Chris Sparling going public and how to structure a holding company with LLCs, C-Corps, QSBS, and more.

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Buying 134 Software Companies in a Year

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:33:30 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss a competitor being bought and how Constellation buys so many companies.

Sorry for the echo on Brent's audio. We switched to Riverside for this recording and had some issues. I fixed it as much as I could.

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2022 Recap: 2023 Opportunities, Wins, Failures, & Lessons

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 08:39:47 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss 2022's wins, losses, and learnings building a software holding company.

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How to Build Trust to Buy Companies & Sell Products

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:34:01 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how to build trust to close deals with sellers and investors.

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How to Transition & Grow a Company After You Buy It

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:10:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss transitioning and growing Scout since they bought it.

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We Bought Scout! Learnings & Negotiation Play-by-Play

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss buying Scout, the leading dog walking and pet sitting software.

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How You Can Buy a Business With the Profits From the Business

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss growing a business with a broken funnel, buying the rights to an out-of-print book, and $20k AWS bill.

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Product Led Growth vs Enterprise Sales, Buying the Rights to an Out-of-Print Book, Lebron of Pickleball

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:49:01 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss growing a business with a broken funnel, buying the rights to an out-of-print book, and $20k AWS bill.

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What Matters in Acquisition Due Diligence & Warren Buffett Handshake Deals

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how they conduct due diligence and simplifying the legal side of acquisitions.

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Pros & Cons of Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Startup Studios

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:22:16 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss pros and cons of venture capital, private equity, and startup studios.

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Losing a Deal to Mark Leonard, HoldCo Conference & a $100M NFT Fund

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:14:01 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Brent's experience at the Holding Company conference and their most recent dead deal.

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John Malone Operating Manual (Billionaire Cable Cowboy)

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:54:10 -0500

Most of this comes from the book:

“Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business” by Mark Robichaux
“The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success” by William Thorndike

John Malone Operating Manual

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Deep Work, Productivity Hacks, & Sleep Training

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss their deep work approach, productivity hacks, and sleep training

Snoo Smart Sleeper Baby Bassinet Brent reviews.

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How to Become a Lighthouse for Like-Minded People

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:07:39 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss their content consumption and creation and why they spend so much time thinking about it.

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Buying Companies in a Downturn & Launching a Cohort-Based Course on Acquisitions

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:01:07 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss buying companies in a downturn and Colin's new cohort-based course.

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Hiring Overseas Like the Navy Seals & Launching an Anti-Franchise With Jon Matzner

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Jon Matzner is the CEO of Garage Excell, a garage remodeling and organization specialists based out of Southern California.

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How to Hire & Train Virtual Assistants

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 09 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss their failure to hire virtual assistants in the past and how they plan to do better next time.

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How to Balance Building & Buying Companies?

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss whether they should restart an earlier project, balancing internal and external work, and audience building on Twitter.

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New Name! Baremetrics Price Increase, Twitter Hostile Takeover & Product Improvements

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss the podcast's new name, baremetrics price increase, Twitter hostile takeover, & product improvements.

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Buying Internet vs Non-Internet Businesses & Paid Acquisition Funnel

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 05:14:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's experience buying ads for his micro-pe course and thoughts around buying non-internet businesses.

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How to Increase Prices & Keep Customers Happy

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how to increase prices and keep customers happy

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How to Raise Money & Find Investors for Private Equity Deals

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how to raise money & find investors for private equity deals.

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Our Latest Acquisition Story & Danger of Building in Public

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:23:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss their latest acquisition, leverage, and danger of building in public.

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How to Do Acquisition Due Diligence & Smoothly Transition a Business

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 04:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how to do acquisition due diligence and smoothly transition a business.

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How We Lost a Deal & How We Can Do Better Next Time

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 04:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how and why to use debt to buy a business and different options for offering it.

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How & Why to Use Debt to Buy a Business

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how and why to use debt to buy a business and different options for offering it.

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Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 04:00:00 -0500

Future of Micro Acquisitions Course, Knees Over Toes, & Tech Savings

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Productized Technical Diligence, Building Standard Operating Procedures, & DeFi Issues

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Brent' family building, standard operating procedures, DeFi issues, and productized technical diligence.

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ESW Capital Operating Manual - Hardcore Shared Services

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:11:34 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Joe Liemandt (ESW Capital) Operating Manual.

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How to Give a SaaS a Modern Facelift

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss what it took to give a redesign to Blinksale and what they would have done differently.

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DeFi, Wealth Building, NFTs, & the Metaverse with Jason Hitchcock

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0500

@JasonHitchcock

If you are new to the space I wanted to provide a quick glossary of terms and phrases that you might not be familiar with. Check it out here:

Crypto Glossary:

$ETH - I don’t own any Bitcoin. Bullish on Eth becoming the iOS of crypto. The next few months will be wild as miners are zeroed out, fees get burned, and staked eth yields go up. You cannot own enough eth. Setting up a validator is the easiest path to non trivial passive income

$Luna - user friendly Defi gov token that gets more valuable as more $UST is minted

$ALCX - self paying loans. ALCX will earn 10% of protocol fees in v2, and grow along with stablecoin demand

$HNT - decentralized cellular network with parabolic growth

$AKT - A decentralized version of AWS compute. Users pay bills with AKT and fees go to stakers at 56% apy

$ATOM- the gov token for the blockchain-in-a-box. Earns fees with every cross-chain transaction on IBC, the standard for interoperability.

$crv and $CVX: stake these to earn crazy yield from stablecoin swaps on Curve.

$RUNE: cross chain liquidity of native assets. This will truly bring Bitcoin to defi. Insanely hard problem to solve is solved.

$OGN - Shopify for NFT drops. OGN is making big deals, pay attention

$MATIC - first mover of the L2s has already inhaled billions on liquidity, and launches major integrations every day.

$SUSHI - not just an exchange; but offering a full suite of smart contract templates for projects to launch their token economy. And it earns fees when staked

$AAVE - the perpetually undervalued lending platform that has an ocean of liquidity.

$ETH2x-FLI a token that gives exposure to a perfectly executed 2x leverage strategy on Eth. When eth is up, this goes up double. No liquidations or gas fees!

$osmo - osmosis is the uniswap of Cosmos and the first dex. It went to 100m in tvl in 2 weeks. Not bad! It’s the only place in defi to get all the Cosmos tokens.

$MOB - mobile coin is the payments token for signal. If it works out, they have millions of users who’d benefit

$ARCx - the first onchain credit score system for defi. Not all LPs or borrowers are the same. Protocols can give better liquidation levels or better rates depending on track record

$RPL - if you believe staking ETH will be big, then the east staking-as-service will be too

Cryptopunks- the first @larvalabs’s innovation predated the ERC-721 token standard and was the inspiration for it.

Why You Should Take a Week to Learn DeFi

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss what Colin has learned over the last week by doing a deep dive into crypto and DeFi.

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Hiring Abroad, Structuring Value-Add, & Buying Companies with Pipe

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss hiring employees abroad, structuring value-add, & buying companies with Pipe

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Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity Partners) Story - Billionaire Software PE

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 03:51:02 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Robert F. Smith & Vista Equity Partners with $75m AUM.

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How to Run Shared Services in PE & VC

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss problems with a startup studio, setting up internal services in PE, and different value-add structures.

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Outbound vs Inbound Deal Sourcing & Course/Community Launch

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss discuss Colin's new micro-pe course and community and deal sourcing with outbound vs inbound.

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How to Crowdfund a Micro PE Deal

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss discuss crowdfunding a micro PE deal from users and the public.

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How to Structure a Private Equity Fund

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:19:05 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss discuss how to structure a private equity fund after speaking with LPs.

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Mark Leonard (Constellation Software) Story - Billionaire Software Empire Builder

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's operating manual for Constellation Software, owner for 500+ software companies.

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The Deal Process & Evergreen Fund Structures

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss micro-pe deal process, evergreen fund structures, and investing in funds.

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Soft Landings for Venture Orphans

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 31 May 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss stepping off the VC treadmill, the Micro-PE course production and dealing with lawyers.

Bryan Johnson (Braintree & Kernel) podcast

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Micro-PE Course & Buying vs Building

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 17 May 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss Colin's Micro-PE course production and buying vs building Shopify apps.

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How to Source Small Companies to Buy

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 10 May 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss the different places to find businesses to buy and the pros and cons of each.

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How to Build a World-Class Network

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 03 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss building a magnet for cool people, protecting your most valuable resource, and Basecamp's drama of the week.

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Opportunities in Micro-PE & Picking Our Niche

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss opportunities in micro-pe and picking our niche.

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Track Records, Deal Examples, & Business Coaching

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss opportunity in niche SaaS companies, avoiding analysis paralysis, and tactics to be present in life.

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Setting up a Private Equity Firm

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss infrastructure needed to do more deals, startup studio vs holding company talent, and exploring a permanent equity structure.

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The One Question to Ask as a Product Owner

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss continuing to improve what we do best and building out our team of contractors.

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Setting Up Analytics & Wrestling with Legacy Code

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:00:00 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss how to treat customers on old plans, measuring what matters, the beauty of Stripe.

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We Bought Blinksale, a Profitable B2B SaaS!

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:20:12 -0500

Colin and Brent discuss why we bought Blinksale, concerns on the deal, and the plan for more acquisitions.

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Closing our First Micro-PE Acquisition

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 07:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss sourcing the first deal, timeline on diligence and closing, and managing the transition.

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Negotiating a Micro-PE Acquisition

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:52:53 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss indemnification and liability caps, starting with a business coach, Roam & daily journaling

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AngelList for Acquisitions and Automation Sprints

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 07:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss the messy market of small acquisitions, standardized docs for transactions, automation & design sprints.

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OnlyFans & Business Coaching

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:30:46 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss the opportunities around OnlyFans, business vs athletics coaching, mentors and therapy.

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Micro Private Equity and SBA Loans

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:17:55 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss the SBA loan process, micro private equity, and management after purchasing.

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Nootropics, Fractional Employees, & Clubhouse

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:00:00 -0600

Colin & Brent discuss nootropics, fractional employees, & Clubhouse

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The Most Efficient Business We Use

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:00:00 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss the story of BuiltWith, working with a VA, building, boting, or buying.

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2020 Year in Review

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:18:26 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss the popular trends we disagree with, favorite finds of the the year, and predictions for 2021.

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Our VC-backed Competitor is Struggling

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:58:30 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss the struggles of Knowable, an audio course competitor, and what that means for us and the broader audio market.

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Making Audio Courses Interactive

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:00:00 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss how good transcriptions have gotten and the fun possibilities that come with it.

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How We Build Product

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:05:49 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss how we build product and work together.

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How to Cold Email Anyone

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 07:19:40 -0600

Colin and Brent discuss how to cold email anyone and get a response.
- Subject lines that convert
- Building targeted lead lists
- Customizing emails at scale

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Improving Conversion Rates

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:40:47 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss improving conversion rates and pricing a digital product.

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The Power of Dogfooding

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:28:56 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss the power of dogfooding, hiring a VA in the Philippines, and getting your money back from Tony Robbins.

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What's Not Allowed on our Platform?

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:41:03 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss what's allowed on our platform and cohort based courses.

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Amazonification of the Audio Market

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:12:00 -0600

Brent and Colin discuss the Audible/Amazon return scandal and our new feedback feature.

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How to Get Customers Without a Big Budget

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:47:31 -0600

How to Get Customers Without a Big Budget

- Direct outreach: hyper-targeted and cheap
- SEO: build top of funnel, get started early
- Referrals: pay your customers, not facebook

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Our First Coaching Customer

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:51:43 -0500

Interview with our first coaching customer, Jackie McNamara.

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Pricing in the Creator Economy

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:47:06 -0500

How we are thinking about value-based pricing when we don't know our value yet.

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The Founding Story (Start Here!)

Colin Keeley & Brent Sanders — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:38:26 -0500

Colin and Brent talk about what they've been working on for the past year.

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