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150 Acquisitions Later: Saul Cohen on Why Deals Really Fall Apart (opens the original)
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Saul Cohen is a chartered accountant, founder of UK-based advisory firm The Expert Eye, and an acquisitions advisor who's worked on more than 150 deals — with a private equity fund of his own now in the works. In this episode, Saul breaks down SCORE, his framework for the risk factors that quietly set a company's multiple (Systems, Commercials, Organization, Regulatory, Exposure), and tells the story of a deal that looked clean on paper until a single site visit uncovered a culture problem that
Keep Your Sanity: The Real Cost of an Earnout (opens the original)
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Selling a business is usually treated as the finish line. For Jeremiah Curvers, founder and CEO of Polysleep, it was the beginning of a different chapter. After building a Canadian mattress brand from scratch — in one of the most competitive, capital-intensive consumer categories out there — Jeremiah sold part of the company and chose to stay on as an operator under new ownership. In this conversation, Jeremiah and Aaron dig into what that transition actually feels like: the two-year process of
Working On vs. In: How to Build a Business Someone Else Can Run (opens the original)
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Most founders assume their exit is something to plan for later — once revenue is strong, EBITDA is clean, or a banker is on retainer. Jo Stapleton, founder of the Exeo ecosystem and host of the Exeo Founders Table Podcast, has spent years working with founder-led companies and has seen the same pattern play out again and again: businesses that look profitable on paper fall apart the moment a buyer starts digging. In this conversation, Jo and Aaron dig into the real reason roughly 80% of small bu
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