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Welcome to the “Masters in Small Business Mergers and Acquisitions podcast.” I am your host, Peter Lehrman, and I’m the Founder and CEO of Axial (www.axial.net), a trusted online platform for business owners & their M&A advisors to use to safely and intelligently explore and…
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Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter’s Journey from Self-Funded Search to a $220M Committed Fund (opens the original)
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Today's guests are Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter, Co-Founders of Heritage Holding, an investment firm that has completed nearly 50 acquisitions across 12 active platform companies. After graduating from HBS, where they met as classmates and intramural soccer teammates, Alex and Ross partnered up to pursue a self-funded search. They share what gave them the confidence to move forward on their first acquisition, a business many PE investors passed on due to customer concentration and key-person
Trustworthy Searchers, SBA Policy, and Underwriting ETA Investments w/ Grant Hensel (opens the original)
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Today’s guest is Grant Hensel, founder of Entrepreneurial Capital, a fund that partners with self-funded searchers acquiring small businesses through ETA. After building and exiting businesses of his own, making personal ETA investments, and completing an acquisition with his wife, Grant launched Entrepreneurial Capital to back the next generation of owner-operators. In this episode, Grant explains why he prefers the self-funded search model over traditional search funds, how he evaluates both b
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