HeyJaredSolopreneur from $0 - $1M
IWe're buying, building and scaling a portfolio of small lifestyle businesses, in public. We're working to add cashflow through multiple streams and share details on what works, what doesn't, and how we're building it all around the lifestyle we want
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A Brutal Update - 3 Years into a $1M Acquisition (opens the original)
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Three years ago I bought a 40-year-old business. This is the three-years-in update most entrepreneurs don’t want to give. I’ve shared pieces of it here already; the full version is in the video above. The short version is that it has been an extremely rough go.What I boughtOctober 2023. Appleton Electronics Group: forty years old, one person running it, just over $1M purchase price against about $1M in revenue the year we closed.I loved the shape of it. Tiny P&L, almost zero CapEx, a lot of brok
Buying Two Businesses & Building One in Nine Months — and Betting Everything We Had (opens the original)
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The decision that started all of thisFour years ago this month, I left my W2.I had the chance to step away, take a break, and figure out what was next — and as my wife and I sat down to map it out, we kept circling the same realization: we wanted to build income that didn’t depend entirely on me having a job.For fifteen years I’d worked in high-growth, venture-backed tech, building go-to-market teams. I had incredible runs — HireVue, then Lucid, then Workstream. I learned a ton, grew a ton, and
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