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Unsung explores entrepreneurship through acquisition, buying and growing small businesses instead of starting from scratch.For people questioning their careers and operators looking to grow, we break down how to acquire, finance and run small businesses with practical,…
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Jamil Anakkar (Preventr): From Accenture consultant to a £20Mn group – using the business to fund the acquisition (opens the original)
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What does it take to leave a comfortable consulting career, buy your first small business and turn it into the foundation for a much larger group? In this episode of Unsung , host Will Maunder-Taylor speaks with Jamil Anakkar , Founder and CEO of Tandy Ventures and Operating CEO of its first acquisition Preventr . Jamil shares his journey from NHS paramedic and Accenture strategy consultant to acquiring a 30-year-old fire safety business in 2024. He explains how he structured the acquisition of
Viktoria Izdebska: How AI agents are changing the search for small businesses to buy (opens the original)
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AI rollups are creating a new approach to buying and transforming small businesses, but finding enough suitable companies to acquire remains one of the biggest challenges. Viktoria Izdebska founded a service company in the financial sector when she was 17 and later founded one of Austria’s fastest growing data companies. She is now one of the leading growth and M&A advisors for AI rollups across the US and Europe. Speaking with Will Maunder-Taylor on Unsung , Viktoria explains how AI agents can
Pascal Wittet & Sandy Farmer (Orca Equity Partners): Why Orca backs first-time CEOs to buy their own business (opens the original)
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Many talented professionals never realise there are investors willing to back them to buy and run an established small business, even if they have never been a CEO or worked in that sector before. In this episode of Unsung , host Will Maunder-Taylor speaks with Pascal Wittet and Sandy Farmer , Co-Founders of Orca Equity Partners , the UK’s first and most active fund of search funds. They explain how Orca backs first-time CEOs across Europe, what they look for in aspiring business owners and why
Daniel Beaumont: How I bought 7 small businesses and why it worked for sellers (opens the original)
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Buying a small business is not only about finding a ‘good deal’’. It is also about structuring it in a way that one can finance (with or without your own funds), protects the business and gives the seller confidence in what happens next. In the first episode of Season 2, Unsung host Will Maunder-Taylor speaks with Daniel Beaumont , a former chartered accountant who moved into his family’s textile business, experienced the emotional side of selling a company and then went on to acquire seven smal
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