Drew Goodmanson

Entrepreneurs Must-Read Book List
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These are the books after reading hundreds of books on business I would most recommend to an entrepreneur.   Reading them will cover nearly all the bases they need to build a great company.   Leading Change is a classic and...
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5 Strategies to Climb out Post-Covid
Preparation begins now to separate the winners from losers Post-Covid
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Even if you survive this downturn, companies who do not become aggressive, adaptive and opportunistic may never recover. This is the lesson I learned in the 2008 downturn. After the dust settles, there will be a couple winners, but a...
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Entrepreneurs Top Concerns about Selling a Business
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Most entrepreneurs care about the company they’ve built and this often impacts their decisions to sell. These concerns include their people, their legacy and what life will be like after they sell, whether they stay on or leave the business...
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Craig Misrach – Spinning Medical IP out of a University, Raising Money, Building a Business and Selling It
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Craig started a company by licensing medical IP (Intellectual Property) out of a University, raised money to fund it and ultimately sold it. The impact of raising money without thinking about the exit standpoint including the need to manage up...
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150+ Entrepreneurs share their Best Advice on Selling a Company
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We asked over 150 entrepreneurs to give us their best advice to those considering selling their businesses. We also asked over 100+ Investment Bankers and Private Equity firms, and they shared their best advice about what business owners should know...
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Amish Shah – The Playbook he’s used 4 times to Scale past $1M in revenue and his exit
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Hear Amish playbook to scale companies, from apps to online publishing to software, to 7-figures in revenue and his 8-figure exit to a public company that went bad. Learn how Amish has scaled 4 companies including marketing, apps, online publishing...
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Scott Neuberger – Spin Out and Merger with Competitor Leads to $100M Strategic Exit
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After spinning a technology product out of Qualcomm to create a company, he merged it with a competitor which ultimately valued the company more than 30x higher than at the time of the spin out less than 3 years earlier....
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Dean Rosenberg – Finding and Selling a High Value Niche SaaS Company
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Building a niche SaaS company from a client's custom software request and selling it even when they weren't looking for an exit. . How Dean built a great company and sold it versus focusing on the exit where there is...
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Andreas Roell – Private Equity Backed Market Consolidation Goes Sideways
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Learnings from building the largest digital marketing agency in San Diego, acquiring companies, doing a Private Equity backed rollup gone sideways and from five subsequent exits since. Critical Terms and Deal Points that matter and why you need advisors to...
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Alex Bates – $37M Exit after Transition from Service to SaaS
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How the transition from custom software to SaaS led to a $37M Exit, significantly higher than a deal they rejected for far less when they were not SaaS. How Alex's company transitioned revenue models to dramatically increase their valuation. The first...
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