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Mar 2025
1h 20m

Deciding to Start, Not Buy, a Small Busi...

Will Smith
About this episode

Initially drawn to buying a business, Kevin Moyer instead decided to start a project-based blue collar business instead.

Topics in Kevin’s interview:

  • Is the franchise fee worth it?
  • Buying 3 de novo Smash My Trash territories
  • His appreciation for reversible decisions
  • A small business is an extension of the owner
  • Recurring revenue is overrated
  • Simple is nice, but complexity is a moat
  • Starting a business with his friend
  • Advantages of having a business partner
  • Resiliency of physical world businesses
  • Simplicity of a binary outcome business

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron

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