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Jun 19
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How a First-Timer Pulled Off a $52m Acqu...

Will Smith
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With no PE background, Nick Huber had to learn quickly as he raised money to acquire a fast-growing offshoring agency.

Topics in Nick’s interview:

  • Origin of the Sweaty Startup guy
  • Nick’s role in Support Shepherd’s growth
  • Backstory of the Support Shepherd deal
  • How Nick structured incentives to make it worthwhile
  • What turned off investors
  • Inbound leads collapsing in year 1
  • Is building a Twitter following worth it?
  • Big changes to the business since acquisition
  • The value (or not) of distribution
  • Annual cost and org chart of Nick’s media team
  • Why write a book

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron

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