How a First-Timer Pulled Off a $52m Acquisition

Acquiring Minds

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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

References and how to contact Nick:

• LinkedIn
• [email protected]
• Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber
• Somewhere.com
  
  

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron