Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: How to buy companies like the pros He built a portfolio of 190 apartment buildings 🔑 How to buy companies like a private equity firm Want to buy businesses like a multi-billion dollar PE firm? I'm going to break it down for you. One of the most common private equity strategies is acquiring a platform company, and then acquiring other complementary businesses to grow the group of businesses...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: We bought a hotel in Montauk Don't make this mistake when buying a business He's rolling up auto shops...and doing $150 million+ per year 🔑 I did something a little crazy. Not many know I’ve been working on this for the past 2 years. I bought a hotel in Montauk, NY, for $23 million. I'll jump into the numbers and business plan in a minute. But first I want to tell you about what makes this...
16 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Your guide to being boring A business buying masterclass How to build a $400 million holding company 🔑 How to be Boring This caught my eye last week. No way this is true, I thought. But I checked, and sure enough, Build-A-Bear Workshop has outperformed basically every big tech stock over the last 5 years. This got me thinking. In a world obsessed with the next big thing - AI, crypto, or...
23 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Anatomy of a Roll-Up Strategy How to Pay your Employees Get a Quality of Earnings Report This made our lives so much easier If you run a holding company like I do, then you know how difficult it can be to stay organized. One of the biggest challenges: Managing dozens of different bank accounts across our portfolio of companies. Our Director of Finance, Nick, used to spend hours logging into...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: How he bought a $2.8 million business Want to reach the Business Buying Academy audience? Learn to do roll-ups from a pro This made our lives so much easier... If you run a holding company like I do, then you know how difficult it can be to stay organized. One of the biggest challenges: Managing dozens of different bank accounts across our portfolio of companies. Our Director of Finance,...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: How to buy and scale a small business to $200 million+ Do this before buying a business What he learned from selling a business to Barnes & Noble Imagine having to log into 50+ different bank portals every day. That used to be the life of Nick, our Director of Finance. Then we found Vesto. It pulls in every account-across every bank-into one dashboard. Real-time balances, cash flow,...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: How to make 29% a year for over a decade Never miss another state filing deadline A Masterclass on Rollups Imagine having to log into 50+ different bank portals every day. That used to be the life of Nick, our Director of Finance. Then we found Vesto. It pulls in every account-across every bank-into one dashboard. Real-time balances, cash flow, transactions. No more jumping between logins....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Rolling up billboards (he made billions) A 27-year old manufacturing business for sale What type of business should you buy? We have over 50 bank accounts across our portfolio companies. Nick, our Director of Finance, used to spend hours every week just logging in and checking balances. Then we found Vesto. It pulls in every account—across every bank—into one dashboard. Real-time balances,...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to The Business Buying Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: This boring business nets $330 million a quarter What if your Registered Agent was actually helpful? I talked to some business buying experts - here's what I learned We have over 50 bank accounts across our portfolio companies. Nick, our Director of Finance, used to spend hours every week just logging in and checking balances. Then we found Vesto. It pulls in every account—across every...
2 months ago • 3 min read