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Sieva Kozinsky

Learn how to buy businesses in 5-minutes or less, once a week. Lessons & specific tactics on how invest your money and generate cash flow for your life.

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Welcome to The Business Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Angel investing is a good way to lose money How PE firms turn $5m into $25m instantly Let's buy an accounting business? Angel investing is overrated. A couple months ago, I wrote about my most successful angel investment ever. Here's what happened: 5 years ago, I invested $25k into a startup. This year, I received $1.1 million from the investment (a 113% annualized return). But the truth is I got...

Welcome to The Business Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Don't pay for someone else's vacation Private equity is betting on your local handyman Digging up dirt 🔑Magazines are a dying business. But what if I told you one man is making a killing buying Magazine businesses? Craig buys transportation & logistics related magazines (like Flying magazine) He can buy them CHEAP because few others want them. But the audiences are targeted and loyal, and he knows...

Welcome to The Business Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: Why some employees give a sh*t (and others don't) Making millions by hauling rocks A 100-year old business for sale 🔑Magazines are a dying business. But what if I told you one man is making a killing buying Magazine businesses? Craig buys transportation & logistics related magazines (like Flying magazine) He can buy them CHEAP because few others want them. But the audiences are targeted and loyal,...

Welcome to The Business Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: How Warren Buffett structures his company Selling a business to a public company Home healthcare business trading at 4.4x cash flow UPDATE: The Business Academy is opening a spot for our first outside advertiser. But not just any advertiser. We have a unique audience of 70K+ smart investors plotting their next business to buy (see results below from our recent reader survey, over 60% of readers...

Welcome to The Business Academy with Sieva Kozinsky. Here's what we have in store for you today: I studied one of the worst business models How to buy a $2.5M+ Canadian distribution company Making $700k+ working 1 day a week (too good to be true?) UPDATE: The Business Academy is opening a spot for our first outside advertiser. But not just any advertiser. We have a unique audience of 70K+ smart investors plotting their next business to buy (see results below from our recent reader survey,...

Welcome to The Business Academy. Here's what we have in store for you today: How will your business die? How to find a business to buy American manufacturing - is it back? UPDATE: The Business Academy is opening a spot for our first outside advertiser. But not just any advertiser. We have a unique audience of 70K+ smart investors plotting their next business to buy (see results below from our recent reader survey, over 60% of readers come to learn about how to buy a business or to find a...

Welcome to The Business Academy. Here's what we have in store for you today: How do businesses survive for 500+ years? Buy a business no one else wants Make millions with meat 🔑 From Homeless To Owner Of 20+ Businesses Watch on YouTube Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts How would you define "long-term" in business? 10 years? 20 years? Maybe 50 years? You're thinking too short-term. Japan has 140 businesses that have been operating for more than 500 years. I recently read a fascinating...

Welcome to The Business Academy. Here's what we have in store for you today: One of the best and worst deals ever Is $25 million enough? Interesting Off-Market deal When I was 25, I was the CEO of my first startup. I had raised $2 Million for the business. But I had never been in business before. I didn’t know anything about hiring. I didn’t know anything up marketing.So I scoured the internet for mentors. I emailed hundreds of people and only a few chatted with me for a few minutes at a...

Welcome to The Business Academy. Here's what we have in store for you today: Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome Outsmart the startup game (by buying a business) $10m in revenue from bathroom stalls If you don’t have a personal assistant, you are the personal assistant. Did you know you can hire the air-traffic-controller of your life and business for as little as $1,200 per month? Manage your inbox, do tasks inside your business, schedule your meetings and travel, manage...

Welcome to The Business Academy. Here's what we have in store for you today: These guys paid 110x revenue for a business How to sell your company (and buy it back) This 56-year old flooring company is looking for their dream buyer 🔑 Jamesons started a boring business that does $1.5m in revenue, hear his story (Podcast) He left his banking & private equity career to start a boring, home deck construction business in San Diego. And he's already grown it to $1.5 million in annual revenue in a...