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...
6 days ago • 5 min read
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,...
14 days ago • 5 min read
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...
21 days ago • 4 min read
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,...
28 days ago • 5 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
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...
2 months ago • 4 min read