Nicholas Scalf and Darryl Lim bring you updates on their business that they bought from Microacquire an online business marketplace. It's a small lower five figure business which should be within most people's reach to purchase. We will discuss our failures, our wins and what we plan on doing to grow the business. As well, we'll interview guests who have also bought/built their online businesses as well as some Founders who have exited so we can learn together. Come Along for the ride as we ...
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Ep. 35: How to become world class with Mike Valley
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In this episode, we talk with our friend Mike Valley. Mike is a former NHL goalie and NHL coach with a ton of experience building businesses. We talk about what it takes to go from good to great, and the lessons he learned becoming one of the best in the world, and helping the best in the world become even better. If you want to reach out, you can …
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Ep. 34: A Crypto Implosion Took Down the King --- Here's What Just Happened
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This week LUNA and it's stablecoin UST blew up and took down the entire crypto market. Nick talks with the founder and writer of http://solsweet.co/, Toby Johnston, to break down all the madness. This story has a little bit of everything: Financial warfare, conspiracy theories, Citadel (the villains from the GameStop series), George Soros and the B…
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Ep. 33: DTC Hand-to-Hand Combat: Lessons From Street Magic to 8 Figure Brands
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In this episode, we talk with Danavir Sarria. Danavir is an e-commerce, SEO, SMS, and email marketing expert who works with 7-8 figure DTC brands. We dig into his strategies for building his own d2c brand from scratch, https://rooftopsquad.com --- and we couldn’t let him go without getting his advice for growing our own businesses. Davavir gave us …
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Ep. 32: What are We Building Now? *Secret* It's a Crypto Newsletter and a Supplement
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In this episode, we talk about the state of affairs in the crypto markets and get into the details of the new things we are building. Now that we've decided to move on from our project from last year, we needed to our next entrepreneurship challenge. While with Class Cast, We decided to work together, on these projects we're working separately. So …
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Ep.31: Rising from the Ashes for Season 2 & the Full Post Mortem Report on the Business We Bought - Class Cast Live
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In this episode, we're back from the ashes (and we're really sorry for ghosting you) and we deliver you the full report on the business we bought last year. We tell you all the details you wanted to know about the business that we couldn't deliver before because we were in the middle of the business including cost of the business, tactics that we t…
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Ep. 30: Update on our Business, What we've learnt from our Guests & Talk about the Crypto Market like what we're interested in
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In this episode, we finally give an update on our business (as per request of many people), Class Cast and discuss all the different marketing options that we've tried that have worked and haven't worked. We'll let you know in detail about our different tests. In addition to this, being that we're at about 30 episodes, we wanted to recap some of th…
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Ep 29: How This Developer built a Software for One Page Websites and Brought on 2.2 Million Users with AJ, the CEO of Carrd
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Ever built a website and thought, wow there's too many pages that I have create? Well, that's what AJ of Carrd.co thought. It turns out that he wasn't the only one. In fact there's 2.2 Million people who built 3.3 million websites on Carrd who thought the same. We interview the mysterious AJ to ask him about how Carrd got started, how he built up h…
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Ep 27: Reunion Interview with Andrew Gazdecki - Updates on Microacquire raising a round and more!
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Andrew Gazdecki, the CEO of Microacquire, was one of our first interviews. He was gracious enough to join us for a second episode where we talk to him about Microacquire raising a round, and all the other crazy updates going on with Microacquire. We also start rambling off some Hip Hop songs we've been listening - you won't hear this list anywhere …
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Ep 27: Taking a year long Bootstrap Sabbatical and Launching a New Company Every 2 months while Building in Public with Kevin Jochelson
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Meet Kevin Jochelson. He's located in Sydney, Australia and he's a multiple time founder and entrepreneur. He recently decided to take a year long Sabbatical in order to pursue creating more businesses than ever before. We interview Kevin about understanding what made him want to pursue this journey, document it in public, what they are and what ki…
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Ep. 26 - The Return of Ben Levy, Shaan Puri's Business Partner - how he made $150k in Profit minting/selling an NFT, his Blueprint to E-commerce and Business Ideas
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Back by popular demand, we brought back Ben Levy, Shann Puri’s Business partner, back to the show; we had so much fun the first time around, we had to bring him back. On this episode, we talk to Ben about the world of NFTs, how found and sold an NFT for $150,000 profit, what he’s working on right now like his E-commerce store with Shaan - how the p…
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Ep 25: Multi-Time Product Hunter launcher, Business Buyer & Angel Investor with Maximilian Fleitman
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Meet Maximilian - he's the CEO of Basetemplates which he recently acquired. Since he was young, Max has been trying to figure out how to be an entrepreneur. He was programming games and bringing in thousands of players which is quite impressive (while other kids were just trying to get through High School). He exited his first business young, but h…
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Ep 24: How He Bought, Sold and Brokered 175 Websites transactions (!!) and dramatically Increased all Revenue with SEO with Mushfiq S
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If you’ve been an avid listener, you probably know most of the people we’ve been interviewing are buying shoplift apps or SAAS businesses. But then comes along someone who opens our eyes. Meet Mushfiq, the website flippa. He has done 175 website transactions on the buy, sell, and broker side! He specializes in SEO, where goes out, finds the right w…
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Ep 23: Interview with CEO of Perfect Space & Room Steals with Nate Ritter
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In today’s episode, we speak to the other half of the tech team responsible for inventing the online hashtag hashtag. He’s been a tech executive at some of the biggest companies in the world like Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Landrover as well as launching his own companies in the travel/hotel spaces like Perfect Space & Room Steals, Nate Ritter.…
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Ep 22: How Onfolio helps Investors Buy & Build Stocks without doing the work with CEO, Dominic Wells
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In Today's episode, we interviewed a guest that has mastered the art of buying and building businesses. Dominic Wells is the CEO of Onfolio which is a company which acquires and manages diverse portfolios while offering investors a 12% Dividend annually. Dominic has spend the past decade working on his own business acquisitions and profitably growi…
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Ep. 21: Early Adopter and Serial Entrepreneur talks Buying his First Shopify App with Henry Johnson
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Our next guest has been on the road to buying a business for quite a while. He finally pulled the trigger and we got him on the show to talk about it more. Meet Henry Johnson, he's experience in a number of different businesses, but what he's known for is being an early adopter and getting ahead of the curve (like being an early adopter of Trends b…
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Ep. 20: The Inventor of the Hashtag and the #1 Product Hunter on Product Hunt with Chris Messina
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Ever wondered where the online hashtag on social media started? Well look no further. Today we have the guest Chris Messina on the show. Chris has spoken at TEDx, SXSW, Google I/O, Microsoft’s Future Decoded and many other leading conferences as well as featured in many other publications like The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, Washington…
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Ep 19: Want to get an Angel Investor's Attention? Here's How with Professor Dr Kevin Taylor
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If you're like us, you've probably wondered about the world of Angel Investors. What do they invest in, why do they invest in it and how do I get their attention? Well you've come to the right episode. In today's show we talk to Professor Dr Kevin Taylor who has invested in 20 different businesses and seen hundreds of different pitch decks. We ask …
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Ep. 18: How this Entrepreneur Created a Community with Operators and Investors with Sam Bass
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Scratching his own itch, Sam had an e-commerce store but he was looking for operator to help run his store. Unfortunately, the only solution that he had or was told about was looking within his own network. After realizing this was a pain point in his journey, he decided to resolve this problem because if this was a problem of his, it must be other…
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Ep. 17: Creating a SAAS from $0 to $55k/month while Building in Public with an Exit and Writing Two Books with Arvid Kahl
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With the movement of being more and more transparent with the type of work or product developers are producing, it has gain lots of traction in helping build businesses. The old way of thinking is building in the dark, finish your product then start selling. The new way is to describe everything you're changing about your software, how many paying …
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Ep 16: Using Artificial Intelligence to Create Personalized Emails and Custom Content with the Click of a Button with Vaibhav Namburi
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Are you tired of writing your own copywriting and emails that take forever to research and think of? Look no further, our next guest had the same problem as you and I, so he decided to go out and build a software/SAAS that would help him create and write content that would help personalize more emails, create custom content like tweets, youtube tit…
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Ep 15: The Origin Story of Ben Levy, Serial Entrepreneur and Shaan Puri's Business Partner
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In today's episode, We speak to one of our closest internet friends that we've never met, Ben Levy. Ben was one of the originators of the All Access Pass where he and Shaan Puri (from My First Million Podcast) created a daily newsletter and email blast out about how they were going to build three projects, as well as a Slack Community where all thr…
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Ep 14: How this 23 Year Old Built a $200k/annually business with 6 Million lifetime users and moderates a Subreddit with Daniel Ch
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We got another one. A 20 something wonder kid who’s showing us that age is no reason to stop you from doing anything including starting a business. Meet Daniel. He’s 22 years old from the UK. He started an authentication company named Legitcheck for designer wear and he’s generating $200k/annually in business with over 6 million lifetime users. Bor…
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Ep. 13: How this 24 Year Old Created & Sold a 7 Figure Business in College and How He's Bought & Builds a Few Companies now with Connor Gross
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In college, we are usually busy with our faces buried in books, getting to know our classmates and having drinks - then occasionally, we dream about building wealth and some side hustle. Our next guest, Connor Gross made that dream a reality. He created the business Cardly with his business partner which is a nice looking wallet that sticks to the …
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Ep 12: How a Forbes Contributor and Custom Software Agency Founder Builds Sidekick AI to Compete with Calendly with Chris Ake
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Meet Chris Ake, contributor to Forbes Magazine and Co-author of the book, Journey to Success: Millennial Edition. He's been hustling since he was young and he's a non technical founder who figured out how to get in the technical game without actually being a developer. His entrepreneurial journey was inspired by an article in Tech Crunch and to thi…
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Ep 11: Interview with Wil Schroter, the CEO of Startups.com including his Wins, his Failures while Helping Millions of Founders and Startups on the Way
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In today's episode, we had the opportunity to speak to Wil Schroter, the CEO of Startups.com and co-host of Startup Therapy. Wil has also purchased 6 former y-combinator businesses that didn't make it the next round, and rolled it into startups.com. In this interview we also discuss his losses, his wins and why he started startup.com. Wil's has hel…
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Ep 10: Update Build in Public from Class Cast Live and What We're up to Next
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It's been a little while since we've updated you on our purchased business and what better episode, than episode 10 to drop our update! We've been so wrapped up in getting some amazing guests on our podcast that we've forgotten to build/podcast in public about our business. We tell you what's going on in the last few months, what problems we've run…
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Ep 9: How this Former Lawyer Turned Developer Bootstrapped Went from $0 to $150k MRR and Sold his Business with Nick Fogle
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Imagine being in debt $250k in student loans from Law School and living paycheck to paycheck - sounds painful doesn't it? Well this is exactly what Nick Fogle did and he decided he hated being lawyer, so he quit and taught himself how to code instead. His story is not for the faint at heart but if you're looking for inspiration - look no further! W…
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Ep 8: Interview with 22 Year Old $100K Contest Winner from Microacquire & My First Million Podcast, Daniel Scott Mitchell
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What were you doing when you were 22? Our next guest, Daniel Scott Mitchell was busy winning $100k contests from My First Million and Microaquire to purchase an online business a couple months ago. We take a deep dive into Daniel's process and strategy to how he actually won this contest and more into his mentality that makes him one of the most dr…
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Ep 7: Family Man builds 7 figure DTC business and adds Software owner to his Portfolio with Adam Parnes
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Meet Adam, he built a Luxury Bags business with his wife which is doing quite well and it was built ORGANICALLY. Yes, he never paid for any ads and to this day, he's making 7 figures from his business. Knowing that he didn't have to use paid ads to build his business, he wanted to encourage others about this strategy which is what brought him to pu…
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Ep 6: Quitting a Full Time Day Job to Owning an Online Store and Software app with Tom Mucklow
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Ever wanted to leave your day job and go on to own your own Online store and software? Tom went from the Film Industry, Sales to finally owning his own store. He decided it was time take his store to the next level but also purchasing a software that would help with his conversion as well as everyone else's. Tom talks about his entrepreneurial jour…
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Ep 5: Running a Capital Firm and owning 10 businesses with David Horne & Marty Balkema of Calm Capital
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Ever wonder what it’s like to own 10 companies? We speak with David Horne and Marty Balkema of Calm Capital. They talk about how their partnership started, what they look for when acquiring businesses, how they intend to grow their businesses and now they manage to run all these businesses. Come join us to get insight from Calm Capital (calmcapital…
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Ep4: Top Salesman to Entrepreneur running an Innovative Screen Sharing app w Spencer Scott of Median
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Former enterprise Salesman, Entrepreneur and owner of Loop. Scott found Microacquire by accident and was window shopping; he was not in the market for the business. But when he came across this business, he couldn’t resist; this was technology he believed all businesses need in the next 5 years. Scott ended up buying a business that screen shares i…
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Ep3: Interview with the CEO of Microacquire, Andrew Gazdecki - How to Be Successful as an Entrepreneur and Details About Buying Businesses
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Have you ever thought about why Microacquire was originally built? Or Perhaps you're interested in the best steps for buying and building a business? In today's episode, We hang out and talk to Andrew Gazdecki, the CEO of Microacquire whose been named to Inc.'s 30 under 30 Entrepreneur and is a 3x founder where two of his past businesses were acqui…
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Ep 2: We're Business Owners, Now what? Class Cast Live Update
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In this episode, it's a solo episode with Darryl Lim. He discusses the actual details of the business that was purchased, what happened in the first week of business and how effective Facebook Ads were based on running it off an old video creative with Saff from Tiger King.If you want to sign up for a free trial at ClassCastLive.com - you can go he…
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Ep1: What we found at the market - Class Cast Live Origin purchase story
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In episode 1 we dig into the company that we bought, why this company seemed like a good opportunity to us, and how we plan to grow it. ————————* If you haven't done so already, please *smash* that subscribe button as we drop more episodes and special guests weekly! This also helps our small podcast grow so we can keep bringing awesome guests!* Hav…
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