I start looking for online businesses to buy. So at this time we had my wife and I moved from our Denver metro area home to four hours west to deep in the Colorado mountains, the rural Colorado mountains. And so brick and mortar, whether right or not, felt off the table for me.
Acquiring Minds
The Contrarian Bet on a Digital Agency
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So I was, as I was looking, I was looking for remote businesses and got on, you know, all of the familiar remote online business finding sites. Empire, Flippas, Flippers, Flippa. I'm conflating those two and quiet, light and I love it.
Empire Flippa.
Yeah, Empire Flippa. Maybe, maybe I've just spoiled a merger that's, that's coming down the pike here that no one was aware of and, and and started looking at you know, everything that came through on Quiet Light and Empire Flippers.
Probably impossible to look at everything that comes through on Flippa but I I looked at a lot of it within certain parameters and was agnostic to agency versus other and and just sort of it just so happened that I ended up requiring two E Commerce ones.
Great. Well those two acquisitions are not the subject of today's story so jump us to the end of the your journey with those two as you put it in the pre call small ball acquisitions.
Yeah so we at the time I I was I knew absolutely nothing about debt or or SBA or anything like that. We had sold our home in in the Denver metro area to move to the mountains and so we had a little bit of cash and and that's what I used to buy those two and and so was you know, limited by my own cash in in buying smaller E commerce companies random and and love them. I will I should you know be…
I ran one really and and loved it. I I still own the other and and frankly have never given it the attention it deserves and hope to when I finally get some time here. It's still doing well.
It still is is making money each year I spend about an hour a month on it but it's it needs some love at some point but I I I have not given that to it. The other I I poured my my heart into for a couple years. I I was you know I passionate about the product.
We ended up it was I bought it as drop shipping but we ended up creating our own products and holding inventory and selling those and and ultimately I sold it in in the first half of 2025 and and so you know now had the thing that was taking all my time off my plate and still had the other E Commerce one. I've also I've been growing a separate business from zero during this time as well but those…
So in in mid-2025 started looking for the next acquisition George the E Commerce.
One that you that was drop shipping. Then you built your own product built up inventory and exited the first half of this year 2025.
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