From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ramon Van Meer (@RamonVanMeer) joins Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to discuss why he prefers to buy businesses rather than build them, his best tools for new business research, how to make sure you’re not buying a lemon, learning to code in a week, and much more. _____ * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. _____ Show Notes: * (00:56) - How to write a viral tweet thread * (06:40) - Why buying businesses can be better than building them * (14:58) - Ramon’s soap opera gossip website * (28:05) - How to make sure you’re not buying a lemon * (38:15) - How Ramon learned to code in a week * (42:50) - Shaan and Ramon play “would you rather?” * (49:30) - Shaan agrees to a boxing match with Sam _____ Links: * Centurica.com * Helium10 * Alpha Paw

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0:00.0	All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now.
0:04.4	Hosepot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.
0:08.9	Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty
0:13.1	Potty, to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were
0:18.6	winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.
0:24.2	Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your
0:28.4	company on your own.
0:29.6	If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast that you
0:32.9	listen to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.
0:36.2	All right, back to the show.
0:37.5	There was a cup on the table, I remember we were drinking water, a little paper cup,
0:41.8	we were at this burrito place, and you were like, if I could buy this cup for five cents
0:45.8	and sell it to you for seven cents, that's my passion.
0:48.5	Yeah.
0:49.5	I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to.
0:54.5	I put my all in it like no days, all.
0:57.5	Let's travel, never looking back.
1:00.2	Ramon, he is back, the guest from Episode 2, which was one of the best episodes ever of
1:08.2	this podcast.
1:09.8	And then it was taken down for a bit, I don't know what happened, there was something
1:12.7	we got to take it down, make a little edit.
1:14.7	People started hitting me up.
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