Getting Acquired - How an Entrepreneur Built and Sold his SaaS Startup with Andrew Gazdecki
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Gazdecki is a 4x founder with 3x exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in New York Times, Forbes, WSJ, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch and VentureBeat.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You don't need experience, you have to work hard, and you have to have the ability to learn anything.
2. When you build a company, it becomes a part of you.
3. It is essential to listen to the customers.
Startup acquisition marketplace. Free. Private. No middlemen - MicroAcquire
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought |
| 0:09.7 | to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like The Salesman Podcast. Today |
| 0:16.0 | we'll be focusing on getting acquired. How an entrepreneur built and sold his SaaS startup. |
| 0:24.2 | In Fire Nation to drop these value bombs, I have brought Andrew Gasdecki on the mic. |
| 0:28.6 | He is a four times founder with three exits. He's a former CRO and founder of Micro Acquire. |
| 0:36.4 | Gasdecki has been featured in the New York Times Forbes Wall Street Journal Inc. Magazine, |
| 0:40.7 | Entrepreneur TechCrunch, Inventure, Beat, and Today Fire Nation. We will be going through |
| 0:44.7 | that process of what it takes to build and then sell a startup and specifically a SaaS |
| 0:51.6 | startup, software as a service. So we'll be talking about how Andrew started his career, |
| 0:57.2 | how he started business apps, another company, Altcoin, and then of course Micro Acquire. |
| 1:02.7 | You're going to just pick up a lot of gems and value bombs along the way, Fire Nation, |
| 1:06.9 | about how you could potentially come up with the idea and then execute building the business |
| 1:12.0 | of your dreams and that dream could be to exit. When we get back from thinking our sponsors, |
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| 1:40.0 | The HubSpot Podcast Network is the audio destination for business professionals who seek the best |
| 1:44.2 | education and inspiration on how to grow a business, whether you're looking for marketing |
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| 1:58.3 | network. |
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