How to 2x Your Business This Year: Lessons from Buying 29 Companies

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Most entrepreneurs are obsessed with starting a company. But why? Starting a company is a lot of work, low pay in the early years, and an 80% rate of failure. Instead, Jonathan Siegel says more people should buy businesses — so he’s bought 29. Learn how Jonathan has bought companies and made them successful, the quickest way to 2x your business revenue, and more.

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0:00.0	If you look at your own business and you're stuck in a rut, there's so many areas of
0:03.4	excellence that you can work on. And a small company, when the company is at this
0:07.4	a million dollar or less stage, you only need one of those tactics to produce for you.
0:11.4	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:17.0	What up party people.
0:22.0	It's your boy, mama's boy, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka
0:26.0	no Kagan. In today's episode I have an insane conversation with Jonathan Siegel.
0:30.7	He's an entrepreneur who's bought 29 companies. And here's the crazy part about it.
0:37.0	Jonathan isn't some big tech guru. Yes, he can program. But he hates Slack. He doesn't really use a cell phone, and he actually went back to school to learn more business stuff.
0:48.0	But his results are insane, and so I'm really excited for you to learn about how he's done that in these companies how the hell is he
0:53.0	bought 29 of them what's his philosophy on hiring and why he doesn't go after
0:57.5	traditional A players third what's his one tip which pricing, which he believes is the quickest way to double
1:05.0	any business?
1:06.0	Jonathan is also able to do this while he has eight kids, flies his own airplane, and now splits
1:11.0	time between Japan and Las Vegas. We talk about that and a bunch more.
1:15.4	Enjoy. Before we get started, if you like this interview, go check out Jonathan's book, The
1:20.0	San Francisco fallacy. It's all of his tales of companies he's bought, mistakes, and a lot of other fun activities of his.
1:27.0	Enjoy the show.
1:31.0	The eagle in the fucking house. You sound fantastic on Skype. Hey, you sound great yourself.
1:36.8	I sound naysily normally. So if I sound naysily, it's actually picking up everything perfectly.
1:40.8	That's just because we're Jewish, dude. I know, I know. We have
1:43.8	extra resonance, you know, it's in the blood. I mean there's trade-offs. It's like,
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