My Company Was Just Acquired, Here's Whats Next with Nathan Latka
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Nathan Latka
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Ep 184 Heyo gets acquired, Nathan continues to tell-all about the selling of Heyo. In this part, he focuses on ‘due diligence’ and the business post-acquisition.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
- 00:00 – Nathan’s talks with Jim Risner, a co-CEO of Votigo.
- 01:30 – Nathan signed the LOI offered by Votigo.
- 01:53 – Jim talks about Votigo, a social marketing promotions platform.
- 03:22 – Nathan kept leverage and created a safety net by keeping Letters of Intent from other companies in case the signed deal with Votigo fell through during ‘due diligence.’
- 04:37 – Sue Zimmerman joins the show, one of Nathan’s first customers at Heyo.
- 06:41 – Nathan does The Top Podcast because he loves being out in front of people, not for the money.
- 07:38 – Joe Snider weighs in on what he thinks Nathan should do with his podcast now that Heyo is being sold.
- 08:56 – Autumn Beam of the Write Your Own Story podcast calls in.
- 10:05 – Nathan talks to Jim Risner about Heyo’s future post-acquisition – there are none to few changes planned.
- 11:09 – Nathan and Jim discuss red flags when it comes to business acquisition and due diligence.
- 12:40 – DJ Stephan, a highly accomplished entrepreneur and podcast listener calls in to advise Nathan.
- 15:03 – Nathan docu-signs the acquisition deal and sells Heyo.
- 18:29 – Get your mind in something, build it, hustle hard, ignore haters, and ride momentum to winning.
- 19:07 – What’s next for Nathan? Find out live on February 4th in his webinar.
3 Key Points:
- While waiting on due diligence, Nathan kept leverage and created a safety net by keeping Letters of Intent from other companies in case the signed deal with Votigo fell through.
- Entrepreneurs often have strong intuition or ‘gut feeling.’ Sometimes it’s wise to trust your instincts or to find out why you’re feeling a certain way.
- Nathan’s signed the deal to sell Heyo! What’s next for him? Find out on his webinar launching on Feb. 4th.
Resources Mentioned:
- Edgar – Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over – time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn’t have to work or pay for.
- Heyo – Contests, sweepstakes, and campaign landing pages.
- Votigo – Social Marketing platform that acquired Heyo.
- Write Your Own Story – Podcast by caller Autumn Beam
- SkySlope – Caller D.J. Stephan’s business
Credits
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, now the deal is closed and I don't know. |
| 0:03.3 | There was just certain times where you and I would get off the phone and I'd be like, |
| 0:06.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:08.2 | Like, you know, like I, what the fuck? |
| 0:12.8 | Give me an example. |
| 0:14.5 | I want to know. |
| 0:15.3 | Oh, God. |
| 0:18.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:20.3 | It must have had to do with... |
| 0:22.0 | Was it a feeling of like how I, |
| 0:23.6 | how I sounded on the phone or something I actually said? |
| 0:26.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, it was probably having to feel like |
| 0:29.1 | I don't want to be getting screwed. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:31.7 | It's just like that kind of feeling. |
| 0:32.7 | And it's just, and, you know, look, we're just both, you know, we have to, you're looking out for yourself. |
| 0:39.2 | And, you know, it's kind of, I don't really remember. |
| 0:43.4 | I'll email you if I can think of something. |
| 0:45.3 | I don't remember the specifics. |
| 0:46.5 | I mean, Mike might. |
| 0:47.2 | I bet if I asked me, like, well, he'll know those things like I, I was like, I do, we're done. |
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