Play With the Gloves Off: An Honest Discussion about Taking On Investors

Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran

Capitalism.com

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This could be the most important decision a brand owner makes.

On one side, you might look at your business as your baby. You've nurtured it from its birth, pouring your blood, sweat, tears, and money into it. Win or lose, it's all yours. Even if that means you grow at a snail's pace instead of taking off like a rocket.

And maybe you're wondering whether the cash, connections, and advice you'd add with an investor could pour some gasoline on the little fire you've started. Are you ready? What if you mess it all up and disappoint your investors? What if they start getting power-hungry and you lose control?

How should you think about taking on investors? In this frank conversation, you'll hear from someone who's been on both sides of this experience. Once you wrap your head around this discussion, you may find your whole strategy changes.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the show. This is Capitalism.com and I'm Ryan Daniel Moran.
0:07.3	What's going on? How you been? I've been having a ton of fun with work and my career lately.
0:13.7	I've really started to dial in where I fit in the context of our clients and customers right now, I'm having the most
0:23.9	fun right now at the capitalism fund because basically what I get to do is show up as mentor
0:30.9	to the entrepreneur and I get to show up and be the superhero to the entrepreneur and I have
0:36.0	this tool belt of all these different resources that we can help use to make
0:41.3	the business grow.
0:42.6	What we tend to do is go into the business, see where we can provide value very quickly,
0:48.3	get the business to grow, and then invest money, bring in relationships.
0:53.5	And the results have been that businesses are starting to grow really quickly.
0:57.0	It's been fun.
0:58.2	I've got one partner where we invested some capital into the business so that it could buy
1:04.2	more inventory.
1:05.9	And since that business can buy more inventory now, it's getting better cost of goods and it's way ahead of
1:13.4	its lead times. And that alone has helped the business grow 40% in about six months because
1:21.8	it's not as reactive and we don't need to do discounts to get the algorithm to play nice with us anymore.
1:31.6	And it's really fun.
1:33.2	And I'm going to be documenting more of these businesses' growth over the coming weeks and months.
1:39.9	And I'll have more about that here in the next couple of shows.
1:43.3	But it's been really fun to be able to make such a quick impact in these businesses with my
1:48.2	advice and my relationships and with the capital that we brought to the table.
1:53.3	So I wanted to have a podcast with you.
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