TMBA475: The Messy Marketplace
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/brentbeshore2/ One of the things that Dan and Ian love about creating this podcast is that they not only get to talk to some pretty interesting people, but they also get to follow their stories as they build and scale their businesses.
About two years ago, we spoke with Brent Beshore, the Founder and CEO of Adventur.es.
Since we last talked, Brent's team has more or less doubled. They've made a decision to raise capital, bought a headquarters in Columbia, Missouri and Brent has written a book about buying businesses called "The Messy Marketplace".
On today's episode, we are revisiting Brent's story and hearing how Adventur.es has grown since we last spoke. We'll also hear how things have changed since they have raised over 50 million dollars in investment capital, and why he decided to share the story of his business in his new book.
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| 0:00.0 | Our first rule of thumb is do no harm. |
| 0:02.0 | And so in order to do no harm, we've got to understand what we're buying and what we're getting ourselves involved in and make sure that we're using good judgment. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:13.4 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:21.3 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:26.1 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:31.3 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:45.7 | All right, welcome back to the TMBA pod. Bossman. Are you audible? I'm audible. You're here? You're ready to do this thing? Yeah. I'm feeling good about 2019, man. One of the best things about having a |
| 0:52.9 | show like this is that you can reach out to the people |
| 0:55.8 | that you think are legit, that you think are onto something special and try to decode |
| 1:01.1 | what that special something is. So just under two years ago, Ian, you identified this entrepreneur |
| 1:07.8 | named Brent Beshore, founder and CEO ofadventure.es, which they describe as a |
| 1:15.0 | family of companies that acquires family-owned companies. So, Ian, since you last spoke with Brent, |
| 1:23.4 | his team is more or less doubled. They've made a decision to raise private equity. |
| 1:27.9 | They've bought a headquarters. |
| 1:29.7 | They even wrote a book. |
| 1:31.7 | It really feels like whatever Brent's on about, it's working. |
| 1:36.3 | So what did you discover when you gave him a call? |
| 1:39.7 | I don't want to spoil the episode and give it all away, but I think Brent is right about a lot of things. |
| 1:46.1 | In 2018, Dan, I saw several organizations start to gain traction, basically VC firms, looking to help bootstrappers, essentially saying, we're here to help bootstrappers. |
| 2:00.6 | We know what bootstrappers need, |
| 2:02.3 | want the kind of advice that they like. They primarily need advice. |
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