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🟠 What's a small business HoldCo? - 3 success stories

🟠 What's a small business HoldCo? - 3 success stories

HoldCos have been around for ages, they take many different forms

Ben Tiggelaar
June 19, 2023

The SMB Scoop back, I’ll admit I’ve been slacking recently. I’m hiring someone to help me get my personal house in short order so I will be more consistent with sending out this newsletter weekly.

This week is about HoldCos. Not sure what a HoldCo is? Big Deal Small Business wrote a post called HoldCo Discussion - great job at describing what a HoldCo is and where it exists in the entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) spectrum.

Permanent Equity HoldCo doesn’t intend to sell, no management fees, no investor control, no use of debt

This guy is building an acquisition empire in Missouri.
He buys companies all day, but never sells them.
Meet the forest gump of private equity:
— Colin Keeley (@ColinKeeley)
3:20 PM • May 3, 2023

$30M revenue foundry HoldCo - started with one $2.7M revenue acquisition in 2017

Reg Zeller runs a $30M Holdco.
The number 1 piece of advice he gives to new SMB owners is…
“Find a peer group.”
Here’s why…
In early 2017, @RegZeller bought his first foundry.
$2.7M revenue
$500k SDE
6 months after the acquisition he’d end up in the fetal position of his… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Rand (@RandBusiness)
1:26 PM • May 1, 2023

Marmon Group - from a $3M rev bicycle manufacturer to an empire worth billions

These guys built an acquisition empire in Chicago.
It started with the purchase of a struggling bicycle manufacturer for $95k.
And grew to $8 billion in sales and sold to Warren Buffett.
Here is their playbook...
— Colin Keeley (@ColinKeeley)
2:36 PM • May 8, 2023

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