The Think Like an Owner podcast seeks out conversations with small company owners and investors to learn how to acquire and run small companies, with a focus on search funds, micro private equity, and permanent capital.
My guest today is an anonymous Twitter account named Defensive Capital. He works in supply chain in the defense industry and our conversation focuses on opportunities for entrepreneurs and searchers in the industry.
My guest Ali Aydar is the CEO of Sporcle, an online trivia business, but earlier worked in various venture backed companies. We talk about operating a business through tough times, the advantages of having permanent capital, and his choice in leaving the finite game.
Chris Fredericks is the President of TVF and Empowered Ventures and will be joined by Spencer Springer full time once Spencer’s MBA program with Northwestern is wrapped up.
This is my second episode hearing from investors on how they are adapting their companies, this time with Justin Turner from Traction Capital Partners.
I recorded this episode with Mikel Berger from Little Engine Ventures and another with Justin Turner from Traction Capital Partners to hear from investors on what’s going on in their companies today.
Little Engine Ventures has a strong regional focus of companies within a 2 hour drive of Lafayette, IN and are building a firm, brand, and community that resonates with small, midwest business owners.
My fifth guest of the show is Nick Haschka, an MIT graduate living in San Francisco focused on buying small private companies through his firm Cub Investments, along with two other partners.
Traction is a small private equity firm that blurs the lines between a private equity fund and a permanent capital vehicle, which is what made them so interesting to me.
For the first conversation of the podcast, I’m meeting with Trish Higgins who, along with her husband James Higgins and brother-in-law Palmer Higgins, run Chenmark Capital in Portland, Maine.
