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Hosted by Peter Lehrman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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Welcome to the “Masters in Small Business Mergers and Acquisitions podcast.” I am your host, Peter Lehrman, and I’m the Founder and CEO of Axial (www.axial.net), a trusted online platform for business owners & their M&A advisors to use to safely and intelligently explore and execute capital raises, acquisitions, and exits with strategic buyers or professional financial sponsors.
Peter Lehrman hosts Masters in Small Business M&A, a business show with 25 episodes published.
Today’s guest is Grant Hensel, founder of Entrepreneurial Capital, a fund that partners with self-funded searchers acquiring small businesses through ETA. After building and exiting businesses of his own, making personal
Matt Plooster returns to the podcast to deliver a timely update on private credit and specifically its deployment in the lower middle market. Despite lingering gaps in awareness and education among business owners and pr
Today’s guest is James Bohannon of Belzberg & Co., a family office with a significant history of backing lower middle market independent sponsors and leading direct investments. James joins Peter to discuss the emerging
Today’s guest is Eliot Kerlin, Founder and Managing Partner of Broadwing Capital. With 25 years of experience in the lower middle market, Eliot reflects on how the ecosystem has evolved—from fund sizes and leverage trend
Today’s guests are Thomas Ince and Logan Lowery, Managing Partners of LP First Capital, a top-rated independent sponsor that has closed 70 deals in just six years. Ince and Lowery share the origin of the firm’s name and
Today’s guest is Bo Stump, a partner at Stump & Company, a family-owned third-generation M&A advisory firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The folks at Stump & Company are among the most trusted and respected thinker
Today’s guest is Nick Huber, founder and owner of Bolt Storage and current CEO of Somewhere.com, a worldwide staffing business acquired in 2024. Nick joins Peter to discuss the formative acquisitions across his entrepren
On today’s episode, Kyle Tucker, founder of Tucker’s Farm Corporation, joins Peter Lehrman to share his journey from big league private equity and hedge fund land to creating a unique investment platform focused on roll-
Today’s guest is Lance Fenton, a Partner at Serent Capital, a private equity fund investing in bootstrapped vertical market software businesses. In this episode, Lance breaks down Serent’s software investment thesis, how
This episode features guests Royce Yudkoff and Richard (Rick) Ruback, co-authors of the Harvard Business Review Guide to Buying a Small Business, and professors at Harvard Business School (HBS). Royce and Rick have spent
Do you love your home “IT and AV guy”? We didn’t think so. In this episode, Peter Lehrman sits down with Hagan Kappler, co-founder of Daisy, an emerging national player leader in home technology installation, integration
In this episode, Peter Lehrman sits down with Adam Breslawsky, founding partner and managing director of lower middle market investment bank Oberon Securities. Adam shares Oberon's origin story, detailing its humble begi
In this episode, Peter Lehrman sits down with Sam Rosati, founder of Pursuant Capital and the original sponsor of Perimeter Solutions Group (PSG), to explore his approach to scaling a single commercial fencing business i
In this episode, Peter Lehrman sits down with Michael Arrieta, founder of Garden City, to discuss his unique journey from a successful career in tech with companies like DocuSign to founding a people-first holding compan
Today’s conversation is with Ryan Sullivan, Managing Director and Co-Founder at North Park Group (https://northparkgroup.com/), a Chicago-based private investment firm focused on acquiring and operating US-based manufact
Today’s conversation is with Tom Barber, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at SBJ Capital (https://www.sbjcap.com), a California-based private equity firm investing into the consumer and business services verticals. In thi
Today’s guest is Marshall Lockton. Marshall spent 15 years in sales, sales strategy and sales training roles within his family’s storied private insurance brokerage business (Lockton) before leaving to acquire his first
Today’s guest is Rafael "Rafa" Quinn, co-founder and President of Alternative Holdings, a diversified holding company with subsidiaries in food services, retail, industrial sales, and business process outsourcing. Rafa’s
Today’s guest is Matt Plooster, founder and CEO of Bridgepoint, a boutique investment bank based in Omaha, Nebraska. We start the conversation with a background on private credit and its origins. From there we proceed to
In this episode, we interview Bob Falahee, the recently exited founder of SunPro Motorized Awnings & Screens. Bob’s entrepreneurial origin story starts in Michigan, where he was a sales leader for a semi-truck trailer ma
Matt Plooster
CEO & Co-Founder · Bridgepoint Investment Banking
2 appearances on this show
Eliot Kerlin
Co-Founder and Managing Partner · Broadwing Capital
1 appearance on this show
Nick Huber
entrepreneur and author of "The Sweaty Startup" · Pinnacle Financial Partners
1 appearance on this show
Kyle Tucker
wealth coach, realtor, investor · Tucker’s Farm Corporation
1 appearance on this show
Hagan Kappler
CEO of DaisyCo.com Franchise · Daisy
1 appearance on this show
Michael Arrieta
CEO and Founder · Garden City Companies
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Sullivan
Managing Director and Co-Founder · Higher Level Hearing
1 appearance on this show
Tom Barber
Co-Founder and Managing Partner · University of Arkansas
1 appearance on this show
Marshall Lockton
Lockton
1 appearance on this show
Rafael "Rafa" Quinn
Alternative Holdings
1 appearance on this show
Bob Falahee
SunPro Motorized Awnings & Screens
1 appearance on this show
Glenn Oken
Mangrove Equity Partners
1 appearance on this show
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