Still Searching with Jed Morris

Still Searching is an exploration of entrepreneurship through acquisition, examining the gap between theory and practice in lower middle-market business transactions. Host Jed Morris conducts in-depth interviews with practitioners across the acquisition ecosystem: SBA lenders, M&A attorneys, business brokers, search fund investors, independent sponsors, CPAs, and searchers at every stage of the process. Each conversation unpacks the structural, financial, and operational realities that determine transaction outcomes. jedmorris.substack.com

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  Episode #13

  Andrew Engram: Independent Sponsor Lessons from a Deal That Fell Apart

  Mar 16, 202658 minS1

  <p>On this episode of Still Searching with Jed Morris, independent sponsor Andrew Engram of Lightning Rod Capital breaks down what it actually takes to buy lower middle market companies when you raise capital deal by deal.</p><p></p><p>Andrew's road runs from walking on to the Texas A&M football team to managing offshore drilling projects in Scotland, Rotterdam, and Korea, to getting laid off in the oil crash and rebuilding through an MBA, a stack of VC rejections, and a co-founded boutique investment bank. Then he left to build his own firm. His first deal as...

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  Episode #12

  Renan Cortez: $8M Restoration Business, 100% Seller Financing, Zero Down

  Nov 16, 20251h 32mS1

  <p>On this episode of Still Searching with Jed Morris, Army veteran Renan Cortez explains how he bought an $8 million restoration business with 100% seller financing and zero money down, and what happened when it all came apart two years later.</p><p></p><p>The deal itself is a masterclass. An off-market find, a QoE before terms, and a negotiation at a diner where buyer and seller worked one calculator together until they landed on 7% over 12 years. No bank. No broker. A page and a half with ketchup stains that a lawyer turned into a 74-page APA.</p><p></p><...

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  Episode #11

  Six Real Stories of Small Business Failure with Andrew Hoffman | Halloween

  Nov 5, 202559 minS1

  <p>For Halloween, Still Searching with Jed Morris joins Andrew Hoffman of the Search Fund Coalition for Tales from the Search Crypt: six real stories of small business acquisitions that ended in the graveyard.</p><p></p><p>A $20 million healthcare deal that lost most of its EBITDA nine months after close. A 100% seller-financed plumbing buy that turned into a fight over $600,000 in receivables. A star salesman who turned out to be the most toxic person in the building, holding half the revenue hostage. A parts manufacturer that tripled capacity on cheap money right before the market normalized. A searcher...

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  Episode #10

  Sergeant to CEO: Marine Michael Johnson Buys a Sign Shop with an SBA Loan

  May 25, 20251h 22mS1

  <p>On this episode of Still Searching with Jed Morris, Marine Corps veteran Michael Johnson breaks down how he bought SpeedPro, a wide-format print and sign shop near Raleigh, with an SBA loan, then bolted on a second shop with 100% seller financing.</p><p></p><p>Michael's path was not a weekend course. It was Fallujah as an infantry NCO, restaurant floors, five years running a metal fab shop, crane and rigging operations, and a stretch as a full-time financial writer. By the time he found SpeedPro on BizBuySell, he knew his numbers cold: two years of expenses banked, not...

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  Episode #9

  Financial Due Diligence Secrets Behind M&A Deals with Jonathan Hutchins

  May 5, 202550 minS1

  <p>On this episode of Still Searching with Jed Morris, M&A financial due diligence pro Jonathan Hutchins pulls back the curtain on what actually happens between LOI and close. Jonathan is a CPA who cut his teeth in audit at EY before moving to the diligence side, and he now works deals from a $300K enterprise value all the way up to nearly $100M. His take: deal size matters less than you think. Industry drives the complexity, and the same landmines show up at every level.</p><p></p><p>Jed and Jonathan walk the fundamentals a first-time buyer...

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