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With no PE background, Nick Huber had to learn quickly as he raised money to acquire a fast-growing offshoring agency.
Topics in Nick’s interview:
- Origin of the Sweaty Startup guy
- Nick’s role in Support Shepherd’s growth
- Backstory of the Support Shepherd deal
- How Nick structured incentives to make it worthwhile
- What turned off investors
- Inbound leads collapsing in year 1
- Is building a Twitter following worth it?
- Big changes to the business since acquisition
- The value (or not) of distribution
- Annual cost and org chart of Nick’s media team
- Why write a book
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- Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber
- Somewhere.com
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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