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Manufacturing Opportunity: Look Where Others Aren't
About this episode
Jules Brenner searched for 2.5 years before buying a manufacturer with great tailwinds and a path to $100m in revenue.
Topics in Jules' interview:
- Jules's background in mechanical engineering & California startups
- Starting out with Searchfunder.com
- The difficulty of searching during COVID
- The 4 tiers of manufacturing companies
- What type of manufacturing business to buy
- His deal with an architectural lighting manufacturer that fell through
- Sam Rosati's role as an advisor
- What Jules was doing wrong in his search
- The real purpose of a broker
- How sellers always gets what they want
- Acquiring and growing American Sheet Metal
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