
About this episode
Morli Desai left corporate to scratch her entrepreneurial itch, using an SBA loan to buy an ecommerce biz with $1m SDE.
Topics in Morli Desai’s interview:
- Leaving her corporate job at 40
- Joining the Acquisition Lab
- Purchasing an ecommerce business
- How to approach brokers
- Transitioning an ecommerce business
- Purchasing an Australian entity
- Marketing with PPC
- Assessing risk in ecommerce
- Proprietary vs brokered search
- Inventory management in ecommerce
Links and how to contact Morli:
- 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Sam Harris’s app
- Quiet Light
- Market Watch by Centurica
- Joe Mcaleer of Multifunding, LLC
- Joel Ankney
- Amaira Natural Skincare
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