The First Steps to a Family Holdco

Family planning and entrepreneurship converged as Linh & Leo Van Deibel bought their first (and not last) business.

Topics in Linh & Leo’s interview:

• Making the case for business acquisition
• Taking family planning into account
• Searching in the UK as a non-citizen
• Being taken seriously as an Asian woman
• Their goal of building a holdco
• Thousands of meetings with sellers
• Search is a numbers game
• Brutal IVF process
• Giving up on acquiring SaaS
• Buying an engineering consulting firm

References and how to contact Linh & Leo:

• Linh Van Deibel LinkedIn
• Leo Deibel LinkedIn
• Their acquisition, Infrastructure Design Solutions
• Linh Tran on Acquiring Minds: The Dream Outcome: From $300k to $5m EBITDA

Get a complimentary IT audit of your target business:

• Email Nick Akers at [email protected], and tell him you’re a searcher

Learn more about Walker Deibel's done-with-you buy-side advisory:

• The Acquisition Lab

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• Oberle Risk Strategies - Search Fund Team

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• See past + future interviews on the YouTube channel
• Connect with host Will Smith on LinkedIn
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron