Have a Financial Education or Publishing company? Interested in the details of becoming acquired? Get your answers in today's episode. Ian is the CRO of Magnifi a division of Tifin and has acquired a number of smaller educators and publishers over the past couple years.

00:00 | Who is Ian Rosen?
05:56 | Why acquire Financial Education Companies?
08:11 | Is it easier to build a product or an audience?
09:28 | Why not start from scratch vs acquiring a Fined/Finpub company
10:39 | Why aquire when you can joint venture or strike an affiliate deal?
12:47 | How big of a factor are compliance issues when acquiring a company?
17:30 | Did Ian ever consider acquiring companies related to Fintech?
19:04 | Psychology behind Ian's ideal partners
22:20 | Short list on why an acquisition would be attractive to a Finpub
24:04 | The beauty of financial alchemy "Finpub to Fintech"
27:32 | How have current acquisitions gone? What was learned? Plans going forward?
30:44 | Does bad aqcuisition matter less if the backend monetization succeeds?
34:16 | What types of products are working right now?
36:15 | Themes on what marketing works better than others
37:28 | Build a Financial Education company without the Guru phase?
38:49 | Acquiring companies with established audiences vs faceless companies
39:58 | What type of Revenue Multiples do you look to pay companies you aquire
42:30 | Lifetime relationships with founders?
43:24 | Compensation model for acquired founders?
45:00 | What marketing machine will future partners have access to?
46:48 | Amount of control business owners are going to lose
49:51 | Ideal company size that Ian plans to acquire
50:43 | What Ian wishes to fix at an early stage
56:00 | Ian explains "Chateau Fibonacci"
57:09 | Ian's advice for business owners who are planning to quit
1:00:13 | Ian's recommended book that he read recently

Today we are speaking with Mark of Bitcoin.live. Check out the annotations for easy scrolling.

00:00 - 1:44 How did Mark start?
01:45 - 03:36 What inspired Mark to get here?
3:37 - 05:07 Did Mark get drawn to Bitcoin because of the fast gains?
05:08 - 07:25 Secure safe path or try something else?
07:26 - 09:31 Personality training is the key?
09:32 - 12:13 Why go into altcoins space if Bitcoin is the way?
12:14 - 15:22 A way to predict the timing of Bitcoin's adoption?
15:23 - 19:24 What keeps Mark in Bitcoin during the "bear markets"?
19:25 - 20:13 The logic about buying.
20:14 - 23:28 What is fractional reserve banking and how did some of the banks get into trouble?
23:29 - 25:21 Mark's opinion on bank bailouts?
25:22 - 25:52 Bitcoin taking over the monetary system?
25:53 - 29:01 The U.S national debt and the inflation going forward.
29:02 - 30:48 The future of Bitcoin live.

Today we are speaking with the Co-Founder of Trade Thirsty Jeanette Sims! Get her backstory, what her company does by listening to this episode.

00:00 - 12:26 = Where did Jeanette start?
12:27 - 16:49 = How young is the internet?
16:50 - 19:04 = How does Trade Thirsty operate?
19:05 - 26:52 = What is the pain point for publishers or educators?
26:53 - 29:04 = If you're a financial educator or publisher, who would you connect with?
29:05 - 35:48 = Difference between an A player and a B player
35:49 - 36:40 = What do clients want?
36:41 - 41:20 = What is something you wasted a significant amount of time on?
41:21 - 46:12 = What's the book that Jeanette has been reading lately that the audience that can benefit from?
46:13 - 47:13 = Who is Jeanette jealous of in YouTube