Michael Girdley (@Girdley), Bill D’Alessandro (@BillDA) and Mills Snell (@thegeneralmills) are joined by Andrew Gazdecki (@Agazdecki) to talk about 2 Deals: A Shopify automated SMS and an eCommerce Cartoon generating illustration company. We also talk about how we see buyers, market prices, government financing grants, and more.-----Thanks to our sponsor!MoreNow.co: We help owners build a high functioning, experienced team by leveraging the top manager/director talent in the Phillippines.Go to morenow.co and fill out the form. Or email hire@morenow.co. Mention this pod for 20% of your first hire.-----* Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.* Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!* Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations.-----Acquisitions Anonymous Episode 100!Show Notes:(1:14) - Morenow.co(3:06) - Andrew Gazdecki is our Guest today!(9:12) - What are you seeing on the buyer's side? (13:01) - Government financing grants(14:29) - How do we see the market right now? What’s going on with the prices?(15:51) - Deal 1: Shopify automated SMS tool(16:00) - How does it work? How do we understand its value?(19:00) - Why is this business so profitable? What is their cost structure like?(20:40) - What is the technology like for this business? Is there proprietary software here?(22:00) - Who would buy this?(25:02) - What is the challenge of starting this business?(26:00) - QSBS tax treatment: How does it work?(29:00) - Deal 2: eCommerce Cartoon generating illustration company(30:35) - How do we think about this business? What is the CAC like?(34:10) - What is the durability of the revenue stream?(35:50) - Bonus deal: Procurement software Saas business-----Past guests on Acquanon include Nick Huber, Brent Beshore, Aaron Rubin, Mike Botkin, Ari Ozick, Mitchell Baldridge, Xavier Helgelsen, Mike Loftus, Steve Divitkos, Dzmitry Miranovich, Morgan Tate and more.-----Additional episodes you might enjoy:#96 From W-2 to Business Owner - Patrick Dichter tells us how to cold reach sellers and we discuss 2 Deals#92 Wait... what? You laid-off 90% of your staff?!? - Pete Erickson joined us for an exciting WarStories episode!#87 Yelp is not evil! Building a business using digital CAC - Featuring Johnny Robinson from Orange Window Cleaning#79 What do Investors want? - Dig into an investor’s mind with Bradford Hardin#75 SBA Loan Secrets with Heather Endresen, expertise from a Billion-Dollar Loaner