Startup Acquisition Stories With Jeel Patel, Founder of InvoiceOwl

Startup Acquisition Stories With Jeel Patel, Founder of InvoiceOwl

Author: Acquire.com June 3, 2024 Duration: 23:28

Jeel Patel and his father built InvoiceOwl, an online invoicing tool for tradesmen like plumbers after Jeel noticed his family’s landscaper using an inefficient paper invoicing system. Three years later, they sold the company for six figures on Acquire.com.


Listen to Jeel share his insights and learnings from running his startup to the acquisition process:

  • How Jeel discovered there was still room in a niche with behemoth-sized competitors

  • How Heel played the SEO game to build hype around InvoiceOwl

  • What Jeel believes is the most important thing to include in your startup sales process

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Behind every successful startup acquisition, there's a story-a complex mix of strategy, emotion, and paperwork that rarely gets discussed openly. Startup Acquisition Stories, from the team at Acquire.com, pulls back the curtain on those real-world transactions. Each episode features founders and entrepreneurs who have personally navigated the process of selling or buying a business through their platform. You'll hear them recount the nuanced decisions that don't make it into press releases: the challenging conversations around valuation, the subtle art of vetting the opposite party, and the critical, often overlooked, steps after the handshake. This podcast digs into the practicalities of due diligence, structuring terms, and managing the transfer of assets, all the way through to escrow and the crucial post-deal transition. It’s a grounded, detail-oriented look at the mechanics of a business exit or expansion, straight from the people who’ve lived it. For anyone curious about the actual path to a deal, beyond the theory, this series offers a rare archive of lived experience and hard-won advice.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Startup Acquisition Stories
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Duration: 16:05
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Duration: 9:25
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