Bill D'Alessandro
@BillDA
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Built & sold 8 DTC/SaaS companies. Pioneered the ecommerce aggregator model. Host the @acquanon podcast. Now acquiring pet brands @ FoodScience/Morgan Stanley.
Charlotte, NC
Joined July 2007
Here's my big personal news: Natural Dog Company has been acquired by FoodScience, a Morgan Stanley Capital Partners portfolio company! After 13 years, the journey that started with me quitting my job to go all-in on Elements Brands has officially come to an end. What started
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This is very good management and hiring advice buried in a thread
@therobertbrooks Just want to encourage you: It is possible to find people who do this, it can just take time. Also, a gentle reminder: what you’re describing- the ability to think critically about something new, and find a solution through trial and error without being told- is itself a
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This is one of my favorite events of the year for business owners! I’ll be giving a talk called “How to Get Acquired by a Strategic” It’s pretty wild such a nerdy topic puts me on the same speaker card as Tim Tebow, but that’s the type of place Main Street Summit is.
We’re about a month out from @MainStSummit. Here’s a guide I put together. When: Nov. 4-6 Where: Columbia, MO Who: 1000+ SMB owners, operators, investors What: 2.5 day festival, 120+ speakers, 16 venues Why: To bring together the SMB community GA passes start at $250. That gets
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In my baby entrepreneur days, I started a website called Startup Styles I hired Upwork artists to make posters/shirts out of quotes from famous entrepreneurs. Fulfilled using a print on demand service. I think I made about $1000 But I still have 3 of the posters on my wall :)
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Tim Ferriss summed this up as “reality is negotiable” and I made it into a framed poster above my desk. The greatest life hack is realizing there are no limits.
Understand that most barriers are temporary, most gatekeepers can be bypassed, and most limitations exist only if you accept them.
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For sale: 15-year-old "cat memes on Facebook" business, $2.3M. @BillDA: "If you can go long enough without rolling a seven on this thing, you could do great." Are you ready to live or die by Zuck's algorithm? Does a 95% profit margin change your answer? New episode out now.
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There is no way in hell I’m training Sora on my face and voice just to make stupid videos
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How much money are we saving every day that the government is shut down?
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Meh, Meta’s models will be able to do Sora style vids natively in fairly short order. Distribution / social graph is a powerful moat, as has been discovered by anyone who’s had a feature (or entire business) cloned by Meta, Microsoft, etc.
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Considering it a major win that there are zero Sora videos in my feed Good work everyone
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Leaving ECF Live with a full heart. Super good to be back among the people. Good to see: @BillDA @allenthird @kelceylehrich @andrewjfaris @youderian @DaveRekuc @willroman @bandholz @Carson And so many others whose handles I don't know. Many new friends as well. Jump in the
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Law firms are coming out of the wood work looking for brands who want to sue Google Apparently Google overcharged advertisers since 2016, and these law firms are promising UP TO 30% refunds on all spend since then This is potentially 10s of millions of dollars. The law firms
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Remember when I posted about finding $211,000 Amazon owed me? I'm now up to $557,336 recovered, including $48,895.04 AFTER Amazon's "reimbursements are dead" policy changes. Here's how it (still) works. Back in 2024, I already had a refund tool hooked up to our Amazon account.
Today I am $211,000 richer and Jeff Bezos is $211,000 poorer 🤑 I did it by finding money Amazon owed us that our existing reimbursement tool had missed. Here's how to do it. If you sell on Amazon, you probably know there are a ton of Amazon inventory reimbursement tools out
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So the government has been shutdown for a day and life is exactly the same Interesting
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If you're under contract to buy a business with an SBA loan, it's time to start discussing exclusivity extensions
Gov't shutdown and SBA loans: 1. If your loan is in process but the bank does not yet have the SBA loan number, your loan can't close until after the gov't re-opens. Usually, the # is pulled by the bank when you are deep into the process and in closing because they must have a
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ECF Live szn, Bozeman Montana Come say hey if you’re in town
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