Business Talk Sister Gawk

#129: Part 1 - How to Have a Trade Show Booth

Doing your first trade show can become expensive fast! Here's what you need to know to get your booth set up with the least amount of cost and attract the biggest crowd. 

#128: Part 2 - What is Loan Packaging?

What you bring to that meeting says a lot about you and your ability to execute. Wayne Kangas shares why you should always start with your local bank when it comes to business funding, even if they aren't your ideal source. He shares how you can structure funding by designing ratios into your business plan, or based on phased accomplishments. He stresses being prepared when you walk into a bank saying, "I'm looking to start this business." 

#127: Part 1 - What is Loan Packaging?

Loan packaging consultant, Wayne Kangas, discusses the importance of how you should prepare yourself before reaching out to financial institutions, investors, and more to ensure you're ready for the funding your business needs. Take a listen to get started!

How Do Private Equity Funds Look for Acquisitions?

An equity fund Director of Growth, Drew Lendermon discusses how businesses should prepare themselves if they ever want to be acquired by a private equity fund. If you've ever dreamed of preparing your business for this type of opportunity, take a listen!

What is a Private Equity Fund?

Private Equity funds are a topic not many people know about, (Probably because most people don't use them to manage their money!) Drew Lendermon works for a private equity fund doing acquisitions in the pet care industry, and he walks through what how they are funded, how they make decisions, and so much more! Take a listen. 

How to Prepare Your Business For Investors

Ever wondered how to prepare your business to get in front of investors? Malcolm Macaulay shares the different ways he started looking for capital to grow his business, and why he's going after investors. He gives us a good overview of what steps he took to get started in the process, and how he's preparing his business, LightSpeed Lift, for their review. Take a listen!

What is a Business Valuation?

Business valuations are typically done by an independent 3rd party to ensure the accuracy of a business' value when being purchased or passed on to a new owner. Northspan Vice President, Bob Palmquist shares the processes of how and why someone would want to this and what you need to know if you want to get one done yourself. Take a listen!

How Much is a Business Worth?

Here's why to be careful of benchmark rules, why it's important to dig into your industry's data, and why you should be adding value to your business years before you ever consider selling it. Northspan Vice President, Bob Palmquist, pulls from over 30 years of finance knowledge to help us understand how businesses can be quantified into actual worth. 

How Business Tycoons Made Their Wealth in Minnesota

This week, Aaron Brown talks about why "Robber Barons" were so dubbed, how much of our infrastructure was expedited by some pretty wealthy people, and where exactly they made a lot of their money in the early 1900's. If you love history, this episode is for you. 

Part 2 - Building Business Buzz Before The Internet

In the early 1900’s, this woman made a wild west town the place for women’s fashion. She managed to bring her business through buying out a competitor, surviving a fire that took $25K of her inventory, and even brought robbers to justice when the law was busy with bootleggers. Dottie Power was the instrumental force that brought high society fashion to rural America.