How to Raise Capital to Buy and Online Business

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Mohit Tater shares his acquisitions and investment journey, including growth strategies, revenue verification, and a focus on content sites and affiliates. He discusses raising capital, cap table structuring, and launching Blackbook investments. Mohit explores deal sourcing, negotiation tactics, and lessons learned from failed deals. He addresses investor characteristics, the Multi Member LLC Investment Vehicle setup, and managing investments. He touches on mentors, Webstreet platform, and plans for diversification.

SHOW NOTES:

00:00 Episode brought to you by The Magnolia Firm

00:34 Intro to Mohit Tater - how it all started

03:09 What did you do to grow your first acquisition?

05:21 Do you still use Flippa?

05:36 2nd Acquisition - getting scammed

06:55 What did you learn from getting scammed

07:38 How do you verify revenue

09:29 His focus: Content sites and affiliates

09:55 When he started buying larger revenue site and his first investor

12:01 Formal Pitch or Friends and Family

13:02 Investors ROI over 3 years

14:11 Where he found the deal and revenue numbers

14:50 Conversation with investor to sell

15:19 Deciding to reduce risks

16:20 A deal that did not work out - why it did not work out.

17:34 How he first structured the cap table with investors

18:40 Launching Blackbook investments

20:40 Minimum investment date of deployment

22:11 How many investors he has on his email list

22:47 Types, Size of Deals and On or Off Market & where he sells them

24:22 What he likes to do

25:22 How he negotiates overpriced deals

26:58 Rolling equity

28:05 Proof

28:23 Partners?

28:45 Sell your business Magnolia Firm

29:09 How long did it take to build a list of investors

30:27 What do these investors look like?

31:36 How he sets up the Multi Member LLC Investment Vehicle

33:56 Do investors get dividends?

34:47 How many investments do you current manage?

36:00 Where do you want this to go - what he needs in resources?

38:06 Who is your mentor?

39:38 Why not raise fund - and Webstreet

42:01 Webstreet Fees & value

44:58 How the Webstreet rolling fund decides on deals

46:46 What Webstreet investors expect to see

48:22 Do investors push back on forecasts

48:57 How do you qualify to be on Webstreet

49:57 What about working capital investment?

51:00 How many acquisitions have you made from Webstreet money?

52:43 Plans to buy bigger websites?

53:57 What he needs & diversifying

LINKS to Mohit Tater

www.linkedin.com/in/mohittater/

https://bbi.xyz/