
Welcome to the “Masters in Small Business Mergers and Acquisitions podcast.” I am your host, Peter Lehrman, and I’m the Founder and CEO of Axial (www.axial.net), a trusted online platform for business owners & their M&A advisors to use to safely and intelligently explore and execute capital raises, acquisitions, and exits with strategic buyers or professional financial sponsors.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 25 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | InvestingBusinessEducationHow To | |||

Today’s guest is John Hill, Managing Partner of Hyde Park Capital, a boutique investment bank he co-founded in 2000. Hyde Park focuses on raising capital and selling American lower middle market businesses with $5M to $50M in EBITDA. The firm has spe... more
Today's guests are Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter, Co-Founders of Heritage Holding, an investment firm that has completed nearly 50 acquisitions across 12 active platform companies.
After graduating from HBS, where they met as classmates and intram... more
Today’s guest is Grant Hensel, founder of Entrepreneurial Capital, a fund that partners with self-funded searchers acquiring small businesses through ETA. After building and exiting businesses of his own, making personal ETA investments, and completi... more
Today's guest is Lane Carrick, founder of Optima Mergers & Acquisitions, a boutique lower middle market investment bank he launched in 2024. Lane brings a “renaissance man” profile and personal story to the M&A advisory seat: he grew up in the Holida... more
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A business-focused M&A podcast featuring operators, investors, and advisers who navigate the lower-middle market through independent sponsor structures, self-funded search funds, and private equity backs. Episodes consistently explore deal sourcing, founder psychology, governance post-close, and the evolving roles of ETA/F2E models, independent sponsorship, and AI-enabled dealmaking. Notable angles include hands-on operator involvement, practical playbooks for deal velocity, and how policy, capital access, and culture shape success in small-to-medium transactions.
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Recent guests on Masters in Small Business M&A include:
1. John Hill
2. Alex de Pfyffer
3. Ross Porter
4. Grant Hensel
5. Lane Carrick
6. Matt Plooster
7. James Bohannon
8. Eliot Kerlin
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