Justin Vanderheide
Co-Owner, Steel Peak Climbing & Ninja. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Vanderheide created Swimgen and a suite of paid Zendesk Marketplace apps via Blue Geyser Software, selling both in separate exits in 2023. In 2022, he co-founded Steel Peak Climbing and Ninja, an indoor rock climbing and ninja obstacle training facility in Vaughan, Ontario.
1shows
1appearances
9statements
1resolved
1supported
0contradicted
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Everything Justin Vanderheide said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Vanderheide: Founders Should Provide Granular Raw Data in Acquisition Listings
“Over explain everything in your listing. There's not going to be too much data available to people. So, you know, if you've got the exact, you know, monthly data points of visits, revenue, everything like they can break it out and look at it however they want.…”
Vanderheide: Selling Founders Should Accept Almost Every Buyer Call Request
“I'd say pretty well every request for a face-to-face call, and I wouldn't be too choosy unless you're overwhelmingly busy. You never know what's going to come out of that discussion face-to-face. I maybe only had one that was like really not productive and sho…”
Vanderheide: Never Hide Flaws; Share Raw Data Upfront in Due Diligence
“Don't try to, like, hide things, it'll, it'll come out in due diligence, so I'm just in that initial data dump, like I said, over-explain, just post all the raw data, even if you've got it, and they can look at it as is.”
Vanderheide Recreated Sunsetted Zendesk Apps for One Dollar Per Agent Monthly
“So I recreated a bunch of the apps that had been available for free nominal price of, you know, one dollar per support agent per month and managed to get those out really quick.”
Vanderheide: US-Canada Acquisitions Cannot Directly Transfer Stripe Accounts
“Because I was Canadian, getting acquired by American companies, we couldn't just transfer the Stripe account because it's, like, set as a Canadian entity type thing, so we had to actually, like, switch over Stripe keys and stuff, which wasn't as seamless, but …”
Vanderheide Bootstrapped Swimgen to Serve Every YMCA in Canada
“Sort of just bootstrapped it with that, that first customer and through word of mouth, like every YMCA in Canada was publishing on this along with, you know, municipalities, military bases, what have you. And so we grew from like one customer to hundreds of po…”
Vanderheide: Answering Early Buyer Questions Progressively Improves M&A Data Packages
“People had a lot of questions, but anytime you go digging and you answer their questions, you know, you just put that with all the other data and then for any future folks that come along, it's there. And so the data you have available for people, you know, ju…”
Vanderheide Rejected Private Equity Offers to Sell Swimgen to Solo Developer
“Yeah, for SwimGen, I felt quite strongly about making sure the right person was taking it on, and so the private equity firms, family offices, the more businessy folks, I was shying away from a little bit. In the end, I did sell it to sort of like passionate, …”
Vanderheide Sold Zendesk Apps Portfolio to an Investor Aggregator Group
“On the Zendesk side of things, I didn't feel as passionately that it had to be, you know, passionate solo dev. And so that one went to like a group of investors that are just scooping up a bunch of smaller, smaller apps and things like that.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Justin's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 ACQUISITION STORIESLEDGER | Co-Owner, Steel Peak Climbing & Ninja | 1 | 9 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Startup Acquisition Stories → |