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Ramon Van Meer

1 appearance on the record.

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Ramon Van Meer is an entrepreneur who focuses on acquiring existing businesses rather than building them from scratch. He analyzes strategies for business research and evaluating prospective acquisitions.

8statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 4.12/5average certainty → 1.25/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 49said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ramon argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Van Meer: SBA loans fund up to 90% of internet business acquisitions
“You can use SBA loans to buy internet businesses. SBA loan is basically a business loan, small business loan that I don't know when they started a few years ago, where they now also fund internet businesses. And you can borrow up to 90%. So technically you can…”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 25:31 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ramon Van Meer on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ramon Van Meer said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Van Meer Avoids Acquiring Sites From Internet Marketers Due to Capped Upside
“I tend to not buy websites from other internet marketers because they're already Did all the things that I probably would do for it. So it's not really room for growth.”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 8:26 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Insight
Van Meer: Growing too fast in construction or e-commerce can cause bankruptcy
“Where construction, you really, it's a similar, a little bit similar, like with e-commerce, I think you could grow yourself into bankruptcy, if that makes sense. Making, for example, you with a construction, same with e-commerce, you have to put a lot of money…”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 39:51 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alpha Paw Founders Ran Zero Ads and Sent No Emails Before Acquisition
“This case the two founders were not doing any Facebook ads. There was no paid acquisition happening at all. And even though they had a, These inside customer database, they were not emailing even existing customers, let alone trying to capture, you know, a car…”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 9:40 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van Meer: Word Game Website Generates $3M Profit on $3.5M Revenue
“So for example, there's one for sale now for nine million dollars. They started it in 2017. It does 3.5 million in revenue. And because there's no really team needed, it's like, it's almost all profit. It's like three, around three million dollars of profit.”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 11:22 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Assertion Supported
Van Meer: SBA loans fund up to 90% of internet business acquisitions
“You can use SBA loans to buy internet businesses. SBA loan is basically a business loan, small business loan that I don't know when they started a few years ago, where they now also fund internet businesses. And you can borrow up to 90%. So technically you can…”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 25:31 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Disclosure
Van Meer Finances 20% to 40% of Acquisitions Through Seller Notes
“Every time I buy business, that's never a hundred percent cash on closing. I always have 60 to 80% cash on closing, and the remaining, it's either seller's note or not.”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 26:47 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Insight
Van Meer: First-time online business buyers should hire due diligence firms
“If you are new to this, if you are, you know, it's your first business, you can, Hire a due diligence company Centurica, Centurica.com is one. I think those are the biggest well known. You pay, you know, it depends on the listing price, but it's as cheap as a …”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 30:05 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van Meer Bought a Piñata Site for $5K, Sold for $22K
“I bought that for 5000 dollars that I scraped together improve the website traffic and make my money back in two and a half months and then sold it a month later for 22,000.”
Ramon Van Meer Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 14:38 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw

The other half of the tape: Ramon Van Meer's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 48 times in 15 episodes on My First Million. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 30Sam Parr 17Suleman "Suli" Ali 1

Statements about Ramon Van Meer, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van Meer Generated $35M in Sales From a $300K Dog Ramp Business
“Two and a half years ago, I bought a dog ramp business for 300,000 dollars. Already interesting. What the heck is a dog ramp business? Since then I've sold thirty five million dollars of dog ramps.”
Shaan Puri Oct 22, 2021 ▶ 2:45 From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw Oct 22, 2021 31m
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