Matt Breton

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Matt Breton is an e-commerce entrepreneur who founded BigPawShop, a Canadian online store specializing in custom-designed dog collars. He bootstrapped the business leanly into a profitable niche brand before successfully selling it via Acquire.com.

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Insight

Breton: Founders must maintain urgency because time kills acquisition deals

“Time kills all deals. Like if you see somebody who's in, who's interested in your business, keep them engaged, keep working them, keep massaging it. You gotta keep with it. You know, they're going to be looking at other deals. They might be busy. They might be…”

Matt Breton Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 23:53 Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acquired

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Breton: Canadian pet stores are dominated by repetitive mainstream brands

“Every dog store that you go to in Canada, maybe in the U S as well, but a lot of the brick and mortar stores have the same products. You know, it's always, you know, I don't want to necessarily call out names in a bad way here, but you do see like Kong a lot, …”

Matt Breton Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 1:54 Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acquired

Disclosure

Breton: Thorough preparation allowed due diligence to finish in two weeks

“The due diligence phase was I was prepared for it to be almost grueling, so to speak. You know, I was anticipating that and just because of how well prepared we were, it was a very easy look over took, I want to say two weeks, if that maybe a week and a half a…”

Matt Breton Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 19:28 Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acquired

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acqui	Jun 10, 2025	18m

Matt Breton

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