Markell Blount

My name is Markell Blount. I’m originally from Boston, and spent the last six months in Savannah, Georgia. I’ve got a background in software consulting, and commercial real estate sales.

Markell Blount

Some of the stuff that we’ve learned, just looking at the marketing materials and things of that nature, but a lot of the strategies really almost feel … I don’t know if stupid is the right word, but there’s just a lot of obvious stuff that’s there, that we never was able to put together for M&A type activities, and a lot of the different strategies. But more importantly, for me, it’s just the content, but also just the community. I think I’ve already got some calls set up with some of the folks that I’ve met here today, to try to get some joint venture opportunities done. So, so far, so good. It’s just amazing, and so far, even this morning, just a lot of great content.

Markell Blount

I think it provides a great amount of content. Love the accent. Can’t lie about that. And overall, again, the way he presents the material and answers a lot of your questions.

Markell Blount

One of the folks, one of the gentleman that I got a chance to meet with yesterday brought a really interesting point, that this is the first event here in the US. And so, his thinking was, “What if I went to the London event?” Just because it’s been around, it’s been there, since 2009. But he thought, “You know what? I’ll come to this event because the folks that are here are going to be serious. They’re talking a pretty big risk to come to the first event here in the US.” And just based on my experience so far, I’d have to agree that you have very serious people here in the room. Deal-makers, business owners, sales folks. And I think we’re going to have a lot of fun, really building this community here in the US.

Markell Blount

There’s nothing like … The content is there. Believe me. You’re going to learn a lot from that. You can learn a lot from the videos and all that, but more importantly, it’s all about doing deals, facilitating opportunities with people here in the room, building your network up. And that, to me, is probably my biggest takeaway. So I would tell anybody that’s interesting, remotely interested in jumping in, doing deals, learning how to structure deals with small, medium-sized businesses, this is the place to do it. I’ve seen other programs. I’ve been to other events. So far, there’s nothing like it. Obviously, all-inclusive here in Miami. I couldn’t ask for a better place to be. Here to learn how to buy and sell businesses.

Markell Blount

But it’s another to actually see people that have gone through the program, that are actively doing deals, multiple deals, and just seeing that, and having an opportunity to sit and talk with them about what you’re learning. Other conversations, I’ve had some conversations with folks that are doing government contracts and they’re looking for joint venture partners, and I’ve got some folks in my background on the technology side to be able to connect them so that they can partner and do deals. So, again, joint venture galore. Whether that’s acquiring a company or, again, putting a deal together. You’re all going to get all those opportunities coming to an event like this.