VIDEOS / 2023-09-07

How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)

04 IDEAS EXTRACTED — RANKED BY BERG SCORE

01COMMUNITYBERG 75BUILD

Niche Professional Community Platform (Everything Marketplaces Model)

Build a hyper-niche paid community with a curated knowledge hub, investor database, and events for a specific professional archetype — modeled after Everything Marketplaces' 1,800-member, 7-figure community.

ARR $90K–$2M · AUTO 5/10

☆

02COMMUNITYBERG 74BUILD

ScalePath: Reforge for Small Business

A Slack-based CEO peer network and playbook library for small business owners doing $500K–$5M in revenue who want practical, asynchronous operational guidance.

ARR $120K–$1.2M · AUTO 5/10

☆

03ACQUISITIONBERG 71BUILD

Vertical Market Software Roll-Up (Mini-Constellation)

Acquire small vertical-market SaaS businesses with sticky customers, hold them for cash flow, and reinvest proceeds to compound acquisitions — a smaller-scale replication of Constellation Software's model.

ARR $200K–$5M · AUTO 6/10

☆

04CREATOR ECONOMYBERG 55MAYBE

Holdco Media / Creator Business for Operators

Build a small media team around a business operator's personal brand — producing short-form video, social content, and courses — to generate revenue and reduce the friction cost of deal flow, fundraising, and hiring.

ARR $50K–$1.4M · AUTO 5/10

☆