Scaling Your Business: From Early Stage to Long-Term Growth with Joe Ort
Release Date: 09/21/2025
The B2B Growth Blueprint
Mark Osborne welcomes Jonathan Goldhill, business coach, author, and expert in guiding family-owned companies through growth and transition. With decades of experience working alongside entrepreneurs and family businesses, Jonathan has developed a proven approach to helping organizations professionalize operations, clarify leadership roles, and build sustainable enterprise value. His coaching emphasizes the unique challenges faced by family businesses, where personal relationships and generational dynamics often intersect with strategic decision-making. In this episode, Jonathan...
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Mark Osborne welcomes Pete Becchina, a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, to explore sustainable growth and successful business exits in family-owned companies. With deep expertise in guiding owners through every phase from launch to exit, Pete brings clarity to the complex process of transition planning. He highlights the common mistakes business owners make when preparing for exits and underscores the importance of proper planning and preparation to maximize enterprise value. In this episode, Pete shares practical insights on business valuation, succession planning, and partnership...
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Mark Osborne welcomes Gary Hallett, co-founder of Gateway Business Advisors and Strategic Business Valuations, to discuss how business owners can better understand, protect, and optimize the value of their companies. Gary shares how his own early experiences buying and selling a business without valuation knowledge led him into business brokerage and exit planning, and why most owners are unprepared for what will likely be the biggest financial transition of their lives. He explains the gap between what owners think their business is worth and what the market will pay, the importance...
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In this episode of the B2B Growth Blueprint Podcast, host Mark Osborne interviews T. Vincent “Vince” Barbarie, Senior Director of Engineering at IPD and CTO of Industrial Digital Solutions. Vince shares his journey from a kid who loved taking things apart to a leader overseeing engineering, product development, technical support, and warranty for heavy-duty diesel and natural gas components, while also running an automotive media brand, Daily Turismo. He talks about blending deep engineering roots with creativity, communication, and people leadership, and how his experience at both large...
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Alejandra Santos, founder of Into the Next and host of the Scale to Exit Podcast, joins host Mark Osborne on the B2B Growth Blueprint podcast to share how 17 years of experience in finance, operations, and strategic growth shaped her mission to help business owners scale lean and exit smart. With a background spanning CPG, tech, e-commerce, professional services, M&A, and CFO consulting, Alejandra explains why most businesses never achieve the exit they dream of—and how mindset, predictability, and operational clarity play a crucial role in creating a sellable asset. She breaks...
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David Weiss, chief services officer at MEDDICC and longtime sales leader, joins host Mark Osborne on the B2B Growth Blueprint podcast to share how two decades in technology, consulting, and professional services shaped his mission to help the sales community sell better. With experience at ADP, Outreach, Seismic, The Sales Collective, and as founder of DealDoc, David explains how MEDDICC gives revenue teams a common language to evaluate deals objectively, identify gaps, and run repeatable plays that drive consistent results. He breaks down why sales is ultimately change management,...
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Brent Stringer, owner of Exit Factor Indiana, discusses his diverse career in public accounting, leadership, and Exit Planning. He highlights the unique challenges small business owners face, such as overdependence on the owner and unrealistic valuation expectations. Stringer emphasizes the importance of preparing businesses for sale, suggesting a realistic timeline of 10 months and the need for documented processes. He notes a trend of younger business owners embracing Exit Planning earlier. Stringer's approach focuses on creating value for clients, often small businesses, to help them sell...
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Ryan Caracciolo is the founder and CEO of Striventa, a business growth agency focused on helping companies move beyond isolated tactics to achieve sustainable momentum. With over a decade of experience, Ryan has built a reputation for merging strategy, smart systems, and relentless execution to help healthcare, real estate, and service-based businesses grow with measurable ROI. In this episode, Ryan joins host Mark Osborne to discuss the evolution of marketing and sales alignment, the power of productizing services, and how his high-performance website platform, Hyperdrive WP, is...
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Patrick McMillan is a seasoned fractional CFO and M&A advisor known in the deal community as the Q of E guy. As head of Transaction Advisory at Amplēo, he leads quality of earnings and financial due diligence engagements and collaborates with valuations, outsourced CFOs and controllers, HR, marketing, and sales tax teams across the deal life cycle. Drawing on his experience buying and selling companies and advising more than 100 transactions totaling over 2 billion dollars, Patrick explains what truly drives quality of earnings, why exit planning is good business planning, and how a...
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Mark Osborne welcomes Daniel Feiman, founder and managing director of Build It Backwards, a consulting and training firm based in Redondo Beach, California. With a career spanning manufacturing, marketing, and commercial banking before launching his own firm nearly 30 years ago, Daniel brings a rare blend of practical operator experience and executive advisory depth. He’s advised organizations across 30+ countries including Apple, Dell, Hilton, and Credit Suisse, taught at UCLA Extension for over 25 years, served as a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield in the UK, authored...
info_outlineJoe Ort, founder and CEO of RevOps Inflection, joins host Mark Osborne to discuss how B2B companies can scale from founder-led sales to a sustainable, repeatable revenue engine. Joe shares insights from his 15+ years of experience helping companies grow from $10 million to over $100 million in revenue by aligning sales, marketing, and customer success. He emphasizes that successful growth isn't just about adopting new technology; it’s about a people, process, and tools approach that focuses on a holistic view of the customer lifecycle.
In this episode, Joe and Mark explore how businesses can move beyond traditional sales operations to a full-scale revenue operations (RevOps) model, providing actionable advice for leaders navigating this transition.
Key Takeaways:
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Focus on Productivity: RevOps is defined by its focus on productivity, which is the combination of efficiency (doing things faster) and effectiveness (doing the right things). The goal is to make the entire revenue engine work smarter.
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Systemize Founder-Led Sales: Companies that rely on founder-led sales hit a bottleneck. To scale, they must document and systematize the founder’s knowledge into a repeatable sales process that new hires can follow.
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Start with Fundamentals: Don't get overwhelmed by the vast number of MarTech and RevOps tools. A company’s first step should be to define its Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and a repeatable process. Only then should they look for tools that can support and accelerate that process.
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Leverage "Fuzzy Math": Go-to-market data is often messy, but it doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful. As Joe says, "fuzzy math over time shows trends." Focus on directional insights and look for patterns rather than getting lost in false precision.
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The Future is in Customer Data: The next frontier of RevOps is using customer success data to drive top-of-funnel growth. By understanding what existing customers love about a product, companies can identify "lookalikes" and build a flywheel effect that generates new, high-quality leads.
Quotes:
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"Most RevOps people will tell you they fell into the role. It's not something that you say, this is what I want to be when I grow up."
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"If you have a bad process, that's just going to help you do bad things faster."
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"It's people, process, then tools. It's not tools to come up with what the process is that your people are going to use."
Conclusion:
Scaling a B2B company requires moving beyond ad-hoc strategies and into a structured, data-driven revenue model. By focusing on people and process before adopting new technology, organizations can build a resilient and profitable growth engine that provides a sustainable competitive advantage.
Connect with Joe Ort:
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Website: www.revopsinflection.com
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephort/