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In a world surrounded by opportunity The Exit talks to those people who have bought and sold businesses. In 30 minutes, you will learn how they did it, why they did it and a world of EXITS, currently occupied by a small few but accessible to most.
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Episode 92
Founder and CEO of Podopolo, Melinda Wittstock is fast-scaling the world's first socially-interactive and gamified podcast app and network. Think Spotify + Instagram + Creators' Economy + Social Impact. Podcasters make money from their content as listeners discover great podcasts from a 4mm+ library, and win rewards as they connect with hosts and each other, put learning into action, and join in world-changing initiatives. Read More
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Steve McGarry
An entrepreneur, content creator, and investor based in sunny Tampa, Florida. In 2015, while living in San Francisco, Steve sold his first fintech startup LendLayer to Max Levchin’s (founder of PayPal) consumer finance company Affirm.
Episode 91
Building a Global Community of Female Investors with Anne Cocquyt
Anne Cocquyt didn’t come from a traditional entrepreneurial background. It wasn’t until she got into the world of consulting that she realized she wanted to build ideas. With a failed art business under her belt, Anne moves on to the iPhone case market. With some success and an almost accidental exit, Anne now focuses on helping others to start their businesses. As the founder and CEO of The Guild, Anne helps other female entrepreneurs to get their ideas off the ground. Read More
Episode 90
What Are You Going to Solve with Joe Meyer
Joe Meyer is currently the Founder and CEO of CentralBOS, which provides cloud-based, ERP SaaS solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Prior to that, he’s had many successful exits of all shapes and sizes. Today he talks about how he did it and why. Read More
Episode 89
Failing Countless Times with Lucas Carlson
Today’s guest, Lucas Carlson, was CEO of AppFog, and now works as CTO of LEADx. He’s had plenty of experience building up companies and even seeing them through to acquisition. Today, he dives into some fascinating topics, including what happens when large companies ghost small startups during the acquisition process. He says it’s not something that makes the headlines, but it’s something that happens all too often. Read More
Episode 88
Automating the Creation of Affiliate Links with Alicia Navarro
Alicia Navarro has wanted to be an entrepreneur even before she knew the name for it. Taking a more traditional path only worked for Alicia for so long before she had to find her place in the startup world. Falling in love with building an idea from the ground up, Alicia would make several attempts before her first successful company, Skimlinks. Spending 11 years at the company, Alicia stepped aside to let someone else bring it to an exit. She shares the full story here. Read More
Episode 87
Growing Through the Pandemic, with Dr. Marcel Muenster
Today’s guest has a unique background as a doctor, entrepreneur, investor, and all around deep thinker. Dr. Marcel Muenster shares his story from being a bone-marrow carrier in med school to becoming a tech CEO. It’s often been said that being an entrepreneur is finding a solution to a problem, and that’s just what Dr. Muenster has done. He built ‘Doctor In Your Pocket’, a free online platform that connects travelers with international medical care. Growing the company through the pandemic was hard, but Dr. Muenster knew that if he could hold on, travel would come back, and people would be more concerned with their health. He was right, and that contributed to his exit from the company in March 2021. Read More
Episode 86
Entrepreneurship is a Journey with Todd Sullivan
Our guest today has had 4 successful exits to unpack with us. Todd Sullivan has learned something from every experience and knows his way around scaling a company. He’s now passionate about helping other entrepreneurs through the merger and acquisition process. Read More
Episode 85
Building to Become Sustainable with Sonny Vu
Sonny Vu is here to talk about his exit from Misfit Wearables to Fossil back in 2012. It was an acquisition that came about because Sonny was searching for brands to do collaborations with. When several of the brands that Sonny wanted to work with happened to be under the umbrella of Fossil, talks of an exit became reality. Today, he serves as CEO of AREVO and Executive Chairman of Impact Biosystems. In between, he’s had a lot of growth and success that he’ll share with listeners. From a budding entrepreneur at age 12, Sunny knows what it means to build from the ground up. Read More
Episode 84
Great Advice with Jeff Wald
Today we are talking to entrepreneur and best-selling author, Jeff Wald. Jeff has started and exited a couple businesses, both successfully and unsuccessfully. Learning valuable lessons in business and in life, Jeff keeps moving forward. With a passion for investing in startups, Jeff has helped many new entrepreneurs. He also offers wealth management advice through his latest company, Bento Engine. Read More
Episode 83
Settling and Moving on with Bowen Banbury
Today we are talking with Bowen Banbury, the CEO of Thunderbird Capital. Bowen’s first company came about after a failed real estate venture his father had made. He saw a problem and came up with a solution. A once unusable two floors of space turned into a business that exited to the tune of 8 figures. Unfortunately, Bowen’s story has a lot of turmoil involved, but he’s learned a lot from it, and is a better businessman for it. Read More
Episode 82
Creating His Own Stock Images with Tyler Williams
Today we are talking with Tyler Williams, founder of Failure Inc. With beginnings in the art world, Tyler discovered a niche that could make him a good living on the side. His coworker at his day job thought he could take it a step further and create a whole business and platform around it. Starting with just $1400, the two would create and grow a company over 9 years that would then exit for $65million. Read More
Episode 81
Data Rooms with Tien Wong
Today we are talking to Tien Wong, the CEO of Opus8, a private investment, advisory, and conference management firm. Long before that, Then was a co-founder and CEO for CyberRep, Inc., one of the 3 largest private contact center companies in North America. After 12 successful years, CyberRep was acquired by Affiliated Computer Services in 2003. Tien walks us through the process and how he treated his team of, 2300 employees right through the transition. Read More
Episode 80
Best of Both Worlds with Eli Portnoy
Today we are talking to Eli Portnoy, the co-founder, SVP, and GM of Sense360. With an entrepreneurial spirit that started in high school, Eli always knew he wanted to be a part of the startup world. He’s had two successful exits, both of which he says were great experiences. He’s here to talk about how and why he exited his companies. He’ll touch on the process of transitioning his 11-person company to a large, publicly traded company. Read More
Episode 79
Having Connections with Patrick Lee
Today we are talking to Patrick Lee, one of the founders of Rotten Tomatoes, a review website for film and television. Eager to become an entrepreneur, Patrick didn’t finish college, but instead jumped right into the startup game. It took a few tries before he helped to found a successful company. Patrick and his colleagues […] Read More
Episode 78
Disrupting the Memorabilia Industry with Michael Gallucci
Today’s guest on the Exit, presented by Flippa, is Michael Gallucci. Michael has had great success building a sports memorabilia company from the ground up, scaling it, and ultimately exiting as the global leader of sports memorabilia." Sportsmemorabilia.com had humble beginnings as a self funded startup, but through hard work and SEO tactics, they began to make waves. After their sale to Fanatics Inc, Michael began to use what he had learned to advise other budding entrepreneurs and founders. Read More
Episode 77
Always Be Prepared for an Exit with San Eng
Today's guest on the Exit, presented by Flippa, is San Eng. San is currently a Managing Partner at Skytian Capital, an International multi-strategy investment holding company. He’s also a real estate investor and crypto and blockchain enthusiast. Prior to that, he’s had some success in building and exiting businesses. He talks about everything from team building to timing. Read More
EPISODE 76
Building a Better system with Patrick Sullivan
Today on the Exit, presented by Flippa, we are talking with Patrick Sullivan, founder and CEO of Bonsai, an online platform that connects individuals seeking career and business advice. Before founding Bonsai, Patrick had some very successful exits to large companies like Google and Facebook. Today, he shares how those acquisition conversations began and how the process transpired. Read More
EPISODE 75
Failures=Lessons with Ron Jaworski
Today on The Exit Podcast, we interview the CEO of Trinity Audio, Ron Jaworski. With a long list of experience and a successful exit of $13million, Ron has some stories to tell. With his first business being in the night-life industry, Ron learned a lot about people. He took what he learned and created companies in both the media and audio industries. As someone that doesn’t shy away from using failures as learning experiences, Ron is committed to a lifetime of learning. Getting started is the hardest part, but the knowledge will always come once you do. Read More
EPISODE 74
Growing Exponentially with Luis Cambronero Perez
Today’s guest is Luis Cambronero Perez, the current head of sales at Aza Finance. He is here to share the story of his exit from Transfer Zero, a fintech startup that changed the money transfer business. He’s also a freelance Senior Sales consultant that helps companies in the financial sector, including crypto. Read More
EPISODE 73
What’s in a Name with Jeff Durso
Today we are talking with Jeff Durso, the co-founder of Blitzr, a one-on-one conversations platform. Graduating from MIT just as the internet was being created, Jeff benefited greatly from the dot-com boom. With an exit to the tune of $10million, he was just getting started. Being a part of several startups, Jeff has plenty of knowledge to share and does so through a Startup Mastermind group. Read More
EPISODE 72
Helping Entrepreneurs with Chris Heivly
Today we are talking with Chris Heivly, current Managing Director of Build The Fort, and former Co-Founder of MapQuest. Co-founding the first commercial web mapping service was Chris’s first real foray into entrepreneurship. As the Managing Director of Build The Fort, Chris helps other entrepreneurs through his books, speaking, workshops, and consulting. Read More
EPISODE 71
Disrupting the Data Storage Industry
On today’s episode of the Exit Podcast, we are talking with Chris Gladwin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ocient. Prior to that, he had multiple successful exits, including the sale of Cleversafe, a data storage and distribution company. With plenty of venture backed partners, Chris helped to raise over $100million to grow the company. Read More
EPISODE 70
Value in Technology with Chris Boudreau
Today on The Exit, presented by Flippa, we are talking with Chris Boudreau, CEO of a start-up tech Ripe Metrics, a cannabis customer experience management platform. Chris has completed exits in several areas of the cannabis industry, including delivery, logistics, and distribution. Read More
EPISODE 69
Adding Value with Ken Harlan
In this episode of The Exit, Ken Harlan reflects the different paths that led him to where he is now. As the CEO of MobileFuse, a company focused on mobile advertising, he has started and exited multiple companies over the years. He is an advocate for learning and finding new opportunities, and he’s here to inspire other entrepreneurs to do the same. Read More
EPISODE 68
Get it in Writing with Lea Ellermeier
Today we are talking with Lea Ellermeier, an entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses and has had an impressive exit with 3M. She also is the author of Finding The Exit: It’s Not Where You Start, It’s Where You Finish. Her next endeavor is to host a podcast called Don’t Freak Out Today. Read More
EPISODE 67
Angel Investing with Sanjit Singh
Today’s guest is the CEO of Adapt.io. Sanjit Singh is here to share how every exit is not the same, as he had a really cool and unique exit. He proves there are multiple ways to have a liquidity event. As a mentor to many, Sanjit has plenty of knowledge to share. Read More
EPISODE 66
$10+ Billion Exits with Dan Caruso
Dan Caruso, has had multiple $10+billion exits! Dan is the managing director of Caruso Ventures, where he specializes in investment management. From taking companies public to private, it’s all a complex process, but Dan does it all. Read More
EPISODE 65
Selling Snow Cones in a Blizzard with Paul Wasserman
Today we are talking to Paul Wasserman, co-founder of Ebates.com. After trying a few different career paths, Paul decided he was smart enough to start his own company. Tossing around ideas with his friend for months, the winning idea came to Paul while he was on a long, mind-numbing drive. That idea was Ebates.com. It had a slow start, but Paul and his investors believed in it. Read More
EPISODE 64
Investing In Yourself With Cheryl Contee Of Do Big Things
Today we’re talking to Cheryl Contee, the Chief Innovation Officer at The Impact Seat, and the co-founder of Do Big Things. While attending Yale, Cheryl was a struggling minority scholarship student that was required to do work study while enrolled. Read More
EPISODE 62
Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan with Steven Charlap
Today we are talking with Steven Charlap, co-founder and CEO of SOAP Health. Dr. Charlap hopes that using AI to gather medical information will transform how preventive medicine works. SOAP stands for the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. Before SOAP Health, Dr. Charlap successfully started, ran, and sold Health Drive. It was a company he spent 20+ years at before his heart just wasn’t in it anymore. He initially thought he wouldn’t be able to sell because of the convoluted structure of the company, but through a good CFO, clean records and a savvy investment banker, an exit was made possible. Read More
EPISODE 63
Keeping An Open Mind With Serial Entrepreneur Deanna Brown
Today we’re talking to Deanna Brown, a serial entrepreneur who has had multiple successful exits. Starting in the media business, Deanna quickly found a love for being an entrepreneur when she helped to launch the website, Epicurious. She’s been through a variety of different exits, but says a solid team has always been a strong selling point. Read More
EPISODE 61
Gracefully Sharing Knowledge With Kimberly Caccavo of Face Your Grace
Today we’re talking to Kimberly Caccavo, a founding partner of Face Your Grace, a multimedia approach to help women become entrepreneurs. Kimberly previously went through an exit with a prior guest of Flippa, Kate Nowlan. Kimberly and Kate were CEO’s of Graced By Grit, a women’s athletic apparel brand, before it was sold to Hylete. Through that experience, Kimberly learned a lot, and now she has a desire to share that knowledge with other women. Read More
EPISODE 60
From Successful Business Owner to Coaching Business Owners on Success With Diane Prince
Today we are talking to Diane Prince, a successful serial entrepreneur. Having started, scaled, and exited a handful of businesses, Diane is a wealth of knowledge. She presently uses this knowledge to coach other entrepreneurs in getting to the next step in their business. In a world full of coaches, Diane actually has the real life experience to back up her training. Read More
EPISODE 59
Making Surveys Easy, Fun, and Fast with Natasia Malaihollo
Today we are talking with Natasia Malaihollo, the founder of Wyzerr and Head of Business Development for PopCom. She started out her career as a patent attorney, where she was introduced to the world of startups. She was so inspired by the startup world that she quit her job and started her own company. Not only that, but she learned many lessons from that endeavor and took that knowledge to create her next company, Wyzerr. Read More
EPISODE 58
An Authentic Exit With Laura Coe
Today we’re talking with Laura Coe, successful author, coach, and podcast host. Laura was the co-founder and COO of a health focused company, Litholink, before it was acquired by Lab Corp. Going from a philosophy student to working for her father’s lab business is not how she saw her life going, but she says it’s been an impactful ride. Going from a company of 50 people to a company with thousands of employees was quite the culture shock for Laura, but she says she’s happy to see their technology helping so many people. Read More
EPISODE 57
Putting Employees First With Sherry Deutschmann of BrainTrust
Today we’re talking with the CEO of BrainTrust, Sherry Deutschmann. Sherry had a rough start to her working career, but never gave up. With no college education, she relied on her grit to pull herself up by the bootstraps. It took a poor work experience to inspire Sherry to start her own company that put employees first. Learn how her approach got her noticed and ultimately acquired. Read More
EPISODE 56
Learning From Your Mistakes With Coco Meers of Equilibria
Today we’re talking with the CEO and co-founder of Equilibria, Coco Meers. As a CPG marketer by trade, Coco says it was lucky that she discovered the world of startups. She’s always been focused on women’s wellness and beauty, and started out at L’Oréal in New York as a brand manager before going to work at their headquarters in Paris. She describes her job as keeping an initiative on budget, on brand, and on time. Down the road, she would discover the joy of doing those things for her own business. Read More
EPISODE 55
Filling a Need With Alexa Von Tobel of Aspired Capital
Today we’re talking with Alexa Von Tobel, the founder and managing partner at Aspired Capital. Alexa was inspired to create her first company out of a need for financial guidance when she was just starting out. She not only created a successful company but had a very successful exit 8 years later. She shares the entire process from beginning to end, sharing many knowledge nuggets along the way. Read More
EPISODE 53
Flippa raises $11m to consolidate position as #1 to buy/sell online businesses with Blake Hutchison
Blake Hutchinson, CEO of Flippa, announces $11m raised in Series A funding for Flippa led by Sydney-based venture capital firm OneVentures. In this episode of The Exit, Blake discusses how this funding will impact the growth of the company and how Flippa’s mission to help millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs find a pathway to exit will get even better. We further dive into Blake’s journey of selling his own website on Flippa to ultimately becoming the company’s CEO and how he continues to carry Flippa’s vision as the #1 marketplace to buy and sell online businesses. Read More
EPISODE 54
Selling on the Strategic Value with Mac Lackey
Today we’re talking with Mac Lackey, founder of Exit DNA, a company that helps business owners to understand the unique strategies that get results when it comes to an exit. Mac says he thinks of his life in two big pieces, with the first half being all about soccer. He says growing up, all of his goals were soccer related. He played through college and even professionally briefly. One day, he woke up and thought there was really no future in it for him, and he wondered what he would do with the rest of his life. Read More
EPISODE 52
Sharing Success with Stacy Caprio of Her.CEO
Today we’re talking with Stacy Caprio, owner of Her.CEO. Coming from an average 9-5 job in the marketing industry, Stacy always was looking for ways to branch out on her own and become her own boss with power over her earnings and schedule. She dabbled in starting a few affiliate sites which never really left the ground. It was only after reading a blog entry about buying websites on Flippa that she was inspired to buy a few of her own. Read More
EPISODE 51
The Beginnings Of Cyber Security with Ron Gula
Ron Gula is the president of Gula Tech Adventures, a company that focuses on cyber technology, cyber policy, and recruiting more people to the cyber workforce. When Ron didn’t get into flight school, he used his free time to focus on computers and started working in the early beginnings of cybersecurity in the mid 90’s. In NSA, he worked with one of the first cloud companies and created an intrusion detection system that sold in 18 months with his wife. Read More
EPISODE 50
Educating Small Business Owners with Ramon Ray
Ramon Ray is the founder of smarthustle.com, a company that inspires and educates small business owners to start and grow successful companies. Through conversations with mutual friends, Ray sold his business, SmallBizTechnology.com where he educated small business owners about the power of technology, and an event speaking business called Small Business Summit, which has attracted well-known sponsors like Dell and Microsoft. Read More
EPISODE 49
Start Stupid with Don Henig of AccrueMe
When Don was 18, his parents told him, “you don’t know what it means to run a business. Go get a civil servant job.” Regardless, he went on to start a successful financial planning company and formed the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers and National Association of Mortgage Brokers. After becoming the president of each organization, he decided to sell his businesses. Looking back, Don thinks he would have done things a bit differently. Read More
EPISODE 48
Left 12 Year Career at Google with Minnie Ingersoll
Today we’re talking with Minnie Ingersoll, a partner at TenOneTen ventures and host of the LA Venture podcast. Minnie never thought about becoming an entrepreneur, and it wasn’t until she was getting cabin fever staying home on maternity leave that she stumbled into an opportunity. She left a twelve-year career at Google to start her first company, Shift, with three others. Read More
EPISODE 47
The Art of The Deal with Joseph Fung, the founder and CEO of Uvaro
Joseph Fung is the CEO of Uvaro, a company that offers training to help people change careers and dive into the tech industry. From a young age, he watched his parents run their own business and knew he wanted to help others do the same. With extensive experience and knowledge with starting, scaling, and selling a business, Joseph has invaluable insight to share. Read More
EPISODE 46
Find Experts To Fill The Roles with Beate Chelette
From photographer to founder of Chellete Enterprises, Béate can appreciate the creativity of working behind a lens and running a company. The golden rule? Have systems and processes in place, a lucrative team, and people you can trust. In this segment, we hear from a successful business seller about her experience working with high-profile clients like Levi Strauss, BMW, and the journey to selling her company. Read More
EPISODE 45
Creating Solutions For Unmet Needs with Gaby Isturiz
For Gabby, what started off as curiosity led to innovation and problem-solving. With an acute attention to detail and a vision-driven mindset, this Venezuelan-born entrepreneur invented an electronic billing solution for law firms and founded the #1 global legal timekeeping solution, later selling the businesses to Fortune 500 companies. In this episode, we sit down with Gabby to discuss the fruition of her ideas, its scaling success, and the strategy to exit a rapidly growing business. Read More
EPISODE 44
Attracting Buyers with the co-founder of Breedlove Capital Stephanie Breedlove
Call it luck or good fortune, but Stephanie Breedlove’s story is one that illustrates how life can lead you to unexpected paths. For the talented entrepreneur, what started off as a career in corporate America led to an idea for an in-home care company called Breedlove & Associates, which was later sold to care.com. This episode dives into the mind of an inquisitive negotiator and how the acquisition process can reap many rewards. Read More
EPISODE 43
What Happens When You Can’t Sell Your Business with Mike Finger, the owner of Exit Oasis
As the CEO of Exit Oasis, Mike Finger has helped countless people sell their businesses with cutting-edge exit strategies and methodologies acquired over the years. In this episode, Mike gives us insight on the questions to ask when selling a business, the “3Ds of selling”, and the two-stepped process for a seamless exit. Read More
EPISODE 42
Decide What’s Important with Serial Entrepreneur Pokin Yeung
Today we’re talking to Pokin Yeung, a serial entrepreneur that has started and sold several businesses. Pokin had a desire to own her own business since she was a child. All it took was an employer not seeing her worth for Pokin to quit her job and start her first business. That business didn’t go quite the way Pokin intended, and so she sold and tried again. Now she has several successful businesses and exits under her belt, and she’s here to share her experiences with us. Read More
EPISODE 41
Sell, Buy Back, Sell Again with Pam Theodosakis
Imagine selling a company, buying it back, and selling it again. Pam did just that. As a co-founder, Pam and her husband created prAna, an active wear company that sells sustainable clothing for the outdoors. This podcast segment follows the journey to ultimate acquisition by Columbia Sportswear, what this process meant to the co-founder, and the mental and emotional rollercoaster of selling a company. Read More
EPISODE 40
Be Ready to Sell at a Moment’s Notice with Jeremy Bell and Josh Dittrich
Today we have two special guests with the head of M&A at Elevate Brands Jeremy Bell and Amazon entrepreneur Josh Dittrich. As a serial entrepreneur, Josh has had a hand in a lot of businesses. One such business was sold to Jeremy’s company, Elevate Brands. They’ll discuss how the business came about, how the exit came about, and all the ins and outs of the exit. Read More
EPISODE 39
How To Know When To Sell with Anu Shukla, co-founder, and Chairman of Botco
Today we’re talking with Anu Shukla, co-founder and chairman of Botco, a marketing chat solution between providers and consumers. Anu has had many successful startups and exits including from Offerpal Media, Mybuys, and Rubric. She knows how to prepare for an exit, when to prepare, and what to prepare. Read More
EPISODE 38
Solo Act to a Booming Business with Lara Morgan
Today we’re talking with Lara Morgan, investor of everything health and well-being. From selling cigarettes at boarding school to supplying 110 countries with hotel amenities, Lara had business in her blood. She would start her first company at 23, build it for seventeen years, and ultimately have a successful exit. She shares her process and what she has learned over the years. Read More
EPISODE 37
Non-Negotiables Of An Exit with Melissa Kwan
Today we’re talking to Melissa Kwan, co-founder and CEO of eWebinar, a company that takes any video and turns it into an interactive, automated webinar. Having always been in sales, Melissa found herself working in real estate right out of university. Ten years ago she found herself starting her first real estate tech company. Four years later she was starting her second real estate tech company. Listen in as she talks about a successful exit and all that led up to it. Read More
EPISODE 36
Know Your Exit Strategy with Neil Wainright
Today we’re talking to Neil Wainright, Founder and CEO of Up Habit, a personal CRM app that helps you build stronger relationships. Being on his 8th startup, he’s had many successful exits. Neil went from electrical engineer to successful entrepreneur. He shares what has helped him to start, run, and sell a business. Read More
EPISODE 35
How to Organically Sell a Business with Paulo Gomes
Today we’re talking with Paulo Gomes, a business owner in the healthcare industry. As someone who has started and sold multiple businesses, he discusses starting, operating, and selling a business. He also discusses how sometimes a partnership is the best route and why. He shares what he’s learned throughout his career and what he wishes he would’ve known earlier. Follow along in this episode and learn how to organically sell a business. Read More
EPISODE 34
How to Build An Audience Before a Product with Corbett Barr Co-founder and CEO of Fizzle
Today we’re talking with Corbett Barr, co-founder and CEO of Fizzle, a company that helps entrepreneurs to grow an audience and get paid for their work as an independent creator. Corbett’s first dive into owning a business wasn’t the best experience, but it taught him a lot. Rebounding from that with a fun business experience, Corbett created, ran, and sold a Spanish tutorial service. With his collection of experiences, he has gone on to start Fizzle, a company that gives him the life he desires. Read More
EPISODE 31
Taking Over The Television Industry with Serial Entrepreneur Jason Flick
Today we’re talking with Jason Flick, former co-founder and CEO of You.i TV. As a successful serial entrepreneur, he has a lot of knowledge to share. Going from the corporate world to his first startup, Jason found some early success. As the space evolved he had to as well, and with the iPhone transforming the space he knew he needed to be a part of it all. As the way people related to technology changed, so did Jason’s business. While looking to help apps everywhere, You.i ultimately took over the TV space and found great success. Read More
EPISODE 30
Exiting for Nine Figures with Harsh Patel Advisor to Galvanize
Today we’re talking to Harsh Patel, co-founder and CEO of MakerSquare. Harsh taught himself to code in his free time and then started his own coding boot camp with a friend. The company then went through multiple exits over the years, growing and growing. Some offers came to them and some offers were sought out. Some acquisitions were easy while others didn’t go as smoothly. Harsh has dealt with many exits, all more successful than the last, and today he shares what that looks like. Read More
EPISODE 29
Finding Premium Exit Valuations with John Warrillow of Built To Sell
Today we’re talking to John Warrilow, founder of Value Builder and author of The Art of Selling Your Business. John’s newest book teaches entrepreneurs tactics to make the most of their business sales and how to avoid predatory offers. He also wrote Built to Sell about ten years ago and had such interest in the principles described within that he started the Value Builder System to help entrepreneurs reach their desired results when it came to an exit strategy. Read More
EPISODE 28
Let’s Buy A Business with Ryan Condie
Ryan Condie has done it all. He has built, scaled, bought, and sold businesses. Through his vast experience, Ryan learned that acquiring and operating businesses is a much quicker pathway to success than starting a business from scratch. Along with host Steve McGarry, Ryan discusses how to find what business model can work best for you, what both buyers and sellers should look for when acquiring a business, and how a successful acquisition takes place. Read More
EPISODE 33
Being A Female Founder with a Passion for Grit with Kate Nowlan
Today we’re talking with Kate Nowlan, co-founder of women’s athletic apparel company Graced By Grit. Kate always had the traits of an entrepreneur, always finding ways to improve things, always with a side hustle, but she didn’t consider herself an entrepreneur until she started Grace By Grit. She goes over how the company came about, how they met the acquiring company, and how the acquisition happened. She also shares the realities of starting an e-commerce company, building a brand, and the importance of a brand. Listen in to hear how she is encouraging and helping other women to get involved in business and entrepreneurship. Read More
EPISODE 32
Four College Degrees To Entrepreneur with Theresa Fette, the co-founder and CEO of Digital Trust
Today we’re talking to Theresa Fette, the co-founder and CEO of Digital Trust, the world’s first, largest, and most secure cryptocurrency IRA platform. With beginnings as a tax attorney, Theresa has a unique perspective on buying and selling businesses. Not only has she sold a few of her own, but she’s helped many others in the sale process. Theresa’s attorney/accountant background led her to be a solid entrepreneur. She shares the lessons she learned over the years and where she’s going next. Read More
EPISODE 27
How To Sell Your Amazon FBA Business with Chris Bell of Perch
Today we speak to Chris Bell, CEO and Founder of Perch, a technology-enabled consumer products company that acquires and operates Amazon FBA businesses. Chris has dabbled in sales of office hardware and software at GE Healthcare, worked with fortune 500 companies on growth strategy at Bain & Company, and designed and built the Wayfair Delivery Network for wayfair.com. Read More
EPISODE 26
How A Great Business Card Led To Multiple Technology Forward Exits with Riana Lynn
Today we talk to Riana Lynn, Founder and CEO of Journey Foods. From her time working as a tech advisor on CNBC’s The Profit to her days as an ‘entrepreneur in residence’ at Google, to starting a juice company to running a logistics supply train transparency tool for the food industry, she has led quite an exciting career, filled with acquisitions and exits. Read More
EPISODE 25
Win, Win, Pivot? A Roller Coaster Journey as a Serial Entrepreneur with David Phillips
David Phillips successfully exited a business that had raised $120m in capital. Then he successfully exited a bootstrapped business for $18m. And then, he actually failed, forcing a pivot into his third and current business – Fondo, a company that aids startups in bookkeeping and taxes. Read More
EPISODE 24
James Camp’s $1.1m Website Flipping Strategy All Started with a Bedroom Blog Worth $36
James Camp buys and flips websites to the tune of $1.1 million in a year. From smelting down scrap gold as a teenager and writing about it on a basic blog, to strategy consulting from across the seas, James has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Read More
EPISODE 23
Sam Marks put on a Fake British Accent and Scaled his eCig Brand to a $100m Valuation
In his mid 20’s, Sam Marks put on a fake British accent and grew his eCigarette company to a $100m valuation all while living out of his car. Ultimately selling that business to a major tobacco company, Lorillard, Sam applies the lessons that he learned during those days of grinding to his two current startups, dozens of investments, and his podcast – Invest Like A Boss. Read More
EPISODE 22
Start, Scale, Sell, Repeat with Josh Dziabiak of Showclix, Zebra.com, and Gawq
Josh Dziabiak founded his first business before he even had a driver’s license. After multiple successful exits and stepping aside from his most recent business and their $100m annual run rate – insurance comparison site, Zebra.com – he’s back in the driver’s seat as the founder of his 5th startup – Gawq, a news aggregation […] Read More
EPISODE 21
Learning to Fall with Gymnast turned SheWorx Founder, Lisa Wang
Lisa Carmen Wang was an Olympic level gymnast whose lessons on the balance beam prepared her for life as a serial entrepreneur. Lisa founded SheWorx, a prominent global platform and event series empowering female entrepreneurs, which was acquired in 2019 by Republic. Read More
EPISODE 19
Acquiring eCommerce businesses with Ari Horowitz of Yardline Capital
Today we’re talking to Yardline Capital Co-Founder and CEO, Ari Horowitz. Yardline is providing a new growth capital financing solution to growing digital assets in a new world dominated by digital. Learn why and how it works. Read More
EPISODE 18
Finding the Cocktail for Success with Kit Codik
Kit had never run a media business before and he had never sold an ad in his life, but in 2009 he founded Liquor.com. The business started as a daily email and scaled to become the leading digital media platform for cocktail and spirits lovers. In 2019, the business was acquired by Dotdash (IAC). Hear the story here on The Exit. Read More
EPISODE 17
How I Fell in Love with Helping SaaS Founders Along Their Journey with Bart McDonald
The Managing Partner of Bloom Venture Partners, Bart Macdonald, sits down with Steve to give us a lesson on SaaS business and growth. He talks about everything from the sweet spots of investing in companies to buying SaaS businesses now. Read More
EPISODE 16
How to Make Amazing Exits as an Amazon Seller with Kellianne Fedio
A saying goes, “In every ending, there is always a new beginning,” In this episode of The Exit, hosted by Steve McGarry, Kellianne Fedio, the co-founder of Amazing Exits, talks through what it takes for an Amazon FBA business to make a successful exit. Read More
EPISODE 15
How I Use Awesome Content to Grow My Business with Eric Bandholz
In this episode of The Exit, founder of Beardbrand, Eric Bandholz, ruminates on how he went from growing a beard to growing a business. It may seem unbelievable, but the whole concept stemmed from what he deemed a silly job requirement earlier in his career. Read More
EPISODE 14
Growing and Selling a Startup As a Female in the Valley with Sandra Shpilberg
Sandra Shpilberg is the Founder and CEO of Adnexi, a disease intelligence platform for the next generation of biopharma treatments. Prior to this, Sandra was the Founder and CEO of Seeker Health, a breakthrough, digital patient-finding platform, which accelerates drug development and commercialization for biopharmaceutical companies. Read More
EPISODE 13
How I Went From Coffee To Caviar To Become The Largest eCommerce Investor In The World
Clearbanc’s CEO and founder, Michele Romanow, joins Flippa to share how she took risks venturing to a different path that led her to success. Now the largest digital marketplace investor in the world, Michele is rich with information on what it takes not only to grow, but to successfully exit. Read More
EPISODE 12
How My Passion For Doing Good For The Community Dictates My Entrepreneurial Adventures
CEO and founder of the GiveWith, Paul Polizzotto, joins us in this episode of The Exit and helps us explore the environmental business industry along with the biotic community. Paul focuses his business intentions on social good and has become a true leader within the industry. Read More
EPISODE 11
How I Team with Dozens of Entrepreneurs to Successfully Acquire Online Businesses
Deven is an entrepreneur and expert in investing. Oddly, he grew up dreaming of investment banking and stock markets. Eventually becoming a top mind in the business world himself, he now works with digital entrepreneurs worldwide to find them success in business growth and exits. Read More
EPISODE 10
How I Designed a Career In a Way That Fits My Lifestyle
After a career as a foreign media correspondent, Jonathan Kalan became a serial entrepreneur who turned his overflowing ideas into a network that embraces uncertainty and values human connection. Kalan created a platform for people worldwide who want to take life, work, and adventure beyond the traditional borders. Read More
EPISODE 09
How I Judge Potential When Looking To Purchase Online Businesses
Richard Patey, owner of the website investing.substack.com, talks about his experiences in website investing and how it can quickly grow your capital. Richard is a leader in the digital entrepreneurship playground and is rich with knowledge on growing, and exiting, in that exciting space. Read More
Episode 08
How I Regained a Feeling of Significance After Selling My 27-Year-Old Business
Jeff Wiener is an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies at a young age. He is also a real estate investor and best-selling author who leads talks and educates people about running businesses and investing. Learn from his story about a walk at the beach that changed his career path. Read More
Episode 07
How I learned to Maximize Valuations While Flipping Online Businesses Totaling Over $1.4 million
Marc Andre, the personal finance blogger behind Vital Dollar joins us in this episode. He discusses how he started in this industry and totaled over $1.4 million selling the sites that he developed and delights us with the tips and tricks he learned along the way. Read More
Episode 06
How I Use Data To Help Democratize the Access To Capital
Awarded Top 25 Leader in Lending, former banker and 2nd-time founder Keren Moynihan co-founded Boss Insights - a platform that provides on-demand data to financial institutions like banks, credit unions, and private lenders to bridge the need gap between them and businesses. Read More
Episode 05
How I Learned To Buy & Sell Websites
Yaro is the author of the Blog Profits Blueprint, a pioneer in the blogging and podcasting industry, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and digital nomad. Today Yaro is a coach to high-performing entrepreneurs who sell online education products. His clients have made millions of dollars across topics as diverse as treating acne, speed reading, sports betting, multiple personality disorder, personal training, cosmetic chemistry, drama lessons, color weaving and book publishing. Read More
Episode 04
Why I Say Entrepreneurship is an Activity, not an Identity
Melissa Kaufman is the founding executive director of The Garage at Northwestern and a former Googler, startup veteran, and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at consumer technology companies in Silicon Valley. She teaches up and coming entrepreneurs day in and day out. Read More
Episode 03
What I Ask When Scouting 6-7 Figure Online Business Acquisitions
Shakil co-founded SZ Ventures, an investment firm that has acquired several online stores across multiple eCommerce industries including promotional products, fitness gear, fashion accessories, bath bombs, custom apparel, and print media. His vast experience spans through acquisitions, paid digital advertising, web development, hiring overseas, product sourcing and operations. Read More
Episode 02
Why I Sold My Multi-Million Dollar Business While It Was Still Growing
Judd is a passionate entrepreneur with a visionary, innovative approach to business. In 2006 he founded Jaybird and led the wireless headphone revolution, becoming the third top premium headphone brand in the US alongside Beats and Bose; an incredible story of a bootstrapped grassroots movement that really moved people by the millions. Judd sold Jaybird to Logitech for $95M in 2016. Read More
Episode 01
How I Generate Wealth Through Unconventional Acquisitions
For today’s episode, Steve McGarry will talk to Codie Sanchez, founder of Unconventional Acquisition and a partner at Entourage Effect Capital. Codie is an incredible operator that has bought and sold businesses. She is also an expert on investing in a startup, small businesses, and cannabis. Serving as the highlight of this special episode featuring […] Read More
EPISODE 20
Katie May’s Kidspot Won Over All the Moms and Then Newscorp
Following her success as CMO at Seek, Katie founded Kidspot – a parenting advice business born from a real pain point that Katie witnessed as a new mom herself. Our conversation follows Katie’s success as Kidspot is acquired by Newscorp and Katie becomes CEO at Shipping Easy, leading yet another company towards a successful exit. Read More