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Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit ------------------- This week on The Exit: Peter Corbett, previous founder and CEO of iStrategyLabs, a digital agenc...

Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit ------------------------------------------------ This week on The Exit: Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint T...

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For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit This week on The Exit: In this episode of The Exit, MelRose Wild, CEO of Permaculture Capital and Decision Society, discusses the importance of inclusion in the C-suite, particularly for women, and highlights data showing that gender-diverse executive teams and boards outperform their less diverse counterparts across multiple financial...

This week on The Exit: Nancy Solomon, founder & CEO of WomenThink Global, shares insights from her extensive coaching career spanning over 30 years. She discusses her journey from sales to psychology, ultimately finding her calling in coaching women in male-dominated fields, particularly technology. While she offers several gems of business and life wisdom, her most emphasized takeaway is to trust...

This week on The Exit: Luke Cooper, General Partner at Latimer Ventures, discusses his journey from poverty to law school and eventually becoming a successful entrepreneur and investor. Luke recounts his first major exit with a defense contractor, followed by a challenging acquisition of an ice cream company during the 2008 financial crisis. His biggest success came with Fixt, a mobile device repa...

This week on The Exit: Jordan Dargue, investor and co-founder of Lifted Ventures, began her career in the construction industry before making her way to tech software. Throughout her experiences in various industries, a common theme she noticed was a disproportionately low number of female founders, particularly in venture-backed endeavors. With her company’s angel network and VC education, her mi...

This week on The Exit: Donald Thompson, founder and CEO of The Diversity Movement, shares insights from his numerous successful business exits, starting from his role in iCubed, which was acquired by Adobe, to leading multiple spin-outs and acquisitions. Donald recounts how his team at iCubed, post-acquisition, bought back the company, grew it, and later sold it again. This became a foundational s...

This week on The Exit: Anthony Westfall, an expert in business mergers and acquisitions, shares his insights on growth acquisitions and multiple exits. After working at Cisco during the dot-com bubble, Anthony moved to a startup, got laid off, and transitioned to the wine business. His first solo venture was an online wine startup catering to nonprofits, which didn’t scale due to the nonprofits' b...

This week on The Exit: Arijana Kaskarova always knew she wanted to run her own business, but before jumping in full-time, she made it a priority to develop the skills necessary to succeed. She went on to build three businesses, all of which she is now simultaneously running. From helping businesses set up and manage KPIs, to creating digital marketing boot camps, she’s seen where both hard and sof...

This week on The Exit: John duHadway has spent decades advising startups and growth-stage companies, guiding them to the next level and eventual exits. As someone who has exited three companies himself, he shares a few truths that he believes are crucial in getting companies successfully acquired. He emphasizes the importance of business owners surrounding themselves with strong advisors, particul...

This week on The Exit: Tina Moser has come a long way since her start in entrepreneurship, which she describes as being like jumping from a plane and building the parachute on the way down. As the owner of multiple businesses and Finance Director at Cultivate Advisors, she shares her evolution from developing financial literacy to successfully exiting her business. Tina highlights the significance...

This week on The Exit: Marguerita Cheng, founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, a financial planning and wealth management company, discusses the importance of not going on the financial journey alone. She’s worked with individuals of various backgrounds including business owners of recently exited businesses who are trying to understand the best way to manage newly acquired wealth. As a mot...

This week on The Exit: Suleman “Suli” Ali was introduced to the world of business M&A when he was just eight years old helping his father find and buy their family’s first business. However, it wasn’t until years later into his early 20s and his first job at Microsoft that he determined that corporate life was not for him and he answered his calling to a life of entrepreneurship. During this time,...

This week on The Exit: After a short stint in politics, Charlie Silver, founder and CEO of Permission.io, shares his 35-year entrepreneurial journey, which started by opening Michigan’s first Jiffy Lube store. 10 years and 17 franchises later, he sold all of his stores back to Jiffy Lube, and founded his next venture, RealAge, a health risk assessment company. After launching and scaling the busin...

This week on The Exit: John Shufeldt was an ER doctor before embarking on a decades-long career as a serial healthcare entrepreneur with three companies and a health-tech VC firm under his belt. He details the sale of his virtual medicine business, MeMD to Walmart in 2021. He recognizes that, while he happened to sell at a peak valuation, it wasn’t due to timing the market, but rather his success...

This week on The Exit: Before the days of YouTube and TikTok, James Creech was creating videos, little did he know this interest would lead him to one day launch a company focused on content creation. In 2016 when influencer marketing and the creator economy was still finding its feet, James and his partners saw a need for tracking and reporting on the impact of influencer marketing, and the oppor...

This week on The Exit: Among everything Sara Hirsh Bordo has done in her career, from being a marketing executive at Paramount Pictures and MGM Studios, the owner of several acquired businesses, and a 15x award-winning filmmaker, she might now mostly describe herself as an impact-focused creator. Through her production company, Women Rising®, which was named as one of the most “Innovative, Interes...

This week on The Exit: Matt Frary got his start in online business during the dot com era. After graduating from business school and being unable to find a job, he went on an entrepreneurial journey that would have him building and selling five different online businesses. One thing he learned about himself was how he knew when it was time to sell. In his case, he loved the building and scaling ph...

This week on The Exit: Srishti Kawatra describes her journey from founding her food distribution nonprofit while working at her corporate job in India, to being acquired by one of India’s largest food-tech companies, Zomato. She discusses how what started as a partnership inquiry turned into the offer, and what specifically made Zomato so interested in acquiring her business. She wasn’t planning t...

This week on The Exit: John Rood, author of "Beyond the Exit", shares his journey of exiting his test prep business, Next Step Test Preparation, and the challenges he faced post-exit, including uncertainty, depression, and illness. He discusses the importance of planning for your future beyond the exit, highlighting the need for entrepreneurs to envision their post-exit lives and embrace the trans...

This week on The Exit: Pallavi Golla, serial entrepreneur and mother of two young boys, walks us through her journey of building and selling her bamboo fabric baby activewear business, Lark. She details the challenges faced during the sale process, including the sudden withdrawal of a key investor in 2022, as well as how she leveraged her social media following to find three serious buyers. She em...

This week on The Exit: Ben Faw has gone through two exits, one of which closed for a $100M valuation. In this conversation, Ben discusses how he selected the business to build, his criteria for finding an M&A advisor at the beginning of the exit process, and some metrics the buyer was looking at that ultimately led to closing the deal. In regards to the timing of the sale, interestingly, Ben start...

This week on The Exit: “If you can’t make a sale, you have no business…but with sales comes rejection.” David Perez is a seasoned entrepreneur who has sold two companies, generated millions from Fortune100 customers, and has served as an advisor for founders and businesses. Through the rollercoaster ride of his business journey, one constant that he believes led to his success is in becoming comfo...