The Exit - Presented By Flippa

This week our host Steve McGarry is joined by Patrice Barber, Current CEO and Founder of Career CNX. To start the show Patrice talks about how at an early age she had to constantly adapt to new cultures after living in 7 countries throughout her childhood, and how that led her to being able to adapt in the world of business. As someone who has exited multiple businesses she dives into some of the...

This week on The Exit: Why is it so hard for female entrepreneurs to raise capital for their business ventures? This is what Nicole Yearing found herself asking. After climbing the corporate ladder, Nicole realized her call was to find the answer to that question. The answer came by starting Ms. Tech. After years leading the company, she decided to exit it. But when you exit a community, not just...

This week on The Exit: Journey through music AI with Hazel Savage, ex CEO and CO-Founder at Musiio. When Hazel got gifted a guitar at 13, she knew her life would be filled with music. Little did she know, she would go on to found one of the most sought after businesses in music AI — Musiio. When the business was just four years old, Soundcloud approached Hazel with two questions: can you work with...

This week on The Exit: the story of a revolutionary startup. Picture this: it's 1999 and you desperately want to buy a pair of shoes, so you go to the mall. But you can’t find the colour you want in any shop. What would you do next? If you are Nick Swinmurn, you decide to launch an online startup connecting people with shoes - Zappos.com. The business boomed, and was soon known worldwide for its u...

This week on The Exit: Meet Estelle Lloyd, drawn to improve things, and find solutions from a young age. That same desire drove her to start her first business, a renewable energy data research company, which shifted into cyber security, before an exit. If she could go back in time, Estelle would do one thing differently in the exit process. Listen to find out what that is. LinkedIn - https://www....

This week on The Exit: If you are a fan of Negronis and Espresso Martinis, you will thoroughly enjoy this episode! Frankie’s passion for perfectly crafted cocktails pushed her to fill a gap in the industry, and create premium cocktails mixers in bottles. But to exit her business with a bang, she needed to take it to the next level. Listen to find out what Frankie did and how she sold for big dolla...

This week on the Exit: meet Jon Carson. He is a multi-exit education entrepreneur, with 30 years of experience starting, scaling and exiting businesses. With four multi-million exits under his belt — from a beer keg delivery service in college to a consulting firm, all the way to exiting the largest education website on the internet in the nineties — Jon has plenty to teach us all. Listen to get i...

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Ryan Frankel. Ryan is the exited founder of “Verbalize It”, and the Current Founder and CEO of “This App Saves Lives”. Ryan talks about his experience getting sick while traveling and how being unable to communicate with the medical personnel there led him to the idea of developing the translation app, Verbalize It. The two also sit down and discuss...

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Eleonora Rocca, the Founder of WomenX Impact and Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for Horizone Group. The two start the show talking about her background in entrepreneurialism, and how creating a blog was at the beginning of it all. They talk about what it was like for her event brand Digital Innovation Days to grow at the rate that it did, and...

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Derek Jouppi, the Exited Co-Founder of the startup “Suncayr”. Where Derek and his team were able to develop a sunscreen that can tell you when it's time to re-apply. The startup came out of a group project in college where Derek and his group of close friends took the project to a full blown start-up and company. The two dive deep into what the conve...

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Nick Telson to talk about his entrepreneurial journey. They touch on some of his current projects like Trumpet and Horseplay Venture, but the conversation focuses on his exit from one of his previous companies, DesignMyNight. They discuss the details on how he was able to step back and prepare for the exit, and the more traditional path they took in...

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 w...

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...

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. Entrepreneurial Wealth Joe was one of 9 kids growing up, and his dad worked as an engineer for John Deere. From an early age he was taught, if he...

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 hap...

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 asi...

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 tha...

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. No Aspirations To Be An Entrepreneur Graduating with his BA from Yale, Todd didn’t have aspirations to be an entrepreneur. In fact, he wan...

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 Biosyste...

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...

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...

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 $65m...

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...

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 compa...

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 rode the wave through a market collapse before ultimately selling for abov...