When a manager at a consumer goods facility doubted Pokin’s ability to grow within the company, she used this as motivation to start several businesses in the website and app industries. Yeung has notably won the Amazon’s Music Education App award for her music learning app and has sold her online businesses successfully. In this episode of The Exit, Pokin discusses the process of selling and transitioning her businesses to its next phase, her love for entrepreneurship from a young age, and how ...
Jul 05, 2021•22 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have...
Jun 28, 2021•25 min
How do you know when to sell? For Jeremy, acquiring Josh’s Amazon FBA store was an easy decision that took two months of due diligence. For Josh, understanding the potential growth of his business made his decision to sell to Elevate Brands worth it. If you ever wondered when to take that leap of faith to sell your business, this podcast segment of The Exit will answer some of those burning questions. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have ...
Jun 21, 2021•29 min
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. She’s involved in many projects including Elevate, a team that invests and mentors underserved start-up companies and helps them scale.
Jun 14, 2021•25 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it....
Jun 04, 2021•25 min
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. One of those companies was...
May 27, 2021•22 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a busines...
May 21, 2021•24 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks...
May 13, 2021•25 min
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. ...
May 05, 2021•26 min
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 im...
Apr 28, 2021•29 min
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. -...
Apr 19, 2021•24 min
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 t...
Apr 12, 2021•22 min
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. -- The Exit ...
Apr 03, 2021•31 min
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. Today he shares many examples of s...
Mar 27, 2021•32 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-min...
Mar 19, 2021•24 min
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. His experience led him to found Perch, where he acquires high-quality Amazon products and brands with the help of an impressi...
Mar 11, 2021•31 min
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. Working with specific metrics and cutting-edge tools and technologies, Riana has been able to stay at the forefront of the food industry and...
Mar 03, 2021•22 min
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. After this roller coaster ride, and as an angel investor in 25+ startups, David knows what it means to start, scale, and sell a company. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert ent...
Feb 26, 2021•30 min
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. James built up a successful strategy consulting firm and was lucky enough to sell to the right buyer at the right time. Stepping off the rollercoaster that is being an entrepreneur from time to time, James always gets back on. It’s all about knowing w...
Feb 18, 2021•32 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exi...
Feb 10, 2021•36 min
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 app. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and so...
Feb 02, 2021•30 min
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. She now serves as the host of 2 podcasts, including the Confident Investor. Lisa has inspired female entrepreneurs the world over and shares her unique story with us on The Exit. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcas...
Jan 25, 2021•27 min
In this episode, we meet serial entrepreneur Katie May. 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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and do...
Jan 19, 2021•30 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a ...
Jan 09, 2021•27 min
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 cocktails and spirits lovers. In 2019, the business was acquired by Dotdash (IAC). Hear the story here on The Exit. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and s...
Jan 01, 2021•41 min
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 the Amazing Exits, talks through what it takes for an Amazon FBA business to make a successful exit. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get expo...
Dec 14, 2020•26 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get ex...
Dec 09, 2020•36 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought an...
Dec 03, 2020•31 min
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 to grow and exit. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on https://flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/
Nov 23, 2020•18 min
CEO and founder of the GiveWith, Paul Polizzotto, joins us today in order to explore environmental businesses along with the biotic community. Paul focuses his business intentions on social good and has become a leader within the industry. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on https://flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/
Nov 09, 2020•30 min
