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. Fast-forward 20+ years, Chris has a lot of knowledge to share with others in the startup space. Technology Is The Wave Of The Future Chris has ...
Jan 31, 2022•24 min
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. His hard work would pay off when the company sold for over $1billion to IBM. His other two exits were for Cruise Technologies, a dominant developer of Wireless Thin Cl...
Jan 24, 2022•28 min
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. He’s a seasoned operator that will talk to us about everything from cannabis as an emerging market to the difficulties of operating in the cannabis space. Spotting An Emerging Market Coming out of school with a busine...
Jan 17, 2022•30 min
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. There’s Something To Learn Everywhere You Go Ken went to college, where he earned an accounting degree. After passing the CPA exam, Ken went into a...
Jan 10, 2022•29 min
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. She’s passionate about helping other entrepreneurs, as she has 20+ years of experience. Useful Creations Lea says her dad was an entrepreneur in real estate, and so she grew up seeing him run his own busi...
Jan 03, 2022•29 min
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. Sanjit entered the workforce in sales before he moved up the ranks at a very entrepreneurial Fortune500 company. Next he would go into medical device sales for Johnson & Johnson, where he found he didn’t like the large company envir...
Dec 27, 2021•24 min
Today’s guest, 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. By noticing trends early on, Dan has made some wise investments in startup companies, knows how to build one scratch, and come in and improve an existing company. He knows the value of a good team when he sees one and holds it in high regard. Dan is a...
Dec 20, 2021•27 min
What happens when you’re ready to launch a business but receive an exit offer too good to refuse? Our next guest, Paul Wasserman, did just that. After trying various career paths, Paul decided to start his own company. He tossed around ideas with his friend for months, ultimately landing on Ebates.com, a business vision that finally came to him while on a long, mind-numbing drive. Although it had a slow start, Paul and his investors believed in it. As things began to gain momentum, the business ...
Dec 13, 2021•33 min
Today we’re talking to Cheryl Contee, the CEO 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. She says the highest paying job option was in the kitchen at $17/hour, with the next highest paying job being at the help desk for $8/hour. Cheryl not only couldn’t see herself doing dishes day in and day out, but she knew taking that pay cut would allow her to learn a l...
Dec 06, 2021•30 min
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. Through an open mind approach, Deanna has been able to see great success in starting, growing, and selling businesses. Deanna says she has lots of interes...
Nov 29, 2021•31 min
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 ...
Nov 22, 2021•22 min
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. Having co-authored the book Graced By Grit: The En...
Nov 15, 2021•20 min
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. She’s here to share how she first got into business, the lessons she’s learned along the way, and how she’s been able to be a par...
Nov 08, 2021•26 min
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. Wyzerr became so popular that there were too many people using its serve...
Nov 01, 2021•27 min
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 technolog...
Oct 25, 2021•26 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and don...
Oct 18, 2021•34 min
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 busin...
Oct 11, 2021•31 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been t...
Oct 04, 2021•26 min
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...
Sep 27, 2021•29 min
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 cont...
Sep 22, 2021•34 min
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. After growing those sites enough to do it full time, Stacy ...
Sep 13, 2021•22 min
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. Although Ron thought he would continue to ...
Sep 06, 2021•27 min
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. These days Ramon gets bored pretty easily and wouldn’t be surprised to...
Aug 30, 2021•25 min
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. In this episode, we talk to the co-founder of AccrueM...
Aug 23, 2021•31 min
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. That company would go on to become an IPO through a process known as SPAC. It’s been a crazy ride and Minnie is here to sha...
Aug 16, 2021•24 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks ...
Aug 09, 2021•25 min
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. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs ...
Aug 02, 2021•25 min
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. -- The E...
Jul 25, 2021•26 min
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.
Jul 19, 2021•31 min
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 -- 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 bus...
Jul 12, 2021•23 min
