This week on the Exit: Wayne Slavitt has spent half his career as an entrepreneur, starting and running companies, and the other half as an advisor for companies. At 23 he made his debut in the M&A world: he started working as a corporate controller for five...
This week on the exit: Nathan Hirsch describes himself as a long-time entrepreneur. He started working at 15 and soon realized he didn’t enjoy responding to a boss or adhering to a schedule. During college, his entrepreneurial spirit boomed: in 2008, Nathan had an...
This week on the exit: Get the inside word from Flippa CEO, Blake Hutchison, who shares insights from the largest marketplace to buy and sell online businesses, including why Flippa is seeing huge growth in buyer registrations, what a multiple crunch means for...
This week on The Exit: Nick’s very first exit came from a personal training business he started when he was 16 years old in the late 80s. He sold that business for $3K, and that was the very beginning of Nick’s entrepreneurial journey which eventually led to his...
This week on The Exit: Born in Tehran, Iran, Bobby Yazdani left the country at age 16 during the Iranian Revolution. Jumping forward, Bobby graduated from Berkeley and started work at Oracle. Back then you had to log into the internet and the concept of internet...
This week on The Exit: When he was in college, Will Sacks and a bunch of friends raised enough money to turn their dream of a solar powered race car into a reality. The car raced from Chicago to LA, and that’s when Will realized his call was to create things. Out of...
This week on The Exit: Don McLaughlin was working as an inhouse lawyer for a consulting firm that served the Fortune 500 when he saw an opportunity to better manage electronic data. Don left to build Falcon Discovery. Entirely bootstrapped, within the first 12 months...
This week on The Exit: Sometimes timing can change everything. John Knific and his business partner started Wisr.io, a digital platform allowing colleges and universities to create private, university-branded networks for their students, in 2016. In early 2020, the...
This week on The Exit: When Heikki Haldre was at university, his brother gave him a computer and told him that it didn’t matter what he did as long as he did something. So he started a business. Living in Estonia, a newly developed country, Heikki worked with high net...
This week on The Exit: When Eddie Whittingham left the police force to become a lawyer, he never expected to eventually leave law to start his own cybersecurity business, and then sell that business to Proofpoint, one of the biggest SaaS-based cybersecurity companies...
