The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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 a business, what is it the one thing you care about the most? Listen to find out. Nicole is a Strategic Consultant and Fractional CMO who has led Ms.Tech (acquired 2021) a company focused on seeing more women start and scale technology companies, as the founder since 2014. She now invests her time advising and guiding the next generation of startup companies. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleyeary/ Twitter - @Nicoleyeary - https://twitter.com/nicoleyeary Twitter - @MsTechGroup - https://twitter.com/MsTechGroup Links for Ms. Tech - https://linktr.ee/MsTechClub The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ Her Future Event - https://flippa.com/events/her-future/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 over 250 million songs? And do you want to sell? Listen to learn about her exit and how she ended up as the VP of Music Intelligence at Soundcould. Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and CEO/Co-Founder at Musiio. She started her music-tech journey as an early employee at Shazam and spent time understanding the pain points of the industry at Pandora, Universal and HMV before launching Musiio in 2018. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/musiio/ Twitter - @Musiio - https://twitter.com/Musiio Website - https://www.musiio.com/ The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 unique company culture and customer service. Then it was acquired by Amazon for a stellar amount. But not before Nick decided to exit... find out the full story now. Nick Swinmurn is the current CEO of Hellebore Broadcasting Company where they are leveraging storytelling and emerging technology to create a web3 universe and empower new business opportunities. Nick also has a new podcast called Coasthawk Talk, where he interviews some of the world's most interesting athletes and entrepreneurs about their lives and business ventures. Check the links below to listen now! LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/swinmurn/ Twitter - @Coasthawk - https://twitter.com/coasthawk Website - https://hellebore.xyz/ Nick Swinmurn’s Coasthawk Talk Podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tfkHZvJPW8N9xdTz2RWnI iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coasthawk-talk/id1630484012 The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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.linkedin.com/in/estellelloyd/ Website - https://www.macademia.com/ The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 dollars to Diageo. Frankie has over a decade of experience working as a cocktail mixologist, journalist and presenter. She launched the world's first “cocktail case” after spotting the gap in the home cocktail market, and she strategically pivoted into grocery and bars with her bottled cocktail mixers before the business was acquired by Diageo. LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/frankie-snobel-7a850415 Website - https://www.frankiesnobel.com/ Instagram - @Frankie_snobel - https://www.instagram.com/frankie_snobel/ The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 inspired for your next exit. Jons’ current company, College Guidance Network, is a digital media company focused on building a comprehensive live, interactive, and on-demand content platform that delivers virtual college and career guidance that is intimate, interactive, and scalable (MasterClass for College and Career Guidance). LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-carson-19230/ Website - https://www.collegeguidancenetwork.com/ Website - https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/biddingforgood.action The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 some of the details and the steps that Ryan took before the company was purchased by Smartling in 2016. Steve asks Ryan about the right time to sell a business, and Ryan talks about where he is at today with his current company. Ryans’ current company, This App Saves Lives, focuses on putting a serious dent in distracted driving by rewarding individuals who choose not to use their phones while driving. Drivers are rewarded by major brands with incentives while driving undistracted. “This App Saves Lives” is a mobile application that was founded after Ryan was severely injured while cycling and being struck by a distracted driver. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanvfrankel/ Twitter - @Rvfrankel - https://twitter.com/rvfrankel Website - https://www.thisappsaveslives.com/ About Me - https://about.me/ryanfrankel The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 how the initial conversation about exiting began. Eleonora talks about the importance of really knowing your numbers in and out, and the details about your business that you may not always concern yourself with but might be very valuable to those interested. Eleonora Rocca founded the annual Digital Innovation Days Event (Former Mashable Social Media Day) in Milan in 2014, which is now one of the largest Italian events about Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Innovation Topics. Eleonora is also the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for Horizone Group, which is a marketing company that provides strategic counsel on their clients’ marketing and brand strategies. Instagram @Eleonora__rocca - https://www.instagram.com/eleonora__rocca/ Instagram @Womenximpact - https://www.instagram.com/womenximpact/ Website - https://www.womenximpact.com/en/ Website - https://www.horizone.group/ The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 conversation leading up to the exit was like, and what they are currently doing afterwards. Derek is currently focusing on special projects at Entrepreneur First in Toronto where they encourage and help support entrepreneurs while they build their idea and company. They select individuals that they recognize to have huge founder potential, from all walks of life, and bring them together to find their co-founders. Entrepreneur First creates the ideal environment for entrepreneurs to trial partnerships, and test ideas at a rapid pace. They cover your living costs while you do so, and give you access to a global network of founders, advisors and investors. - Website - Entrepreneur First Toronto - https://bit.ly/3OU84QB - Dereks’ Board Game Project - www.blackoot.com - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-jouppi/ - The Exit Meetups - https://flippa.com/the-exit-meetups/ -- 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 world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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 order to set up the sale. Nick Telson is a London-based entrepreneur, angel investor, podcaster, startup mentor and public speaker, whose speciality lies in talking no-nonsense founder/investor advice and help. Nick is currently the Co-Founder of Trumpet, and Co-Founder and Angel Investor in Horseplay Ventures. 

 

 - Website - https://www.sendtrumpet.com/ 
- Website - https://linktr.ee/Nick.telson
 - Website - https://www.designmynight.com/ 
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicktelson/

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