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...that helps founders think about how to lead to a successful exit long term.
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...one tip for founders is from a hygiene perspective, but also just a way to make it a non emotional discussion, is preschedule once or twice a year the board meeting where you talk about exits. And that way it becomes non emotional. It's not about we'
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...we use a founders led approach. We don't use paid marketing, something like this. Previous previous, month, we got our first two customers from marketing. I'm not sure how they, how they found, found us. Some were some were, on social media, but I, t
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...a third of our exits have actually come from secondary sales. We'll sell to another fund and that's already an existing investor in the company. We are investing in private companies. Liquidity windows don't come constantly. How does that translate t
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...because if your founders will see a decline in market share before VCs can see it, before anyone can see it. You'll smell it. You'll go walk into that deal, and you'll start losing deals, but you're still growing at a 100% or 80 or 200%.
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...The founders if you own if the founders own 50% of a company and the employees, and investors own 50%, the investors, let's say, paid I'm gonna pick a number, 50,000,000 for their 50%, just to keep it nice and clean. And let's say you sell for a 100,
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They just like, the leadership who we thought were pretty great there, we dealt with the COO all the time, they just put the screws on this partnership all day long. And six months after you've exited, you go, what was going on there? And they just s
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...you founders out there that are thinking about working backwards from an exit, there are two things that I really wanna stress.
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...influencing exits. As I'm sure you're aware, I bang on about it all the time in webinars and conferences and podcasts that we've got over 30,000 businesses that are in portfolios globally worth about $3,600,000,000,000, and about half of those busine
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...Not many founders stick around long term at the company that acquired them. Are you thinking about what's next? Is there another another entrepreneurial act for you? Yes. Definitely.
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...can step away. Right? But until that structure is in place, you never know as a buyer or a seller,
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...founder, me included, who had a couple of exits before as well. I very rarely met a founder who's who's who felt it was a mistake selling their company. And I've met a lot of founders who thought it was a mistake not selling company. So, That's a bea
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“The three critical questions every business leader must answer to accelerate growth”
It's all about how do I grow faster? How do I spend less energy on the stuff that doesn't matter? How do I where are the levers? Where are the accelerators? And part of it part of that answer is comes
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want to go work in for a private equity firm and be an operator? Do I what do I wanna do? And I was talking to a friend who has been for years thinking about buying a company, and she came to me last year and said, I'm gonna do it. I've signed up for
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