Sentences with phrase «entrepreneurs selling their companies»

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Russell Brunson has built a following of over a million entrepreneurs, sold hundreds of thousands of his books and co-founded software company ClickFunnels, which helps tens of thousands of entrepreneurs quickly get their message out to the marketplace.

The rules for equity crowdfunding, whereby an entrepreneur can raise money by selling a piece of his or her company for cash, changed in May.

For entrepreneurs interested in selling goods to bigger companies in the industry, the cluster has held approximately eight «supplier sessions,» where small businesses learn how they will need to tighten their standards to participate in the nuclear industry, Carlberg says.

Sold by San Francisco entrepreneur David Friedberg to Monsanto in 2013, the agricultural data company meshes old ideas into a new, valuable package that attracted $ 109 million in four investment rounds.

In 2011, J.D. Heilprin, a serial entrepreneur, had just sold his third company — Modern Feed, a Web TV surfing tool — and set out looking for inspiration.

Sometimes it seems that all of the media attention is directed toward serial entrepreneurs who build up a company, sell it and start all over again.

From companies like The Cheezburger Network to micro-entrepreneurs who have set up blogs and websites to sell t - shirts of their favorite felines, Internet cats and Internet entrepreneurs are a logical connection.

Eric V. Holtzclaw is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, grown, and sold multiple companies, including one of the first profitable Internet enterprises.

The question is whether all these startups are really good for the economy or do we need big companies and are these entrepreneurs who are selling out for $ 60 million or $ 90 million really doing the patriotic thing?

«We're at an inflection point,» says one self - described serial entrepreneur who launched and sold four technology companies.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

The way I understood entrepreneurship, if you started a software company that eventually sold a billion - dollars» worth of software and employed 20,000 people, you were an entrepreneur.

These startup businesses, companies selling vaporizers, CBD products, and software to marijuana users or marijuana companies, were kicked off payment processors and other mainstream business platforms en masse as a result, entrepreneurs affected by the purge say.

Jason was a dreamer from Staten Island, a struggling entrepreneur whose business (a company that licensed celebrity names for grocery products such as Olympia Dukakis» Greek Salad Dressing and Britney Spears Bubble Gum) had recently sold off its modest assets.

The founder and CEO of Los Angeles sunglasses company Perverse was by then an experienced — and successful — entrepreneur, having sold her previous company, NYX Cosmetics, to L'Oréal in 2014 for an estimated $ 400 million - plus.

«Entrepreneurs who do business in the black will never be able to sell their companies,» says Carlos Adamo, one of Santiago Bilinkis's first investors and a founder of Aconcagua Ventures, a seed investment fund in Buenos Aires.

Current securities law dictates that an entrepreneur can only equity crowdfund, or raise money from a group of people by selling portions of his or her company to individuals who meet a handful of specifications deeming them sufficiently wealthy.

«For a hundred years, we basically helped companies sell their products,» Stewart Beck told the crowd of entrepreneurs on the morning of the Toronto boot camp.

But then he's already been a successful entrepreneur two times over; most notably, he co-founded and wrote code for the company that became Twitch, which sold to Amazon in 2014 for just under $ 1 billion.

If you aspire to become a CEO, entrepreneur, or leader in your company, then you must learn how to sell to effectively get your point across.

Mike Serbinis has made a name for himself as a successful serial entrepreneur, building up and selling companies like Kobo.

For instance, while there's really only one way to start a company, there are at least three primary methods for entrepreneurs to leave the businesses they founded: selling, merging and closing.

After selling his first company, this entrepreneur founded his next company based on what business owners need most: sales help.

He has founded, built and sold 5 successful companies as an Ernst and Young, Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and and has been on the Inc. 5000 list 4 times.

Entrepreneurs should look for good partners who don't pressure companies to sell or go public, but wait until the time is right for a liquidity event when the company has matured.

Marie DeNicola, CEO and founder of Mainstream Boutique, a direct - sales company selling apparel and clothing, also featured on Entrepreneur's 2014 Franchise 500 list

Eventually, the serial entrepreneur — who had started and then sold a moving company, a plastic container business, a reusable beverage ware maker and barbecue grill business — and his team solved the bottling issue.

In addition to Internet domains, the company sells entrepreneurs various online business services, including marketing tools and bookkeeping software.

Say an entrepreneur decides to sell 40 % of his company, valued at $ 10 million, to his employees.

After Forman sold his company to Zynga (of FarmVille fame) last March for a reported $ 180 million, he found himself asking the very question that any triumphant entrepreneur might ponder after effectively cashing in: What's next?

González's company sells accessories made from discarded materials such as plastics and leftover textiles, but the exercise helped the entrepreneur realize its social impact.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

Then there's Jason Calacanis, a former entrepreneur in residence at Sequoia Capital and the founder of Weblogs, a company that he sold in late 2005.

Ehrlichmann, a serial entrepreneur who sold his first company, software maker Thriva, for $ 60 million, likes to say Porch doesn't really have any direct competitors.

Besides money, what do you offer entrepreneurs to entice them to sell their companies to you?

The founder is serial entrepreneur Marc Lore, who sold his previous venture, Quidsi (the company behind Diapers.com and Soap.com), to Amazon for $ 545 million in 2010. Jet.com has already raised $ 220 million (from heavyweights like Bain, Accel, Goldman Sachs, and Google Ventures) and boasts a $ 600 million valuation.

«We are in the very early stages of testing new ways for more people to easily discover, buy, and sell items with other people on Facebook,» a spokesperson for the Menlo Park, Calif. - based company told Entrepreneur moments ago.

Claure, a successful entrepreneur who sold his phone trading company Brightstar to SoftBank for $ 1.3 billion before taking the top job at Sprint, adds his considerable business acumen to Tidal's strong artistic lineup.

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I didn't start my company because I love to sell.

Last year, in a white paper called «The Owner's Journey,» Columbia Business School's Barbara Roberts and Murray Low found that many entrepreneurs experience a postpartum - like sadness upon selling their companies.

«Someone handed me a check that set me for life — and I was miserable,» George Jacobs told me a few years ago, referring to the $ 20 million the 50 - year - old serial entrepreneur made when he sold his company American Limousine in 1998.

The entrepreneur that was once on food stamps sold the company to Facebook for $ 19 billion — something that wouldn't have happened if he never pursued his idea because he felt there were already messaging apps available.

Gurwitch and Webb also discussed what, for many entrepreneurs, is a hugely difficult dilemma: Whether to sell equity with the goal of growing more quickly, or whether to hang on to company ownership and perhaps grow more slowly.

New legislation legalizing equity - based crowdfunding, where entrepreneurs are able to raise capital by selling a piece of their company online in exchange for cash, has passed Congress and is currently awaiting final rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission before it can be implemented.

The entrepreneur is selling fire - shooting guns with the name of his newest venture, The Boring Company, emblazoned on the side.

«I sold my last company about two and a half years ago, and 2016 is the first time I've been back at it as an entrepreneur since then.

Before today's ruling, entrepreneurs could only sell pieces of their companies to accredited investors, or those individuals who meet sufficient levels of assets and income.

The man knows people; he has held top positions at Compaq and 3Com and worked as an entrepreneur - in - residence at the Mayfield Fund before founding a software company that was later sold to Cisco.

As an entrepreneur, one of the best things you can learn to do is build a community of raving fans who will always choose your company when they need the products or services you sell.

I'm not embarrassed by being a serial entrepreneur, but I am not proud of having sold so many companies.