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Hosted by Elizabeth Shea · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 22 episodes
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Host Elizabeth Shea sits down with seasoned founders and CEOs who have successfully sold their companies through a strategic or financial transaction. They discuss the thinking and planning that went into their decision to sell, what worked well, what they would do differently, and the valuable lessons they would pass along to founders with a sale on the horizon. This is a podcast for business owners looking for a playbook to use in order to approach their own sale with confidence and clarity.
Elizabeth Shea hosts Branching Out: TreeFork Strategies, a business show with 22 episodes published.
Elizabeth Shea chats with Mark Mills OBE – a serial entrepreneur, exit advisor, and author of Making Your Mark – to unpack the disciplines that turn a promising business into one buyers will compete to own. Drawing on hi
Elizabeth Shea chats with Sara Evans, founder of Sara G. Evans Consulting and an industrial-organizational psychologist, to discuss one of the most overlooked aspects of selling a business: preparing yourself for life af
Elizabeth Shea chats with Hunter Jensen, founder and CEO of Barefoot Labs and author of The Killer Use Case. Hunter shares his journey from becoming a self-taught programmer to bootstrapping Barefoot Labs over two decade
Elizabeth Shea chats with Hunter Jensen, founder and CEO of Barefoot Labs and author of The Killer Use Case. Hunter shares his journey from becoming a self-taught programmer to bootstrapping Barefoot Labs over two decade
Elizabeth Shea chats with David Tobin, Managing Partner of TobinLeff LLC, about how founders can best prepare themselves and their businesses for a successful exit. Drawing on his experience as both a former agency owner
Elizabeth Shea sits down with Salman Husain, co-founder and managing director of Monument Capital Partners, to discuss the evolving M&A landscape for founder-owned government services companies. Salman shares his journey
Elizabeth Shea sits down with Sue Keith, co-founder of Ceres Talent, to share her story of building a specialized recruiting firm and navigating an unexpected path to exit. Sue discusses her unconventional career journey
Elizabeth Shea sits down with Chris Mechanic, co-founder and former CEO of Web Mechanics, to share the story of building and exiting a successful digital agency. Chris reflects on his entrepreneurial beginnings, from an
Elizabeth Shea talks with Houston Goodwin, CEO of Better Impact, about a different approach to growth: entrepreneurship through acquisition. Houston shares how he stepped into Better Impact through a private equity partn
Elizabeth Shea sits down with Wayne Schepens, founder of LaunchTech Communications, to share the story of building a cybersecurity PR firm with the goal to sell. Wayne discusses how he created an agile business and honed
Elizabeth Shea sits down with Sean Griffey, co-founder and former CEO of Industry Dive, to discuss his journey of building a bootstrapped media company and navigating two successful exits. Sean shares how he and his co-f
Elizabeth Shea sits down with John Burns, founder and managing director at Clare Advisors, a boutique M&A advisory firm specializing in marketing and advertising services agencies. John explains the advisor’s role throug
In this episode of Branching Out, Elizabeth Shea is joined by Karl Sigerist, author of Selling Your Canadian Business, a book written for founders contemplating the sale of their privately owned, lower middle market Cana
Ab Emam shares how WDG evolved from a single website project for a friend into a full-scale, midmarket agency he deliberately built for sale. He breaks down why founders should plan years before they initiate a transacti
In this episode of Branching Out, Elizabeth Shea sits down with Jim Datovech, former CEO of LKC Technologies, to explore the long road from acquiring a medical device company to refining the product and orchestrating a s
In this episode of Branching Out, Elizabeth Shea sits down with Andrew Sherman, senior partner at Brown Rudnick, for a candid look at how deals really get priced, structured, and won. Andrew explains why M&A is cyclical,
In this episode of Branching Out, Elizabeth sits down with Bess Winston, the founder of The Winston agency. She talks about how one modest media relations project-turned-campaign laid the foundation for her to meticulous
In this episode of Branching Out, Allan Klassen, former CEO and managing partner of Albi Homes, shares how he helped turn a Calgary-based luxury home builder into a “niche of one” and a strategic acquisition target which
In this episode of Branching Out, Ethan McAfee shares how he built Amify from a one-man operation in his Arlington townhouse into one of the largest Amazon agencies in the country, helping major consumer brands with thei
In this episode of Branching Out, Susan Apgood, the former CEO of News Generation, shares candid insights about her journey selling her company in April 2020 in the midst of the COVID lockdown. She opens up about navigat
Hunter Jensen
Barefoot Labs
1 appearance on this show
David Tobin
TobinLeff LLC
1 appearance on this show
Salman Husain
Monument Capital Partners
1 appearance on this show
Sue Keith
Ceres Talent
1 appearance on this show
Chris Mechanic
Web Mechanics
1 appearance on this show
Houston Goodwin
Better Impact
1 appearance on this show
Wayne Schepens
LaunchTech Communications
1 appearance on this show
Sean Griffey
Industry Dive
1 appearance on this show
John Burns
Clare Advisors
1 appearance on this show
Jim Datovech
LKC Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Sherman
Brown Rudnick
1 appearance on this show
Bess Winston
The Winston agency
1 appearance on this show
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