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From Angel To Exit is a business podcast exploring the entrepreneurial journey of scaling a business from raising your first round of funding to exiting.
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58: From Founder Dependence to Freedom: How to Build a Business That Thrives Without You (opens the original)
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Building a valuable company isn’t simply about generating more revenue. It’s about learning from failure, protecting cash flow, creating repeatable systems, building the right team, and eventually deciding what you want your business to give you beyond money. In this episode of From Angel to Exit, Bruce Eckfeldt speaks with Kyle Ewing, chairman of Windward Equity and founder of TerraSlate, about Kyle’s evolution from entrepreneur to investor and chairman. Kyle’s entrepreneurial journey included
57: Worried About Your Exit? How to Use ESOP to Create Liquidity, Tax Benefits, and Employee Wealth (opens the original)
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What if you could take significant money off the table without immediately selling your entire company to private equity or a strategic buyer? In this episode of From Angel to Exit, Bruce Eckfeldt speaks with Larry Kaplan, Managing Director at CSG Partners, about Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and why founder-CEOs should consider them when evaluating their business exit strategy. Larry describes an ESOP as essentially a leveraged buyout of your own company. A trust is established on beha
56: Exit Planning Starts Early: Strengthen Financials and Leadership to Maximize Business Valuation - Dan Bauer (opens the original)
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What makes a business valuable to a buyer—and what decisions can quietly make an eventual exit harder? Dan Bauer brings a unique perspective to that question. After growing up in his parents’ HVAC business, building a corporate marketing career that included Bank of Hawaii, Citibank, and MasterCard, and earning his MBA from Harvard Business School, Dan made the leap into entrepreneurship. He eventually built The MBA Exchange into a global advisory company with roughly 80 advisors, multiple servi
55: Can Your Revenue Scale? Five Questions That Strengthen Your Business Exit Strategy - Rick McPartlin (opens the original)
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A potential buyer doesn’t just want to know how much revenue your company generates today. They want to understand where that revenue comes from, whether it’s repeatable, and—most importantly—how the business can generate significantly more of it after the transaction. In this episode of From Angel to Exit, Bruce Eckfeldt speaks with revenue science expert Rick McPartlin about building a revenue strategy that can support scalable growth and strengthen the story a founder tells during an exit pro
54: How Dream Water Created a New Consumer Category and Achieved a Successful Exit | David Lekach (opens the original)
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What happens when a founder ignores conventional startup advice and simply focuses on solving problems better than anyone else? David Lekach grew up immersed in entrepreneurship, learning firsthand from his family's successful retail businesses before launching ventures of his own. His entrepreneurial journey eventually led him to discover an early natural sleep aid product that inspired the creation of Dream Water—a beverage designed to become the "anti-Red Bull." Rather than chasing lofty exit
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