How A Venture Capital Firm Can Influence Your Decision To Sell

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The Wise Exit

Todd Sullivan

68 episodes

2 weeks ago

The Wise Exit is an open dialogue with fellow founders and former business owners sharing real stories and offering honest advice around selling their companies to some of the top acquirers in the world. Beyond the entertaining and educational exit stories, host and M&A Advisor, Todd Sullivan is here to help demystify the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) process. For example: - How much is my business worth? - What is Net Working Capital? - When should I get a Quality of Earnings analysis - Should I hire an Investment Banker, M&A Advisor, or Business Broker? - When do I talk to my Key Employees about a possible transaction? We hope you enjoy... and learn a few things along the way! https://exitwise.com/

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How A Venture Capital Firm Can Influence Your Decision To Sell | Jean Anne Booth

The Wise Exit

35 minutes

2 years ago

How A Venture Capital Firm Can Influence Your Decision To Sell | Jean Anne Booth

EPISODE 58: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - JEAN ANNE BOOTH
In this episode, Jean Anne talks about:

Having multiple strategic investors on your cap table
Being prepared for your buyer to change the terms of your exit days before signing
Knowing what you should say no to when raising capital or selling your company

GUEST BIO:
Jean Anne Booth is a serial entrepreneur with a number of successful exits, including selling Luminary Micro to Texas Instruments in 2009 and Intrinsity to Apple in the early 2000's. Her background spans from P&L business unit management to marketing; product definition; systems, software, and applications engineering; silicon development engineering; and operations and product engineering.

Jean Anne has over 30 years of experience in high tech ventures and has raised over $100 million in venture capital for her companies. Now on her fourth tech startup, Jean Anne is building UnaliWear, a wearable “OnStar for people” watch to provide discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and to guard against wandering.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jean Anne Booth.

WHERE TO FIND JEAN ANNE BOOTH:

LinkedIn
X (formerly Twitter)

EPISODE REFERENCES AND READING MATERIAL:
Texas Instruments Acquires Luminary Micro, Expands MCU Lineup
Apple buys chipmaker Intrinsity
Mythic.ai