Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Invites - Successful Exits: Maximizing Value

Successful Exits: Maximizing Value

10/26/22 • 22 min

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Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Invites

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In this episode our host, Philip Guarino, is joined by Rob Follows. Rob’s passion for helping entrepreneurs and family run businesses maximize their venture’s exit led him to found STS Capital Partners, where he has been involved with over 1000 venture deals. By pulling from his experience on both sides of a negotiation, Rob shares what he wishes he had known as an entrepreneur during his first exit, and the value of finding an advisor who aligns with your company values.

Philip and Rob discuss the key differences between financial and strategic buyers, and the perseverance needed to build a venture from the ground up. Tune in to this episode to learn how to successfully value your venture, and optimize your exit strategy. And keep an out for HAE’s four-part series on exit strategy, featuring Rob Fellows and the STS Team.

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Rob Follows’, Founder and CEO of STS Capital Partners, passion is to help entrepreneurial business owners achieve successful Exits and support the creation of billions of dollars in philanthropic capital. STS = Success to Significance through Selling to StrategicsTM. He has been involved in or led over a thousand M&A transactions, with a total transaction value of over $100B. He has held various roles with YPO, including Founding Chapter Chair; former Chair of the Global Deal Network; Founding Chair of the Executive Committee of the Social Enterprise Networks; and, as a YPO Best of the Best Premier Speaker: ‘Everyone has their own Everest, what is yours?’

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A Metaverse for your Business?

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In this episode our host, Denise Silber is joined by Cecilia Tham, a Harvard Design School alumna, who is an entrepreneur, prize-winning futurist, metaverse designer and hands-on person, all rolled into one! Together they discuss how web 3.0 and phygital environments are revolutionizing product creation and re-inventing retail. This episode even answers the question: “Why would anyone buy a virtual product?”

An entrepreneur herself, Cecilia emphasizes the need to “Start small, think big, and move fast” to take your startup to the next level. From programming and selling a self-sustaining plant to creating a high-end shopping experience in an empty store with blank white walls, Cecilia leads us through new scenarios for sustainability and creativity across all industries and price points. Is it time to start piloting a metaverse for your business? Tune in and find out how!

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Cecilia Tham, a Barcelona-based alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, engineers futures, by working at the intersection of science, design, strategy and impact. With decades of experience in innovation, Cecilia Tham collaborates with companies and organizations to provide Futures-as-a-Service via her current role as the founder and director of Futurity Systems, with the goal of building better futures faster.

Previously a Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica, Europe’s first moonshot factory, Cecilia Tham is a serial entrepreneur, having founded multiple companies including Makers of Barcelona, FabCafe and allWomen.tech. She serves as advisor to UN World Food Program X, SXSW, National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as well as other private companies. We are proud to note that Cecilia Tham has has been named top 100 Women of the Future and Top 40 Futurists in Spain, among other accolades.

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Thriving to 100: Expanding Life's Possibilities

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People are living longer. Almost half of those born today will live to 100. But what does this mean for our future economy? And how does this impact the way we approach our careers and relationships? Thought-leader, writer, and entrepreneur, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, joins our host, Philip Guarino, to answer these questions and more.

Together, in this episode, they break down the new “Four Quarters” of life, and discuss the benefits of starting a new career at 50... and what to think about at 25! Avivah pulls from both her personal experience and her research findings to explain the opportunities brought to companies by the “longevity economy”: from untapped market potential in older demographics, to the growing pool of eligible hires. As an expert in the industry, Avivah is putting pressure on old norms and redefining what it means to be in your prime.

Tune in, and find out how to rethink the framework of your career and beyond!

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, a global consulting firm working with companies interested in capturing the competitive advantage of gender, nationality and generational balance. Her thought leadership is accessible through books, regular contributions to Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and TEDx talks. Her book, Why Women Mean Business, was awarded the Manpower Best Book of the Year Prize, and she has been recognized by ELLE Magazine as one of the Top 40 Women Leading Change. Recently she has been a Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, exploring the social and business impact of our ever longer lives.