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This week on The Exit: John duHadway has spent decades advising startups and growth-stage companies, guiding them to the next level and eventual exits. As someone who has exited three companies himself, he shares a few truths that he believes are crucial in getting companies successfully acquired.

He emphasizes the importance of business owners surrounding themselves with strong advisors, particularly those who have experience in bringing companies through the same journey.

He also discusses being transparent with the team throughout the process, giving them ownership in the company’s future, and making sure they are supported during the transition to new ownership.

While he believes it’s important to keep the exit in mind as part of building a company, it should not be the primary focus. The north star for business owners should, instead, be to build value, and an exit should be something that comes about as a result of achieving that primary objective.

For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the full episode of The Exit.



John duHadway spent 35 years working for world-class organizations such as Deloitte, First Franklin Financial Corporation and Ownit Mortgage Solutions before founding and launching duHadway, LLC to provide consultative services to early stage and small businesses. duHadway, provides fractional C-Suite (CEO, COO and CFO) services and consultative services to coach leaders and organizations on how to unlock their highest level of performance and to bring their organizations to the next level.

John has successfully sold and exited three companies with valuations as high as $2.5 billion. As a consultant, his firm works with and collaborates with the top accounting, legal and private equity firms bringing their mutual clients to the next level.


LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnduhadway/

duHadway LLC Website - https://www.duhadwayllc.com/

X (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/duhadway



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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

This week on The Exit: Tina Moser has come a long way since her start in entrepreneurship, which she describes as being like jumping from a plane and building the parachute on the way down.

As the owner of multiple businesses and Finance Director at Cultivate Advisors, she shares her evolution from developing financial literacy to successfully exiting her business.

Tina highlights the significance of understanding financial health beyond profit and loss statements, urging entrepreneurs to focus on future projections and cash flow management.

Regarding building a team, she stresses the need for leadership development and hiring strategies that prioritize the quality of new hires over immediacy.

Reflecting on her past, Tina advises her younger self to embrace spending strategically and prioritize ROI analysis.

For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.



Tina Moser is the Strategic Finance Director at Cultivate Advisors, where she specializes in making big goals a reality with solid, financially savvy steps. During Tina’s time as a business owner, she ensured that her financials were dialed in to show the company's true profit. When Tina became an advisor, she helped her clients look honestly at their finances to identify wasted potential. Through Tina’s guidance, her clients have become more profitable, others also have successfully exited their businesses, and all reached the work-life balance they have been striving to achieve. Tina also started a podcast called Women Choosing Growth. The purpose of the podcast is to help give support, guidance and actionable advice to women entrepreneurs and leaders.


Cultivate Advisors - https://cultivateadvisors.com/

Women Choosing Growth Podcast: https://womenchoosinggrowth.com/


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenchoosinggrowth/



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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

This week on The Exit: Marguerita Cheng, founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, a financial planning and wealth management company, discusses the importance of not going on the financial journey alone.

She’s worked with individuals of various backgrounds including business owners of recently exited businesses who are trying to understand the best way to manage newly acquired wealth.

As a mother and a business owner herself, she is particularly motivated to help other women entrepreneurs, especially when it comes to gaining access to capital for business building and growth.

Perhaps most importantly, she emphasizes that financial success does not need to come at the expense of self-care and that you can (and should) have both. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of guidance to get there.

For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.


Marguerita Cheng is the Chief Executive Officer at Blue Ocean Global Wealth. Prior to founding Blue Ocean Global Wealth, Marguerita was a financial advisor at Ameriprise Financial and an analyst/editor at Towa Securities in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP), a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor® (CRPC), a Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP) and a Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC®). As a Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) Ambassador, Marguerita helps educate the public, policy makers, and media about the benefits of competent, ethical financial planning. Marguerita’s mantra is “So many people spend their health to gain wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health” (A.J. Reb Materi).”


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margueritacheng/

Website: https://margueritacheng.com/



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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

This week on The Exit: Suleman “Suli” Ali was introduced to the world of business M&A when he was just eight years old helping his father find and buy their family’s first business.

However, it wasn’t until years later into his early 20s and his first job at Microsoft that he determined that corporate life was not for him and he answered his calling to a life of entrepreneurship.

During this time, the Facebook app marketplace was in its early stages and he went all in on becoming a leader in the Facebook app space.

He and his team would go on to build and exit two mobile gaming businesses, Esgut (acquired by SGN) and then TinyCo (acquired by Jam City).

Two exits and decades of experience later in building both bootstrapped and VC-backed businesses, he emphasizes the importance of building businesses that will continue to perform through increased competition and marketing costs.

Through it all, he hopes business owners will do what he wishes he did for himself: to enjoy the journey as you’re building and growing the business, and not just at the exit.

For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.


Suli Ali is a serial investor and entrepreneur who has started and sold 2 startups with Esgut being acquired by SGN, and TinyCo being acquired by Jam City. Suli has been an angel investor in over 100 startups and LP in 25+ venture capital funds. Through Ali Capital, along with his brother Moiz, Suli has a passion for investing with founders who see a future that few others can see.


LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sulemanali

Website: https://www.ali-capital.co/

X (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/sulemanali


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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

This week on The Exit: After a short stint in politics, Charlie Silver, founder and CEO of Permission.io, shares his 35-year entrepreneurial journey, which started by opening Michigan’s first Jiffy Lube store.

10 years and 17 franchises later, he sold all of his stores back to Jiffy Lube, and founded his next venture, RealAge, a health risk assessment company.

After launching and scaling the business to $30M in revenue, he decided it was the right time to sell, and exited the business to Hearst Corporation.

Through it all, Charlie reflects on the importance of conviction in entrepreneurship but balanced with understanding the risk of each endeavor, and that a previous success does not guarantee the next.

Now, with Permission.io, Charlie aims to empower individuals by allowing them to control and monetize their data in a privacy-centric internet landscape.

For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.


Charlie Silver is a start-up business expert who has built several enterprises from the ground up to successful exit. Charlie understands that each business has its own unique DNA and that there is no formula for business success other than a deep commitment to reality and reason, and a dogged pursuit of obtaining and retaining customers. Charlie's current project is Permission.io. Permission has created ASK to serve as the digital reward for individuals to share their data and engage with brands.


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliehsilver/

Website: https://search.permission.io/


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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

This week on The Exit: John Shufeldt was an ER doctor before embarking on a decades-long career as a serial healthcare entrepreneur with three companies and a health-tech VC firm under his belt.

He details the sale of his virtual medicine business, MeMD to Walmart in 2021.

He recognizes that, while he happened to sell at a peak valuation, it wasn’t due to timing the market, but rather his success came in selling the company while there was still a “blue ocean” of growth opportunity ahead, and a compelling story of year-over-year historic growth.

When selling to large buyers like those of Walmart, he emphasizes how important it is to have your numbers in order, and how much easier it is to build this into your business operations early, rather than retroactively trying to clean up finances when an offer is at your doorstep.

For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.



John Shufeldt has more than three decades of healthcare entrepreneurship. In 1993, John founded NextCare, Inc., which expanded under his leadership from one to 60 clinics across six states, generating nearly $100 million in revenue. In 2010, after his tenure as NextCare’s CEO, John launched MeMD, LLC, connecting over 500 medical professionals to patients virtually. Walmart acquired MeMD in 2021. John created Tribal Health in 2015, addressing healthcare needs in Indigenous territories. The organization now employs over 450 providers across 35 Native American healthcare facilities. In 2021, he founded Xcellerant Ventures, a VC firm focused on investing in health-tech startups.


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-shufeldt/

Website: https://www.johnshufeldtmd.com/

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xcellerantventures/

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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/