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Exit Stories Season Finale: Part II With Bronto Co-Founder Chaz Felix

November 18, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
The season finale of Exit Stories is also Part II of an expansive interview with Bronto Co-Founder Chaz Felix, who built the Durham-based email marketing startup alongside Co-Founder (and GrepBeat […]
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Exit Stories: Bronto’s (Pre)historic Exit, With Guest Chaz Felix (Part I of II)

November 11, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
This week’s episode of Exit Stories features Bronto co-founder Chaz Felix, who built the Durham-based email marketing startup alongside co-founder and GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy until Bronto’s $200 million exit […]
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Exit Stories: Stop Worrying So Much About An Exit, Says Saylent’s Tyson Nargassans

November 4, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
For this week’s episode of Exit Stories, host Kevin Mosley meets Tyson Nargassans, founder of Saylent Technologies and CEO for over 15 years until the company was acquired by MeridianLink […]
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Exit Stories: How James Avery’s “Base Hit” Exits Set The Stage For Kevel

October 28, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
This week’s episode of Exit Stories features James Avery, a Triangle tech veteran who, as founder and CEO since 2010, has grown Durham’s once-tiny Adzerk into 70-person-strong Kevel. Kevel (the […]
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Exit Stories: Advice On Acquisitions With Michael Ives

October 21, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
Today’s Exit Stories guest, Michael Ives, is the CFO of medical imaging platform Intelerad. Prior to joining Intelerad, Michael served from 2012 to 2020 as CFO of lowish-profile (but high-powered […]
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Exit Stories: Stay in Your Lane, But Don’t Stay There Alone

October 14, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
This week on Exit Stories, host Kevin Mosley welcomes Paolo DiVincenzo, an ecommerce and adtech entrepreneur from ventures including Exactly, Arcametrics, and Windsor Circle. Most recently, DiVincenzo has co-founded Basis […]
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Exit Stories: From Taxes To Taprooms, Silvia Aguirre Puts Family First

October 7, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
These days, Triangle entrepreneur Silvia Aguirre has her head in the clouds—Clouds Brewing, that is, the multi-location brewery and restaurant she and partner Matthew MacNeil founded in 2015. But in […]
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Exit Stories: Know Your Value, But Don’t Be Held Back By It

September 30, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
This week’s episode of Exit Stories features Richard Holcomb, a Triangle entrepreneurial veteran who currently serves as a General Partner at the North Carolina Venture Capital Fund (NCVCF) and a […]
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Exit Stories: Why Building A Relationship With Potential Investors Matters

September 23, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
This week’s episode of Exit Stories has a twist. it features Dallas Romanowski, an author and entrepreneurial advisor through Cornerstone Business Partners who is also the Co-Founder and former CEO […]
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Exit Stories: Glen Caplan, Partner, Robinson Bradshaw

September 16, 2021 Suzannah Claire Perry
While there are more and more “do it yourself” legal tools available for non-lawyers starting new companies, there comes a point when it helps—and probably is even necessary—to bring in […]

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