Playing Hard to Get to Get the Deal Done with Robbie Hardy

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Exit: From selling her own company to mentoring other women entrepreneurs. This episode of the exit is a full circle entrepreneurial story from starting a business, building it into a successful company, to exiting and becoming an investor helping other women grow their businesses. Robbie tells how timing is everything, she was in the right place at the right time and a connection saw the potential of the company. Robbie continued to build the company and negotiate an exit at the same time. She knew the leverage she had and worked it to her advantage to get the best deal she could. Now as an angel investor, Robbie looks to empower other women to help them achieve their goals. Listen to find out what advice Robbie has for other founders and entrepreneurs looking to grow and exit. Robbie Hardy is a "mentor capitalist" who knows how to navigate through the maze of the entrepreneurial journey and she wants to help other entrepreneurs do it too. Robbie Hardy is an experienced investor and entrepreneur with extensive startup and board experience. She’s climbed the corporate ladder, developed corporate strategies for Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a strategic consultant with the Kauffman Foundation. She started and grew companies of her own and cultivated her passion as a CEO and business owner. Robbie is the Founder of xElle Ventures, an Angel fund for women investors investing in female founders. She has developed entrepreneurial programs and written two books on women-led career and life books. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiehardy/ Website: www.robbiehardy.com For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit -- 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/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip Up the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses
0:05.9	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side Advisory with its market leading valuation tool,
0:14.2	Deal Room, Off Market Offering, Market Insights,
0:17.3	an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine.
0:20.7	Now for the exit.
0:21.9	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:24.4	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:27.6	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
0:31.5	how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world
0:34.8	of exits.
0:35.8	It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many.
0:39.9	On this episode of the exit I sit down with Robbie Hardy.
0:43.6	She's a fantastic entrepreneur, an investor, a mentor, and author.
0:49.5	And we walked through her whole journey from exiting her company and really just everything that happened after the fact with
0:57.6	negotiations and the team being taken care of and talking about how everything from the beginning of the conversation at a
1:06.6	trade show all the way through the exit and her mentoring other women entrepreneurs and becoming an investor.
1:15.0	And this is a unique conversation because not only has Robbie done both sides where she's been an operator going through the exit and also becoming an investor on the other side.
1:26.5	She's really a very fantastic entrepreneur and example as a powerful woman in business.
1:35.6	She talks about mentoring women
1:37.8	to really just get out there
1:40.8	and start conversations and networking.
1:43.7	And we talk a little bit about tactical ways that women can get more involved.
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