How to Determine When a Business is Ripe for Investment

About the Episode

If you’ve been thinking about growing your business through a capital injection that may include working with a private equity firm or being acquired by another company, how do you know if your company is actually worthy of investment? Positive cash flow and consistent year-over-year sales growth may not be all that is needed to lure the right investors or buyers. On this edition of “Deal Talk” we’ll find out what an experienced serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist has to say about the companies he’s helped turn around and lead in the past. Join us as Jeff Allen speaks with Dan Tamkin, currently the Corporate Developer and CTO at Transdev.

Meet Our Guest

Dan Tamkin

Dan Tamkin

Founder / CEO of Unified Dispatch

Dan Tamkin is the Founder / CEO of Unified Dispatch which we sold to Veolia Transdev in 2011. He now represents Veolia Transdev for prospective investments and partnerships and is most interested in transportation start-ups.

One of Dan’s achievement was when he bought a bankrupt venture backed startup at low valuation. He then focused the company; expanded into adjacent verticals and created new product lines. As a result, he sold company for 32X return to large public company and exited at 3 times the sales in an industry that typically gets 1.3 times.

Skills:

  • Turnaround Management
  • VoIP Telecommunications
  • Telephony
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software Development
  • Transportation
  • Travel Technology

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