Successful Exit Case Studies

To help put himself through college, Joe Keeley started baby-sitting, and pretty soon, he had parents calling him to see if he had recommendations for other college students who wanted to babysit. Before long, Keeley was acting as a recruiter, and College Nannies, Sitters and Tutors was born.

Tevya Finger, President and CEO of Luxury Brand Partners, wanted to start a luxury hair product company and quickly raised $6M in capital from investors to begin Oribe Hair Care.

Before they could really get their products off the ground, the 2008 economic crisis hit and $2M of their start-up capital was frozen by the bank. On top of that, Finger was also worried that no one would want to spend money on luxury beauty products during this time.