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Founder Friendly Capital Conference
Discover a new approach to business growth with “Founder Friendly Funds.” Connect with visionary investors and entrepreneurs at this exclusive Florida State University-sponsored event.
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When:
Two Intensive Days:
Monday, February 17, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Where:
Hyatt Regency Coral Gables
50 Alhambra Plaza
Coral Gables, FL
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Cost:
The conference registration fee is $2995 with a $100 nonrefundable application fee.
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Who:
Open to Founders of companies generating up to $5 million or more in EBITDA.
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When:
Two Intensive Days:
Monday, February 17, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Cost:
The conference registration fee is $2995 with a $100 nonrefundable application fee.
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Where:
Hyatt Regency Coral Gables
50 Alhambra Plaza
Coral Gables, FL
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Who:
Open to Founders of companies generating up to $5 million or more in EBITDA.
Join Newport LLC CEO, Kevin Poole and Newport LLC Chairman, Doug Tatum at an invitation only conference. The Founder Friendly Capital Conference (FFCC) is designed to help a business owner become more sophisticated when it comes to Private Equity (PE). After this 2-day conference, you’ll understand the financial incentives that are driving PE trends, the negotiation terms that can bend towards the owner’s favor, how to make this funding source the key to your growth and the latest trends in deal structure. This is a conference for business owners, expertly delivered by capital market and experts and founders who have been through the private equity process.
This is an invitation-only, graduate-level Executive Education Program designed by Florida State University Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship.
Applications are being accepted now and only 100 attendees will be included.
Conference Facilitators:
Lewis Schiff
Conference Facilitator
Founder of The Birthing of Giants Community
Kevin Poole
Program Facilitator
CEO
Newport, LLC
Eric Krucke
Program Facilitator
CFO Practice Leader
Aprio Advisory
A Message from Doug Tatum, Teaching Faculty in the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship at Florida State University
- Former Global Chairman of the Association for Corporate Growth and recipient of ACG’s 2nd Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing his dedication and research on the middle market business segment in the U.S. and around the world.
- Founder and Chairman of Newport, LLC. Former Chairman and CEO of Tatum CFO, the Largest Executive Services firm in the US and the firm that innovated of the fractional CFO model for emerging growth companies.
- Author of No Man's Land – Where Growing Companies Fail – recipient of four national Best Business Book awards and included in the updated edition of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten.
What does a Founder Friendly PE firm look like – what does it look like to have money on your terms? How do you know if your company is investor-friendly?
The agenda of the conference will include sessions on:
- “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Panel – What Happened & Why”
- “The Why I Did or Didn’t Do it Panel – It’s never just about the money”
- “The Curve Balls and Bad Times Panel – The use of debt in PE”
- “The Investment Banking Process Panel”
