The Selling Your Business for More Telesummit becomes available now. Here are a few sound clips to give you a sneak peak at the value of this telesummit.
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Topic: “Adventures in Serial Entrepreneurship: What Builds Value and How to Capitalize on it”
Faculty: Jeff Hoffman, Former CEO Enable Holdings and Priceline.com
Jeff Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator in the fields of Internet, e-commerce, and media/entertainment. Having launched his first software company while still a student at Yale University, Hoffman has founded and grown a series of successful startup companies in his career, raising independent financing for his ventures and guiding his companies to both acquisitions and public offerings.
Jeff currently serves as the CEO of Enable Holdings, Inc., one the world’s leading excess inventory solutions companies. Enable Holdings operates such online sites as uBid.com and RedTag.com, and specializes in the liquidation of excess inventory from major brand name manufacturers and retailers, including Sony, HP, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, and more. The company has sold over $2 billion worth of computers, consumer electronics, jewelry, apparel, collectibles, and other products, and is currently expanding globally.
Jeff’s first startup was a software company in the travel industry named CTI, a company that quickly became the industry leader in technology for the travel and tourism industry, and was later acquired by American Express. For his achievements, Jeff was named one of the industry’s 25 Most Influential Executives. Hoffman was also a founder of early e-commerce pioneer Virtual Shopping, Inc., which developed patented, proprietary software and hardware for online retailing on the Internet, and was later acquired by Europe’s Wallenberg Group.
More recently, Jeff was a founder and CEO in the Priceline.com family of companies, where Jeff held two CEO titles and led the development and launch of Priceline’s consumer company. Hoffman also served as an executive in Walker Digital, the parent company of Priceline and one of the country’s most innovative creators of intellectual property and new business models.
After Priceline, Jeff was a founding partner as well as Chairman and CEO of Black Sky Entertainment, an independent production company in the film and music industries. Hoffman’s firm successfully produced such independent films as CABIN FEVER (a horror film made for $1.4 million that has grossed over $100 million worldwide), as well as working in the music industry, producing musical tours and concerts including such recording artists as Elton John, Boyz II Men, Britney Spears and others.
Jeff dedicates a significant portion of his time to mentoring other entrepreneurs, having served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech, as well as being a Coach and Mentor in the Kaufman Institute’s FastTrac Entrepreneur’s program. Hoffman is also Chairman of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, a non-profit organization serving to bring sports and sports leagues to disabled children all across the country.
Jeff Hoffman is an accomplished professional and motivational speaker, featuring topics such as branding, innovation, and business leadership. Jeff has spoken at conferences and symposiums in over 40 different countries.
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