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Mark Miller Discusses Challenges of Funding Startups

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  • Date Added : 4/15/2011
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Mark Miller

  • Founder, Mark Millers, LLC
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1963 (Age: 61 years old)
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
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Biography

Mark Miller has a twenty-year track record with expertise in business strategy, business development, fund raising, and middle-market M&A. Miller's area of focus includes the full spectrum of the higher education marketplace: educational, custom and on-demand publishing, and publishing technology, new media and online communities. Miller's greatest strengths include his faith in a long-developed gut instinct; his ability to connect with Boards and other C-level executives, helping them through the complexities and ups and downs of the M&A process; and his drive to get deals to the goal line.

Miller has been a serial entrepreneur since winning Cornell University's Johnson School Business Plan Competition for TakeNote. Miller founded and has served as president and executive chairman of a number of outsourced service and technology companies. Miller was founder and CEO of TakeNote; The Custom Publishing Group; NetPaper; PowerProse; The Daily Jolt; and CollegiateLink. Miller is currently the founder and CEO of markmillers LLC, a middle-market M&A advisory services company. Miller served as the sole advisor on the sale of Xplana Learning to MBS Textbooks/Barnes & Noble College Stores. Miller has provided consulting services and served on boards of for-profits and non-profit companies, including O'Reilly Media, Harvard Business School Publishing, Tizra, Course Advisor, Textbook Revolution and Freeload Press.

My first business was funded by a Chinese food delivery service. That paid for starting our business. We didn't have a lot of overhead. That is why it's easier to start your business when you're younger, before you have mortgages, kids, and other things, but you also have a lot more experience wh...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 5 Mark Miller Shares Personal Background And Company Information
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
  • 4/15/2011
  • Mark Miller
  • 4 min. 0 sec.
Video 2 of 5 Mark Miller Shares Discusses Expectations in an Entrepreneurial Environment
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
  • 4/15/2011
  • Mark Miller
  • 1 min. 28 sec.
Video 3 of 5 Mark Miller States Entrepreneurs Need To Be Careful About Being Too Much In Love With An Idea
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
  • 4/15/2011
  • Mark Miller
  • 1 min. 7 sec.
Video 4 of 5 Mark Miller Discusses Experiences With Online Learning And Education
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
  • 4/15/2011
  • Mark Miller
  • 2 min. 1 sec.
Video 5 of 5 Mark Miller Discusses Challenges of Funding Startups
  • Mark Miller - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Managing Your Career: Lessons from Entrepreneurs
  • 4/15/2011
  • Mark Miller
  • 1 min. 23 sec.

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