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.
One of the things that I have found, having I'd say I talked to about 10-15 students over the last year or two that have come to me, one of the things that is absolutely critical and fundamental and a huge orange flag, if not red flag, is people who are just too in love with their idea. It's obviou...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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