How to be a CEO that scales from idea to a $100M exit

Derek Lidow, iSuppli, PR / Media Marketing, Scaling, Sell Your Business

The people you trust to find out what’s going on with products in the tech industry go to iSuppli for their market research.

I’m proud to have the founder on today. I want to find out how they’ve become such a staple for publications like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. I want to find out how they established such credibility with the media.

Derek Lidow is the Founder of iSuppli which was a market research firm which was sold in 2010 for $100M to IHS.

Derek Lidow

iSuppli

Derek Lidow is the Founder of iSuppli which was a market research firm which was sold in 2010 for $100M to IHS.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs who are often building their businesses while listening to these interviews.

If you’re like me, you probably read about tech a lot, and you probably have read a lot of the articles about how much each part of the tech you love costs, and how much the whole thing costs to put together. Well, maybe you noticed that the company that they keep referring to in those articles is called iSuppli. I see them all the time. In fact, in preparation for this interview I just looked at how many times iSuppli comes up on “Wall Street Journal” articles, and I just couldn’t even count it, it was so many times.

Here’s one, “PC Sales Go into a Tailspin from 2012.” iSuppli is the company that they use for research on that....

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