The guy who sold a company for $56M explains the secret of raising money – with Seth Goldstein

Seth Goldstein, Crossfader, Mobile Apps, Sell Your Business

In 2002, Seth Goldstein founded Majestic Research. About 8 years later, he sold it for $56 million.

That’s one of many companies he launched and helped grow, including:

Stickybits, which enabled people to attach digital media to real-world objects using barcodes that smart phones could use.

Turntable.fm, which allowed people to listen to music together and his latest, DJZ, a new media company focused on Electronic Dance Music and DJ Culture.

We’re going to find out how he did it and about his book, The Secret of Raising Money.

Seth Goldstein

Crossfader

Seth is co-founder and CEO of DJZ, an electronic music company whose app Crossfader makes it easy for anybody to mix great music.

 

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. And home of, almost at this point, 1,000 interviews with successful entrepreneurs, who have spent, each of them, about an hour with me, telling the stories of how they built their companies, their challenges, their successes and all that. Just so you can learn from them, build your own company, and hopefully, you’ll come back here and do an interview yourself.

Today, I’ve got an entrepreneur, who, in 2002, founded Majestic Research, and about eight years later, he sold it for $56 million dollars. His name is Seth Goldstein, and that is one of many companies that he launched and grew, including Stickybits, Turntable FM, and his latest, which is called DJZ, a new media company focused on electronic dance music and DJ culture.

I want to ask him about how he built all those companies. How he raised money for them, how he built the...

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