Entrepreneur Story: From Bankruptcy to Multimillion Dollar Exit

Session Overview:

• How to start a business directly after graduation and never get a job
• how to survive bankruptcy and failure
• how to reinvent yourself
• how to raise money for and scale a tech company
• the M&A Process
• how to find purpose after an exit

Rob Hunter has been an entrepreneur ever since he was a kid. He had an eBay account by the time he was 12 years old, and he sold Japanese professional wrestling VHS tapes and DVDs (yep!) to pay his way through university at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

It did so well, that he was able to establish a mini-student real estate empire. After graduation, he sold his properties and got into the ice cream business, opening & Marble Slab ice cream stores by the time he was 25 years old. He had lots of tremendous highs and lows as a multi-unit franchisee and learned a lot of lessons along the way.

In 2012, he was offered a great scholarship to do his MBA at the #1 school in the world for entrepreneurship, Babson College. Since moving to Boston, he's met a co-founder, and a wife, and immersed himself in the technology startup culture of the city.

Over several years, he built and eventually sold HigherMe, an HR Tech solution for the restaurant industry. He also tried to solve the US student debt crisis with Reset Button/ Lexria. He is now focused on investing in real estate, startups, and small businesses, and spending as much time as he can with his kids, Maise (5) and Trevor.

Host or Publisher Western Entrepreneurship