Gregory Shepard
12 exits | Author of The Startup Lifecycle | Helping founders from idea to exit
Gregory Shepard helps startup founders go from idea to exit
Gregory Shepard helps startup founders go from idea to exit. He created the Startup Lifecycle and Startup Architecture to show what matters now and what to do next.
He has built and exited 12 companies. The $925 million sale of eBay Enterprise received four M&A Advisor Deal of the Year awards in the national and international winner lists. Separately, eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions acquired AffiliateTraction in January 2016, and Gregory became its chief strategy officer.
He is the author of The Startup Lifecycle, a Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Specialist, and co-founder of the Fulbright Entrepreneurship Initiative, founder and CEO of StartupScience.io, and a TEDxSanDiego speaker. He was featured on MSN in "Top 10 Visionary Entrepreneurs Shaping the Future in 2026."
Resources
Board Meeting Strategy Pocket Guide
What a board meeting is actually for, and the prep beforehand that decides how it goes.
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Cap Table Dynamics Pocket Guide
The dilution math founders learn too late: what every round and grant does to who owns what.
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Decisions and Delegation Pocket Guide
Four tools for deciding what matters and who owns it, each worked through and followed by a blank.
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Exit Pocket Guide
All ten Exit gate items and a data room built rather than promised. Acquirers buy independence.
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