Robert Lee Goodman

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA is CEO and Chief Dragon Slayer at both Start Up Company University and Ceo Resource LLC, a worldwide consulting company focused solely on start up and emerging companies.

During the past 15 years, Ceo Resource has already helped, on a 1:1 basis, nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs and start up CEOs in over three dozen countries on six of the seven continents. After completing his MBA, Robert Lee Goodman successfully started four dozen of his own companies, raising $25 million from investors and venture capital firms. Some of these included:

• A $100 million real estate investment company with a diverse portfolio – buying apartment complexes, office buildings, office warehouses and mini warehouses.
• An asset management company subsidiary overseeing 45,000 rental units.
• He built one of his companies into the seventh largest self storage operation in the nation.
• A software company with products on the shelves of 5,000 retail outlets nationwide. He wrote the first program, for real estate investment analysis, staffed the company with about 50 great folks, and ended up taking the company public with a reverse merger into a public shell.
• A financial services company buying defaulted loans from the FDIC and RTC for five cents on the dollar after the debacle caused by the Tax Reform Act back in 1986.
• An NASD broker dealer company, raising $25 million from angel investors and VC for my own companies.

He is also the author and creator of Funding Foreplay: A four module audio training course that is designed to teach start up company CEOs - how to properly prepare and present the dozen documents they must have to successfully romance and seduce angel investors and VC to invest in their company.

His background also includes a Master of Business Administration, Presidential & Key Executive Program, degree from Pepperdine University and a BS degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Tennessee.