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For over 20 years, Miles has been helping entrepreneurs build businesses and realize value. Trained as an investment banker, he helped raise the capital that put companies like Pentech Pens, Alpine Lace Cheese, Dentax Toothbrushes, Whitney Organizers and Kryptonics Skate Wheels on the map. He joined Capital Express, a private investment fund, as a member in 1995. Capital Express helped fund the growth of companies like register.com, 800-birthdays, rave sports, and MoneyHunt, which he co-founded with Cliff Ennico. Since 2004, he has invested under the Vaux name.
Here are some of the ones worth remembering:
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Alpine Lace Cheese
Well, originally First World Cheese, but anyways, it was the pioneer in low fat cheese, and lives on today. A fond memory from my earlier financing days.
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Carewell Industries
Carewell Industries is another great story, this one about a fearless
entrepreneur and his toothbrush. Tony "the TIGER" Gelbart developed some
unique toothbrush technologies, made a WWF brush, got Hulk Hogan to say
"Brush your Teeth" after every interview, and wound up on virtually every
mass market HBA shelf, at eye level no less. Ok, perhaps I oversimplify. The
company was sold two years after funding, and Tony remains a dear friend to
this day. Smile everybody!
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Nat Nast
Very unique and sometimes vintage style men's casual clothes marketed through specialty stores throughout the US. Sisters Patty and Barbara are two terrific entrepreneurs, and everyone in Hollywood from Tony Soprano to Larry David -the SHIRT episode"-- to Charlie Sheen loves the stuff.
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Kryptonics
Krypto developed the first eurethane inliner skate wheels for Rollerblade- and then started marketing under their own brand. It was sold to HYPER to make the largest player in the space.
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MoneyHunt
Originally a marketing idea for the Private Equity Fund Capital Express, MoneyHunt became a mini-movement in the late 90's. We created a TV show that reached 230 US markets and 12 countries overseas, we hosted radio and live events in many of the same, we wrote a best seller book- MoneyHunt's 27 Rules- and generally had a blast until it was sold in 2001. The TV show runs today on many PBS stations and abroad even today.
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Imaginail
A revolutionary concept in women's nail fashion, which like all great revolutions saw its share of blood and suffering before finding its way: a business opportunity for nail salons looking for incremental revenue, and a licensing company for IP surrounding the technology.
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PenTech Pens
Perhaps the one that put me on the map. This marketer of cool pens and pencils ran from $4MM sales to over $50MM in the four years after we financed it. It was sold to a private equity group.
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REGISTER
A domain name registration business, held via Capital Express. It was simply a great experience. You can look it up.
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