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Founder Interview: Jim Elliott – Volunteer to NonProfit Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

As a great example, we had a chance to interview, Jim Elliott, Founder and President of Diveheart. Five years later, in 2001, he founded Diveheart, a volunteer-driven organization focused on building confidence and independence in disabled children, adults and veterans through scuba diving. What big-picture problems does it solve?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

million—than at any point since 2001. A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. .

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital'

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. .

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