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Announcing my new venture: Purpose Group

Jeff Hilimire

Since 2013 I’ve been running a bit of an experiment, trying to build a purpose-driven (for profit) business that truly believes in business as a force for good. Dragon Army is a purpose-driven digital engagement agency, and I’m so proud of what we’ve built.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The good thing about young founders is that they don’t know what’s not possible, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #16: The importance of reference checking

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on November 13, 2013. I made very few edits to the original post, mostly in the area of readability and grammar (not in substance of content): I’m shocked that more startups, including their Boards and investors, don’t thoroughly check references. We all have them?—?no no one is perfect.

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Building An Effective Board For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. He’s also an author of a number of books including — Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Brad Feld.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on June 12, 2013. The first post was sent to me by Josh McClure, the co-founder and CEO of Real Massive, who I first referenced in my Lucky7 post about Lola Savannah. If the founder doesn’t know what the company is doing, the company won’t either. I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). 16 and 23, 2013. As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. One of my good friends, Autumn Manning, won this year and I recently did a podcast with her on company culture. where I am now a Venture Partner?—?in

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