Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020. link]  —  @AustinInno On Friday, we wrapped things up racing Audi street cars at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack. Dodgeball anyone?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

This programming is guaranteed to inspire and recharge. John Jantsch (01:42): So I'll be the first to admit, when I saw the title of the book, I was like, oh yeah, a lot of companies are having to do distributed workforces and run remote today pretty clearly when we get into it, that's, you're not necessarily saying that's how to go.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

She is the founder and CEO of JAM a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play since its inception as one of the largest adult recreational sports leagues in the world. The JAM team has produced and delivered over 3500 playful corporate events, in over 30 countries since the summer of 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We sat down with Andrew Yang , current 2020 Presidential Candidate, who’s whole platform is based on reimagining the American economy with Universal Basic Income, to chat about the benefits of making this a national policy. I had never been to a handful of American Cities prior to starting Venture for America.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. Previously, she was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (“EIR”) for Dell Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Transcript of The Biggest Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’m probably the only person who has had you on to talk about that on a podcast and then back about trends in social media 2020. I think it’s just going to just go crazy in 2020. Back to Podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. This is Out of The Crisis. It's been a long 18 months, hasn't it?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

And now one of the things I found having worked for many years in the corporate settings is that it’s very easy to say, where’s the company program? In 2020 I’m going to be launching some social media assets to help people think each week about ways that they can develop themselves. We have to remember to do it.

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