A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. But the answer is the co-founder’s been in the industry for 30 years and he’s somebody and so they can get meetings. Jason: Right.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced growth-stage executive joins Hologram to continue its rapid growth CHICAGO and AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —? Hologram , a global cellular platform for IoT, announced it hired Mike Georgoff this month as its first Chief Product Officer as the organization continues its growth. We’re thrilled to welcome Mike to our team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. Hiring startup engineers? WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

In a recent post , Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium), suggested that all startup advice is wrong (presumably, including his own post on this subject). I mentor other entrepreneurs informally and also through TechStars (Chicago) and Founder Institute. We are unable to run Monte Carlo simulations.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

How do I find good technical co-founders? Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Phenomenal Reddit AMA … I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – [link]. Teaching the Support team how to fish | by Mig Reyes of 37signals – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Let's get started. (00:29): This is John Jantsch. You're right.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews series , we sat down with entrepreneurs Sam Simon and Nasutsa Mabwa, the co-founders and owners of ServiceMaster By Simons. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in their company culture and helps set this husband and wife co-founder team apart as leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 So there you have it.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Entrepreneurshit.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Theres probably one in a city near you.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

We see a larger percentage of women using the services of ConVerge (The Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at North Central College) in the Chicago suburb Naperville and increasingly some in non-traditional fields including construction, warehousing, manufacturing healthcare and technology. Race/Ethnicity. # Avg # of Employees.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. Claudia: When I became a 40 Under 40 awardee of Crain’s Chicago Magazine earlier in my career, the plaque read: “it was English, not organic chemistry that dashed her hopes of becoming a physician.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And do your customer development. I remember thinking then how much better it was than Chicago, where I'd spent the previous 8 years. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Having a place that a startup calls HQ (even if the majority of employees are physically present elsewhere) is a litmus test for VCs to gauge whether a founder wants to create a small profitable business or a truly transformative one. In fact, hiring is only done when it’s out of necessity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my lovely wife was graduated from Wharton – she loves to remind me that they usually score higher in the rankings than we do).

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Having a place that a startup calls HQ (even if the majority of employees are physically present elsewhere) is a litmus test for VCs to gauge whether a founder wants to create a small profitable business or a truly transformative one. In fact, hiring is only done when it’s out of necessity.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. Entrepreneurshit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2013

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jason Fried, co-founder of 37 Signals (makers of Basecamp) and author of Remote: Office Not Required. Fried talks about developing the ability to pick up when something isn’t quite right with a staff member from the tone of email.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- Photo Credit: Devin Beverage.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2010

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

Hire the best people you can possibly find and treat them like people, not like interchangeable resources. Our developers are some of the best coders out there, but they’re also film buffs, foodies, musicians, gamers, and marathon runners. At Table XI we employ the whole person. We like that.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

We want children and adults to have fun with this and have developed some new concepts for the purpose of creating moments together. Hiring overseas virtual assistants solved the need to fill out the vacancies and accomplished the dream of operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Only I could be the founder of Randi Levin Coaching.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Before Giftly, Dan was a Booth Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dan has a B.A. It’s awesome to have you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. 8 Startup Founders Reveal Their #1 User Acquisition Tactic | Treehouse - [link]. If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO | Reid Hoffman - [link]. Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model – here’s why - [link].

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