Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies. The issue of nonprofit diversity presents an opportunity for nonprofit board members to become more greatly connected to their communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. Community builders.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We work with like-minded partners who also want to help your businesses succeed by providing the best tools and content for the job. If our readers choose to learn more or purchase from links to our partners, sometimes we earn affiliate commissions that support Bplans’ mission. The logo design crowdsourcing process.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Kairos Fellows. “The

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

OK, I don’t know about you guys but parking in my neighborhood in Chicago is TERRIBLE. Jeremy Smith is a 24 year old entrepreneur who lives in Chicago. Jeremy and his business partner, Billy Vong, are embarking on getting this idea off the ground so, to them, we say good luck! How did you get things designed before crowdSPRING?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

It’s designed to provide capacity to nonprofits in the areas that they’re weakest. However, as we got involved in issues like clean drinking water, we realized we’re missing a big opportunity to rally communities around us. Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems. 3 specific issues: 1.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As a teenager I moved away from Texas to Chicago to put myself through school and find opportunity outside of South Texas. We are very thankful and humbled at the trust our customers, partners and employees put into the Good Dog Labs and Lighthouse brands. New England has been good to me?—?I

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2020

Importantly, ServiceMaster Restoration By Simons supports and engages in the communities they serve by giving back. We started an urban landscape design business which didn’t quite turn out the way we’d hoped, and didn’t pay very well either. The concept was novel and no one yet had brought this concept to Chicago.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Sadly, many people in our society come from communities where they were never, or rarely, touched by their parents, family members, or friends or only experience touch through sex. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15- There’s a better way. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. We got real close a couple of times to great investment partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed. It was all technical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

It’s using technological enhancements, like responsive design, better navigation, higher resolution visuals, storytelling capabilities, and many more techniques in order to attract your visitors, keep your visitors, and finally, convert your visitors. The evolved user experience is no longer the traditional model of providing information.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Long-tail keyphrases – web design ohio, seo guest posting strategies, local marketing chicago illinois, responsive wordpress theme templates (more focused and specific to target audiences). Finding the right partners within an industry is crucial. 2) Don’t write content for the search engines.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Make sure you have the right developer(s) on board in whatever capacity you need them, whether it’s a part time HTML or Wordpress developer or a full time PHP wiz.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

At the launch of the company, the core email community (people with a lot of technical understanding) was our target audience. My partner and I locked ourselves in a room for about 4 hours. I put out a call to my community to ask for their help. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. #1-

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

In the first few years after I initially started this company, we focused on logos, branding, posters, banners – anything to do with graphic designs. Back then, “Bread” was actually an abbreviation for Branding and Animation Designs – BREAD. I can also say that bread is a symbol, a bond, a value. 16- Changed from the original name.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. Thanks to Dr. Victor Allis, CEO and founding partner, Quintiq ! #4) That’s massive.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Mr. Geleerd was President and CEO of Terrapin Properties, LLC, one of Chicago’s leading real estate firms as well as one of Chicago’s largest and most active private companies. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

In my opinion, the name Synergy Design & Construction for our company since the definition of the word synergy was inspiring. Unfortunately, the construction sector has a sometimes unfavorable reputation, which I firmly believe is due to a lack of synergy between the design and construction phases of any project. 5- Inspiring word.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Register today to take advantage of our Spring sale prices. Prices increase on June 30th.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Cortese Design Bags. Debra Cortese, from Miami, Florida, discussed Cortese Design Bags , a designer of tote bags with natural designs. In 1M/1M premium, we do invest in certain companies on a revenue sharing basis and create channel partnerships with one or more of our partners. Desi Sauda.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

So today, in honor of him, I bring the crowdSPRING community EpicThrills. Partnered with elite adventure outfitters and guides around the world, EpicThrills offers its members exclusive deals on extreme adventure. Maintaining consistent communication with our suppliers has been the biggest challenge. We’re talking hiking Mt.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners ! #10-

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Your moisture-sapped skin, that is, not Chicago’s snow deficiency. For Chicago citizens, they have a shop located just off the Grand Red Line station. After working with a few local independent designers we found that it was hard to get the look we were going for. And, apparently, this year so snowless.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. Very cool concept, designed by an energy scientist, upon which J.J.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I had started my freelance business under the name of Design By Vani. When my client workload started to expand and demand increased for creative graphics and web design I decided that it was time to grow the business and hire a team to help support the incoming work. Design Spinners was decided upon. Photo Credit: Simon Sharp.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

Designed as an online “community marketplace,” BloomNation allows customers and florists to come together, giving florists a platform to sell their works of art, and consumers a vehicle to purchase beautiful flowers from local vendors, conveniently and quickly. See Also Are You and Your Business Partner on the Same Page?

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Brands that will stand-out in 2016 will leverage the power of the community and create a strong ROI based on measurable data-backed decisions. Ayelet Golz , Social media and community management specialist, Mack Web. Ayelet Golz is the Social Media & Community Management Strategist at Mack Web , a purpose-driven marketing team.

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