A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. 10 a month, $50 a month, whatever, and then they get the user name and password to access their membership site; Then they get access to all the content that you allow them access to based on how long they’ve been a member. Jason: Hey.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

My name is Richard Simms and, I am a Cofounder of Tech Talent South. Did you grow up thinking you’d be an entrepreneur? We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – [link].

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. But where do you start, and what are the best approaches to public relations for an entrepreneur? ” We recently featured an excerpt from her book, which offers even more great tips on networking for entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. Admittedly, many Omaha investors are still wary of early stage investments. Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

But theres no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. 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. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. My mom grew up in the States.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. A tendency towards more money but less deals could be debilitating for early-stage companies.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

See Also: 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Traveling the World. It was January, and we’d just left a freezing winter in Chicago. At the end of the hall was a sign with the name of the hostel and an arrow pointing to the last door. Finding out just how little I knew. So we were totally prepared, right?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dallas at night I would venture to say it is shared by other non-Dallas-ites, as a city whose residents consider themselves more cosmopolitan, a bit more reserved, and a cut above the rest of the Texas social scene, more in the national league of NY, LA, or Chicago. But, it wasn’t knocked out, with signs of re-emergence.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. Of course I have.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

With a starting story this incredible, I was sure that the founders would have excellent advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, and I was not disappointed. I had the pleasure of speaking with founder David Daneshgar, who shared his advice for entrepreneurs, and the story of BloomNation’s unorthodox beginnings.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

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. with Honors) in International Relations from the University of Chicago where he won numerous awards. Dan has a B.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I was blown away by my visit to Chicago’s 1871 building that has set aside 50,000 square feet for tech startups. This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally. I wish every city could have an 1871. Frankly, I wish LA had one.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the interview process during the seed stage can feel a bit more meandering to the hiring manager — who is most likely the founder(s) given the size and stage of the company. In short, you need to dig for softer things than past employer brand names or letter-of-the-law skills. Built in Chicago.).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2012

In 1775, she became the first woman to have a paper published under her name and would serve as the chief editor for the Maryland Journal in the early stages of the American Revolution. Nellie Cashman’s name should be familiar to anyone with an affinity for tales of the Wild West. Nellie Cashman. Born a slave, Sarah E.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

This is a long episode (1:20), but it’s a conversation that will resonate with a lot of early-stage startup founders. Jared: Well, the name of the company is Padseeker.com. I mean, I live in Chicago, and I’m not far from Northwestern University, which is in Evanston. Look, it’s Chicago.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

One of my particular interests is looking for women & minority entrepreneurs in which to invest. I’m looking for non-traditional entrepreneurs because I’m a fiduciary. Most VCs are quite amenable to funding entrepreneurs in Quadrants I and II. My job is to look for new opportunities and new markets.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

His name is Charlie and he responded to our question last week about whether you should stick to the plan or change it. Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. He says, “Hey guys. Great episode.

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