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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I figured since I had so much experience in starting businesses, why can’t I develop a model to help startups get all of the information they need in one location! I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. That was my aha moment!

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. When you’re marketing a startup, you don’t have a fat marketing budget.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

Both Sides of the Table

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. I have been using it like a short video blog where I’ll take a topic and put out 10-15, 10-second videos on topics like Fund Raising, Tech PR, Recruiting or just “A day in the life of a VC.”

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. So yeah, I was kind of like a curator and kind of an organizer, I guess. That might be interesting. It was more, as I said, I was just like, "Oh, I wanted to teach a lesson."