Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

1- I credit my co-founder. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. Eric suggested LifeLaunchr, because we are not just about helping students with college, but about helping them figure out where they are going with their lives. Photo Credit: Venkates Swaminathan. It’s a much more profound.

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Up and Running

JULY 8, 2016

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. The type of person you’ll need to partner with is in extremely high demand, so even if you do find someone, it’s going to be difficult to convince them to join your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. And covered we did.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Each of them has the potential to help not just now, but in the future. "If If the world only looks for short term solutions," Alpha told me, "then you will always get pandemics over and over again." I am Eric Ries. This opportunity is so large, we can't afford to waste it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” or just retweet this one ). You know, my daughter, she’s only 2 and Member is how she says remember so it makes me think about just how you remember, but that’s not most people. There’s I don’t know, memberships. So what is it really? Jason: So selling music.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. . #1-

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I’ll explain in detail below.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2017

by Nat Greene , co-founder and current CEO of Stroud International and author of “ Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers “ Sherlock Holmes said, “I never guess. When something breaks, our frontal cortex lights up with dozens of ideas of what might be wrong and how to fix it. Need convincing?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. I really enjoyed it and asked Gene Kim, one of the authors to write a guest post on DevOps. In that moment, I saw the light. How do we know? Why Everyone Needs DevOps.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Throughout my career as an entrepreneur, I've gotten my hands dirty in every area of the business: product, marketing, support, community, success, and so on, but at 19 people, I just haven't had the time to be everywhere at all times. I have to pick and choose what I do and what I don't do.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2018

Bitcoin has a lot in common with early fiat currencies, so let’s take a second to review fiat currency and take a quick history lesson from one of its early adopters. First off, how does fiat currency get its value? So smitten with this idea, Awesome copied the idea and printed his own money. It has limited supply 2.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

So I have to start off by saying I joined up for majority of these programs because I thought it’d be a good idea to get free food, clothes, workouts etc from these new companies. I figured I could just cancel after the first free month. That’s how they get you!

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Austin Startup

MAY 26, 2019

Let me first start by getting a bit vulnerable with you: During the last 12 months, as I was ending my 20s, my life started to feel like a whirlwind. You see, I thought I had it all figured out: myself, my personality, my strengths/weaknesses. As an entrepreneur in my 20s, I became a slave to work and the grind.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2015

But did you know that great service can actually elicit a physical reaction? A recent American Express Service Study found that 63 percent of its 1,620 respondents said they felt an increased heart rate when they just thought about great service. We spend hours on hold when we just need an answer to a simple question.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I can only share with you what worked for me. If you go about passively learning then you'll get frustrated and give up as soon as it starts get tough. This article is not going to teach you how to program although there are some resources at the bottom that I used to learn, but much more on when and why to learn.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. Did you spot it? It’s this part: “I’m getting inbound from investors…” Nearly all of the inbound VC interest happening out there is from non-partner investors (i.e. Do you know how I know?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. How did the site come about? Camera phones were just happening and I saw people really liked showing off their pet photos. Photo Credit: Christopher Michel.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 28, 2016

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. I imagined she lived in Brooklyn, lived some cool life and really, really wanted her to like me, even though I was sure she’d think I was just a big nerd. So, it turned out that she did live in Brooklyn.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 28, 2016

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. I imagined she lived in Brooklyn, lived some cool life and really, really wanted her to like me, even though I was sure she’d think I was just a big nerd. So, it turned out that she did live in Brooklyn.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

So now that we have the obvious laid out, you will also learn more than you could have ever imagined about yourself and running a business along with many other small trades such as laying down laminate flooring and how to use a pressure washer. we did the renovations to the space ourselves. Learning New Skills.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ve heard it (and probably said it) so many times it’s become a cliché. The fact is, we’re so concerned with bottom lines, profit margins, and paying the bills (at work and at home!) I should know. My wife and I built our thriving business — Those Callaways — in a tough industry that’s had more than its share of challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

I point that out because one of my favorite quotes in the world (and one I often repeat) is that “life is 10% how you make it and 90% how you take it.&# It’s not a recommendation that you don’t have to put in effort to make your life better. I have another friend who’s a billionaire.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 18, 2011

I do not think it’s telling that my fourth post in this series of posts on Return Path’s core values ( kickoff post , tag cloud ) is something called People First. To be fair, it is the first value on our list, but for whatever reason, the value about Ownership was top of mind when I decided to create this series.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2018

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. I went to private school and played on club sports teams. My dad is Iranian, and I grew up thinking that was something I should be ashamed of because of the ignorant behavior I encountered. The reality?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 21, 2013

How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. Here’s how. I’d heard about other successful self-publishing endeavors, but they had always been from popular bloggers who were achieving millions in sales. These were numbers I couldn’t relate to. They both are wrong.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. If people find this useful, I’ll try to come up with more tips and write a part 2. Then when memcached broke, we could quickly switch off the duplicate queries and have time to come up with a solution. Why not just plan ahead?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

With such big, complicated subjects, we can get lost in the vast wilderness or become trapped in a silo. Consequently, we lose sight of where we are, how we are doing and which direction is true north. I have experienced these challenges on numerous occasions myself. That’s because we have to talk about tools (so many!),

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

Transcript of How Ultralearning Helps You Master New Skills written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Let’s get your definition of ultralearning since that’s the name of the book. I document some of them in my book. I saw you speaking at one of my favorite conferences in the world.

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

Recently, I took my 11 year old (Andrew) to Beijing, China for 10 days. The goal was for my son to experience more of the world and to learn how many others are not as fortunate as we are. I am breaking this up into one post per day of the trip and realize that this will be TLDR for almost everyone. Mission accomplished.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 30, 2019

A winning archer since the age of 13, Paige travels the world competing and just returned from various tournaments in France, Iowa, Montana, and Rome. Paige broke her first state record in archery at 10 years old and was hooked. How does she do it all so well? I love it! This sounds cheesy, but I never give up.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. I do believe in total transparency with your core. It’s so much scarier than most people admit – even to themselves. We just need your $500,000!!”

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 30, 2019

A winning archer since the age of 13, Paige travels the world competing and just returned from various tournaments in France, Iowa, Montana, and Rome. Paige broke her first state record in archery at 10 years old and was hooked. How does she do it all so well? I love it! This sounds cheesy, but I never give up.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. We’re so happy to have Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” with us today.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

In an interview on his blog, billionaire and founders of the Virgin companies Sir Richard Branson said the following about Steve Jobs: "I admired Steve Jobs, although he was completely different from me. He did not delegate much, and broke all the rules I believe in. And that is: what should I delegate or outsource?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!” Two-f **g-billion!

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