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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

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Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. After college, I spent years working in software engineering and data analysis incorporate, but I was never satisfied. Thanks to Jessica L. We began by writing out a lot of words that we liked.

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