Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. Up until January 31, I was running the nonprofit that I founded called Code for America, for ten years. Digital Response.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. I’m Marty, the Co-Founder of REIZE.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

04:33] Why the decision to focus on talent from Latin America? [06:50] He's a co-founder and chairman of Work Better Now, which provides talent from Latin America for US based businesses. So number one, there's great talent in Latin America. Questions I ask Rob Levin: [01:03] How was WorkBetterNow founded? [02:48]

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they Joe Lonsdale.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. So, for the latest episode of Greymatter, I sat down with my friend, Blitzscaling co-author, and fellow game geek Chris Yeh to take a deep dive into the details of how games have shaped my personality and career.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. As I outline in my new book, The Innovation Blind Spot , meritocracy in America today is a myth. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They can either be texted by name (this is brilliant if you don’t want to give people your mobile number but want to text with them) or you can give them a number to text. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. If you’re interested the rest of the management team is listed here.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

I miss the rest of the family. the school is an old factory that is a labor of love of the founder and principal. it’s about 600 years old, which i piont out to andew is much older than america. the school is an old factory that is a labor of love of the founder and principal. We are far away. we unpack and eat.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2018

And it is all about the need for all of us in America to lean into entrepreneurship and really be in the arena. My Henry Crown Fellowship Class (the 19th class) is named Dare, Greatly. I also gave one to John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, at the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit this week. It isn’t easy.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone. Paul Bragiel, founder of I/O Ventures launched the Savannah Fund to invest in East african startups.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Thank you to Alton McDowell, Frank Medrano, Ben Halliday and the rest of the J.P. Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph. Austin is a CPG powerhouse and the rest of the world doesn’t seem to know it yet. ExxonMobil. The message?—?Austin

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” Go on Google and put in your name, your business’ name, and see what’s coming up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2024

How To Build A Successful Online Community written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Andrew Guttormsen the Co-founder of Circle : the All-in-one community platform for professional creators and world-class brands.

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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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 22, 2019

The city’s most inspiring food arrives individually packaged and labelled (name, dietary restrictions, etc) with a sticker to show you it hasn’t been tampered with. How did you come up with your business name? They tell us how much or little office catering they want to plan and order—and we do the rest. Be an expert.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2023

Siri is also a life coach, keynote speaker, and the Founder of two non-profit organizations. For every book sold, $2 is donated to Feeding America and the rest of the profits go to Siri’s non-profit Believe Ranch and Rescue. A dollar of every book goes to Feeding America. Like this show? Tony is gonna match that.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. Only In America. America was built by those who left the old behind. It’s what makes us great.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jamie is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. My guest today is Jamie Jay he's the founder and managing director of bottleneck distant assistance, a business he founded in 2016. Jamie Jay (10:17): You know, I was in corporate America for about 12 years. Marketing Podcast with Jamie Jay.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Second, I went on to raise roughly $5 million in angel investments from 100 individuals who did listen to, understand, and value my experience as a black founder and CEO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the article where they say, you know, burn the boats and the, and destroy the cooking pots, and that obviously that makes people say, I have no choice but to win h how can I take that co that concept and appropriate it for peacetime activity? 12:59): And he was a founder, an amazing guy. I just would love to it. How do I value it?

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I’m sure its customers wonder, “Why is an organic grocer named RydeOn?”. Then, that board member(s) can persuade the rest of the board that this is the right thing to happen. The company was named FieldLink at that point; very few people know that name was ever part of PayPal. Or, “Are we taking new risks?”

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. Only In America. America was built by those who left the old behind. It’s what makes us great.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. No one funded us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Of course, many of you know his book, Book Yourself Solid , his more recent Steal the Show , and he’s also the co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking , an organization that is really, I think, revolutionizing the training of public speakers and presenters. Bank of America … Well, so I’ll start with Apple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Putnam "In Loving Memory of Virgin America" The Score Takes Care of Itself , Bill Walsh John Wooden The Grand Tour "If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going -- Winston Churchill" Transcript, Out of the Crisis #8: Brian Chesky, part 2 Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis. What do you want them to do differently as a result of the pandemic?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. And frankly, I think it’s such a unique strength of America for the past decades, if not a century.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. And frankly, I think it’s such a unique strength of America for the past decades, if not a century.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

America is worse than it was before and, probably, worse in a semi-permanent way. and British governments have forced much of the rest of the world to create a more transparent financial system in which bad actors are more likely to be reported to authorities. Adam, respond to this question with something encouraging! But the U.S.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

A strong brand starts with a good business name and logo , but a strong brand is more than just the name and logo. The Brandless founders recognized that even a $3 price tag isn’t affordable for everyone, and so they built a social mission directly into their core business model.

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