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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

So went back to school, got my M B A from N Y U and had a very brief stint in finance. Felt like I had to try out finance just because I had my M B A from N Y U, and that's what people from Y U did. 70% of majors went into were finance majors, and I tried it, tried it out. At the time, there were about 10,000 other companies.

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SXSW Startups: EnrichHER

Austin Startup

A finalist in the Social and Culture category , which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, EnrichHER Funding , based in Atlanta, is fueling the growth of women-led businesses by enabling women founders to secure capital in an affordable and non-dilutive way. What tech trend are you most excited about?

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Don’t Buy the Hype

A Crowded Space

This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. But that may be all that’s needed to grab a financing from investors that moved very quickly. They can create temporary growth in vanity metrics like downloads.

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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

I don’t source financing on their behalf, they generally have the reputations and the personal networks to attract capital if I just get it structured fairly. I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. Mailchimp looks like it’s going to be a huge exit down in Atlanta, but that might turn out to be a one-off. You need both.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The radio show This American Life unearthed the recipe , which had been published in 1979—down to the dram—in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As practitioners of high finance,” writes Ron Chernow in The House of Morgan, the Morgans: cultivate a discreet style. Or so it would be, if the recipe were actually secret.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The radio show This American Life unearthed the recipe , which had been published in 1979—down to the dram—in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As practitioners of high finance,” writes Ron Chernow in The House of Morgan, the Morgans: cultivate a discreet style. Or so it would be, if the recipe were actually secret.

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