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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters. Founded by interaction designer Brad Damphousse and software engineer Andrew Ballester, GoFundMe was first conceptualized back in 2008 when both were driven by personal tragedies that led to want to use their talents for good.

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. More About Jason Vandeboom: Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Visit ActiveCampaign Check out the Active Campaign Leap Year Extravaganza Like this show? 20:16] What’s on your bucket list in the next 5-10 years, outside of work? So Jason, welcome back to the show.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.