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Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact

YoungUpstarts

She is currently the CEO and co-founder of Talk Session , an online counseling platform in beta mode, that will connect users with highly credible professionals for on-demand, mobile therapy and counseling sessions using proprietary algorithm matching and artificial intelligence.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Green Dam can also be used to block politics, not just Playboy. TWTFelipe moved to Montreal, Canada.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

After months of advocating for the idea of allowing QuickBooks users to process credit card payments from their customers inside the product, we were finally given the green light to proceed but only had 12 weeks to make it happen. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Some specialize in one arena, like green technology.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. Tell us about something you love.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. Test launch tiny products. His solution?

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Seven Steps to Small Business Recovery

Steve Blank

Jordan Edelson, co-founder of Chic Sketch , reimagined his events business as a virtual events business. Alexander Osterwalder co-creator of the business model canvas , suggests a playbook of business model moves you can make: Shelter in place as a market opportunity. Then, when demand is apparent, build like crazy,” Jill says.