article thumbnail

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Let's get started. (00:29):

article thumbnail

Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. That summer, this bumpkin/badass former governor from Vermont running for president (Howard Dean) had found this guy Joe Trippi to run his presidential campaign. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

Vermont 165
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

It’s a lot like investing in the stock market — once everyone else starts jumping on the bandwagon, you’ve missed the window. I was thrilled that what I did employed 50,000 people and did business in every state but Vermont, with international operations in China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico.

Cofounder 154
article thumbnail

Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

George Arison is the founder of Shift , a platform to bring convenience and trust to the used car market. He also co-founded Taxi Magic and formerly held a product manager position at Google. I was the co-founder of a company that would eventually lead to an industry cliché. government plan.

article thumbnail

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., » More. Loading… Business.

article thumbnail

How To Identify & Improve Crappy UX Issues

ConversionXL

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but according to recent research done by CEB Marketing , this might just be the case. What’s even more frightening, is how highly marketers (that is you and me) think of themselves. Turns out, the marketers were wrong. Less than ? We really do ruin everything. How well they targeted traffic.

article thumbnail

Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. According to the American Water Works Association, nearly 1/3 of all American households may struggle to pay for water.

Bolivia 120