Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So when brainstorming ideas with my wife, a marketing guru, we settled on LEVEL PR because it a) echoed the company's mission statement (to level up the brand awareness of tech startups) b) reminded me of video games, which I love and c) included the name Lev, which is my son's name. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Startup DNA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I was the first operational startup partner added – having built and sold two software companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. We have had a wonderful community of peers, mentors, and we get to work with some of the best universities in the U.S. My favorite thing about Baltimore is the community and the support.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series , we caught up with Cassie Sneglar, a rising star in the world of digital entrepreneurship as well as designer, influencer (with a combined following of 800k) and mental health campaigner from South Africa, based between there, London and LA.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Non-profit’s and local community leaders need special assistance, especially in developing countries, to gain access to appropriate resources of capital devoted to their respective purposes. AGAG has its roots in the South Africa.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Started in 2015, Backstage has now invested nearly $5M into 100 startups led by underestimated founders and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Quartz. If you'll be at @sxsw , my session is on Monday, March 11th. Leave a comment below with a link.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. I had known I wanted to start my own e-commerce business but didn’t know what I wanted to sell until then. Thanks to Ryan O’Connor, One Tribe Apparel ! #11

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. Watch live video from Startup Lessons Learned on Justin.tv

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

We rely on communities of people that help us get to where we want to go. It started as this philanthropic endeavor, where it was a startup, and it was this side project. I realized this, that every story of success is really a story of community. It was standing time around a community of people. It’s a story of impact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2011

Startup Lessons Learned 2011 is just around the corner: May 23, 2011 in SF. Speakers at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 Ignite: Lean Startup If you're planning to come into town for the conference, you should really check out Ignite: Lean Startup on Saturday, May 21. Don't be late, buy your ticket now.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Drayton spreads out his social entrepreneurship expertise in other organizations as well, working as a chairman at Community Greens, Youth Venture, and Get America Working! Harrison says he regards charity: water as a for-profit startup that has no profits, saying, “We give away 100% of our profits. Muhammad Yunus.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Welcome to our fair city.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2017

After polling my community, the feedback was positive, so I made the switch and I’m very happy that I did. I soon became borderline obsessed with my startup and would stay up late into the night getting it online. It was also a concept I had never seen or heard of before. The only remaining question was would my market like it?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 23, 2015

business #startup #entrepreneur #quotes #quote. “A Business that makes nothing but money is a poor business,” said by Henry Ford is my favorite quote because it has inspired me to give back and help rebuild my local community. Below are some of those quotes sent in by entrepreneurs throughout the world. 1) The Dark.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2017

Walk With Me goes deep inside the Zen community highlighting the life and meditations of Thich Nhat Hanh in the pursuit for deeper connections with the world around us. Barbecue dives into the ritual practices performed across the world from South Africa to Sweden journeying to 12 countries to talk about the art of grilling meat.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 12, 2016

You’ll be surprised to know that we can completely rebuild the school for $15,000 (with the help of the local community as are all Room to Read projects). . 10 Literacy Instruction programmes implemented in South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. 50 teachers trained in South Africa.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2013

On StartupBus a team of strangers, traveling at 60mph, have about 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup. That’s just how we roll in the Startup Community. A ‘Startup Bus’ you say? Try telling that to the United States Border Patrol, amigo. Chicago (& Honorary Mexican) Startup Guy.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This is critical for the advance of their societies and economies, as well as for becoming productive, contributing members of the world community. How important do you consider passion for a successful startup? For example, a project I was involved with in South Africa united South African provinces with Canadian provinces.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 From all around the world, 50 diverse startups will come together to compete at the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. What is GoTech’s competitive advantage?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Now it’s a big world of impact and technology out there, so let’s start by putting terms in context: Tech for Good: companies or projects that are concessionary in nature, might make a big impact in local communities but might not make as much money as a VC would require from its investments. GITA identifies four points of activities: 1.

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