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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [08:58] Does your superpower have a name? [10:00] 10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? Let's go back to South Africa.

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Creative Vision and the Guts to Make it Happen – Seymour Segnit and MAGFAST are Going Big

The Startup Magazine

In a casual conversation with Segnit, he shares with us the method to his entrepreneurial ventures and how his particular brand of “crazy” is the motor that drives the success of his business. MAGFAST® describes Seymour Segnit as its “eclectic, experienced, passionate CEO.” The Background Story on MAGFAST.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. The name of our company, Sisu, means, in Finnish, persevering in the face of adversity. Little did I realize how apt of a name that would be.

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10 Diversity & Inclusion Events You Won’t Want To Miss At SXSW

Austin Startup

Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girl CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international non-profit organization with chapters in 7 US cities and Johannesburg, South Africa serving over 2000 African/African-American, Latina, and Native American girls. What’s working, and what’s not?

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic?

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

It means you actually get much lower conversion on your ad but the cost of running under Facebook Ads are also smaller. Everybody is bidding on them and the competition is higher than on other less obvious countries like South Africa, Norway, Finland, etc… Use the Pages criteria. Yes, using the Pages criteria.

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How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic? | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

It means you actually get much lower conversion on your ad but the cost of running under Facebook Ads are also smaller. Everybody is bidding on them and the competition is higher than on other less obvious countries like South Africa, Norway, Finland, etc… Use the Pages criteria. Yes, using the Pages criteria.

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