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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Being from Israel – population of 8M – means no sizeable market on the home front. Next: A one-woman PR team. My first foray into PR was a bit naive.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

Both Sides of the Table

I have been using it like a short video blog where I’ll take a topic and put out 10-15, 10-second videos on topics like Fund Raising, Tech PR, Recruiting or just “A day in the life of a VC.” Here you’ll see the professional and curated content. It could be one photo/video or 20 in a row.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. So yeah, I was kind of like a curator and kind of an organizer, I guess. That might be interesting. It was more, as I said, I was just like, "Oh, I wanted to teach a lesson."