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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

Take for example, New Jersey chocolate makers Chocomize. My last question for Hunter was, “Say I’m a software startup founder, and I’m the only person in my company. ” His answer, “I’m a big fan of the lean startup methodology[.]

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? People who need a fast signature only need to upload the document and then sign and send it.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 14:06) Jen gives a New Jersey local government example of how the USDR works and how the organization is working at "The speed of need." (16:54) It just gives you a sense of it, we're working with a team in New Jersey. She served as the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I mean, number one, having a co-founder who has always held that space of look, we've got each other's back, and that has been absolutely key.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? Fred Ehrsam , his co-founder, is also incredible.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah. You're usually your own worst critic.