Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

The centerpiece of the pledge is the Walker Rule, which is inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the late Dan Rooney in 2003 and is now supported by his son, Art Rooney II, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the years following its implementation, the number of minorities hired to fill head-coach roles doubled.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. A Smart Bear.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I was that hired gun in some senses. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. Go check it out. Podcastbookers.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Improving the quality of hires or increasing the speed of the hiring process saves professionals time and money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. You’ll hire new people, your teams will grow and change, and everyone will need to know the ‘rules for your brand’. New employees.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. The ‘jockey,’ of course, is the founder and leadership team. His view is to hire excellent people, empower them with full accountability and then let them make all the decisions independently, encouraging them to seek input from those around them as they go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? startupcto

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. I was mostly just doing.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. Nichole MacDonald, founder of The Sash Bag secured multiple rounds of funding and advisors through the Hera Hub community.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. It got bigger by inventing new test and measurement equipment and it hired people who knew how to execute that strategy.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. And why we work with the founders we back to make sure there’s enough equity set aside to make great hires.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SocialMediaExplorer.com is owned, co-authored and edited by Jason. Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Of course, many of you know his book, Book Yourself Solid , his more recent Steal the Show , and he’s also the co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking , an organization that is really, I think, revolutionizing the training of public speakers and presenters. Now, you’ve got to hire me.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan. The biggest issue that the four founders ran into was finding a suitable name for their company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents , and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Matt shares his story and give some great insight on hiring the right employees for your company. In 2003, he founded MJS Executive Search. Leyens is currently the co-founder and President of Provendus Group, a team of business strategists who guide entrepreneurs to achieve business growth, profitability and personal freedom.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Sonia Simone Sonia Simone is the senior editor of Copyblogger and a co-founder of Copyblogger Media , a company with a suite of valued marketing and training products and more than 55,000 customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works. FIX: Hire a journalist. Joe Pulizzi Joe writes one of most popular content marketing blog s in the world. Look at the great media brands like the Wall Street Journal.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. Thanks to Victoria Wieck. #13- Photo Credit: Andrea Siy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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