Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

from South Africa, and battling breast cancer, I became overwhelmingly humbled by the toughness, the tenacity of my experience. The title 10Fold was a unanimous choice – as it suggests that we offer 10 times the value, and the word fold, reminds people of the old PR goal of getting news above the fold. 22-Hired a trademark coach.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The “official dignitary” tour of Silicon Valley is like taking the jungle cruise at Disneyland and saying you’ve been to Africa. From Santa Clara to South San Francisco it’s 45 miles of one bedroom community after another. It has no large monuments, magnificent buildings or ancient heritage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone. or Amazon , your choice). :) Thank you.

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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. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

On one hand, he’s a tech innovator and entrepreneur whose creativity has earned him awards and accolades on two continents – Europe (Sweden, to be more exact) and Africa (eastern, and in countries like Nairobi, his native Somalia and Mauritius). Has the situation with the country’s tech startup community improved since then or not?

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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. Thanks to Scott Rosenblum, LEVEL PR ! #2-

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

And of course, supporting the your local community and local economy really is something worth doing. Have you heard about these Uber awkward PR blunders? These PR blunders are good reminders of the mistakes you want to avoid making as a business, regardless of your size. Mall for Africa. I couldn’t resist the pun.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A great example of the is last year’s (PRODUCT)RED campaign, a major marketing effort, the goal of which was to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. This strategy has come to be known as Cause Marketing , and it typically describes how a business engages with a not-for-profit organization to the benefit of both.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of all the sports leagues they seem to have built the strongest global brand with players coming from Africa, all over Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, etc. The company gifted all unsuccessful PR interview candidates, their unreleased $300 product – the Luna Device. Thanks to Sophie Bowman, Brand Branding PR LLC ! #11-

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The first is Sapphire Club – a membership based online club that offers a wide variety of resources and a community of like-minded people. I was born in South Africa and emigrated with my parents and younger brother, firstly to Ireland, then to Australia, arriving here when I was 14. She also has two mentoring programs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the process of establishing my corporate identity already had a logo in mind but as it was a cultural symbol (from West Africa), I was uncomfortable using it as it was and needed it re-interpreted. I may also have tried to generate more PR around my launch. This is the essence of semiotics. Biscuit, gran?

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This chart above is from a new World Economic Forum report, Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact , predicts 21 dates in the future when previously unimaginable innovations will enter our daily lives, transforming the way we live and the way communities and governments function. This is true for a few reasons.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2016

My former colleague, AlfonZo Rachel reached out, and hired me to be his PR representative. He was confident I had the skills and abilities, as I had been doing PR for myself and friends for years, it was a huge part of working in the entertainment industry. This led me to starting my own Public Relations Firm!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.

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