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Guest post by Neely Burks. Founder, President of SourceYourCity SourceYourCity better connects reporters with expert sources for local news stories. As a member of the inaugural 2010 class of Jumpstart Foundry, SourceYourCity was chosen in the month of August. From there, we secured tech talent to build out our minimally viable product in preparation for a January 2011 beta…
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The Jumpstart Podcast is back and we’re looking for more great guests. Please leave a comment with a suggestion of who you would like to hear interviewed on the show. If you wish to be a guest, please contact dave at jumpstartfoundry.com. It’s going to be an amazing new season!  You may recall that we spoke with…
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Stanford Graduate School of Business presents Robert Scoble about the role of social media in marketing. If you don’t know Robert Scoble you should. He is not only an early adopter, he is among the very first digital content producers (he’s also a great guy!). Watch this presentation where he speaks about his days with…
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Needless to say, applying to Jumpstart Foundry is a crucial part of getting accepted into the 2012 program. Early applicants are in an even better position, because of the perks that come along with it. Jumpstart For A Day On February 22, we will invite all of the 2012 applicants for Jumpstart Foundry to a…
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Guest post by Jumpstart Foundry alumni Steven Buhrman, CEO & Founder of Wannado. January of last year I had a vision. At first it was just a stream of ideas in my head. But then I started to believe in it. I believed enough to pack up everything I owned, move across the country, and start…
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This is a series of blog posts, where we link to interviews with entrepreneurs that we highly recommend you read, watch or listen to. We encourage you to leave a comment with your notes, takeaways and questions, so that others can learn too.  Howard Schultz This week we selected Harvard Business Review’s “We Had to…
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Guest post by Jumpstart Foundry alumni and mentor, Salil Shibad, cofounder of Urge. Dad, Employee, Entrepreneur To be a real entrepreneur, the words in the title need to be in a different order. But, since the first one is non-negotiable for those of us with families, it comes down to the other two. How then do you…
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This is a series of blog posts, where we link to interviews with entrepreneurs that we highly recommend you read, watch or listen to. We encourage you to leave a comment with your notes, takeaways and questions, so that others can learn too. Richard Branson This week we selected a 15 Small Business Lessons from…
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Jumpstart Foundry 2012 is now accepting applications. This will be our third year of pushing start-up companies to achieve greatness. It is not a program for the weak or lazy. Launching a company is a significant achievement that only succeeds when a small group of incredibly smart people commit to one another to go to…
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Jumpstart podcast episode 20:  David Hooper Download MP3 David Hooper is founder of musicmarketing.com MusicMarketing.com began as a music marketing site, but evolved into a syndicated radio show Music Business Radio (WRLT), print books, audio books, seminars, home study courses, and other content David loves getting into the minds of different audiences they look for…
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