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Jumpstart Episode 26: Joe Galante Joe Galante, President of Galante Entertainment Galante worked for a record company for almost 40 years, decided he wanted to do it on his own he works around the entertainment and digital space adviser at FloThinkery invested in Artist’s Growth in 2010 he became restless and bored in corporate life…
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Jumpstart Episode 25: Gavin Ivester Gavin Ivester, Partner at Flo Thinkery Flo Thinkery build strategies for companies. They are a group of people who want to do cool stuff with smart people, or smart stuff with cool people. Either way is a win! Founded by Mark Montgomery (interview) 5 core people at Flo + 20 –…
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Jumpstart Episode 24: Kristopher Lange   Kristopher Lange: Chief Fool at Book Fool – online book seller Book Fool’s mission is to help students with best buy back prices for text books Kris began by buying used text books, he then partnered with local book stores inspired by his mother, who started an apron museum in…
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Jumpstart Episode 23: Corey Cleek   Corey Cleek Co-founder and CEO at Uloop He is also a mentor with Jumpstart Foundry Uloop is features online classifieds for students Launched in 2007 UC Santa Barbara Now serves over 1,500 different universities and colleges Began by focusing on housing and jobs, buying and selling text books Free…
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Jumpstart Episode 22:  Michael Brody-Waite   InQuicker is a service to wait at home for hospital visits via your web browser and make doctor appointments online. You spend less time waiting in the waiting room. You spend less time waiting at the hospital or doctor’s office Entrepreneurship began in the womb for Michael. He tried to…
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Jumpstart Episode 21:  Joseph Jaffe Founder and Partner at Evol8tion  Founded Crayon interactive marketing firm in 2006 and sold in 2009 Wrote books: Flip the Funnel. Join the Conversation. Life after the 30-second spot. Started madisonandmountainview.com Evol8tion connects early stage startups with blue chip brands They believe the number one thing right now is to think about innovation holistically from…
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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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Jumpstart Episode 20:  David Hooper 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 the hungry customers…
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Jumpstart Episode 19:  Jason Moore Jason Moore is Founder and CEO Stratasan Stratasan provides advanced data analytics around healthcare and other market data such as demographics and psychographics had their soft launch in Fall 2010, began bringing on customers in Jan 2011 brought Series A funding in May Jason featured recently in the Nashville Business…
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Jumpstart Episode 18: Jacques Woodcock Jacques is Founder and President of theKit theKit is a fully hosted CMS platform built around affordability, usability and customer service WordPress and Drupal theKit was in development for 2 years Nov 2010 went launched publicly by sponsoring Nashcocktail Jacques is fascinated with controlling his own destiny he is motivated…
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Jumpstart Episode 17: Kate O’Neill Kate O’Neill is founder and CEO of metamarketer now in year 3, metamarketer uses their client’s marketing channel data to better understand who their customers are was mistakenly taken for social media and SEO experts. Kate made it her mission to have people better understand metamarketer as an analytical firm MO…
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Jumpstart Episode 16: Scott Rouse IdeaBang started in the 80′s when Scott was working in a recording studio he realized that merchandise should be sold in addition to the music musicians need their live shows and merchandise in the future friends with Mark Montgomery (who was interviewed here) thinks that music will become like electricity…
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Hi there. Thanks for listening to Jumpstart! As mentioned in this week’s brief episode, we would sincerely appreciate your rating of the show in iTunes. The better rated the show, the more listeners we’ll get and the more exposure our guests will receive. It’s a win win! We’re also actively seeking new guests for the show. If…
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Jumpstart Episode 15: Cliff McKinney Cliff McKinney is CEO and Co-Founder of Work For Pie, works with Co-Founder Brad Montgomery Work For Pie is an anti-resume for software developers they focus on work that you do, by algorithmically searching opensource code repositories like GitHub and BitBucket programmers highlight their code on their own profiles they aggregate the information and…
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Jumpstart Episode 14: Justin Davis Justin Davis CEO and Founder at interactive product design firm, Madera Labs moving from Nashville to Tampa Justin is a great worker, but a terrible employee. He was inspired by his father, who is a doctor Justin worked in technology at the United Methodist Church. Inspired by his boss Steven Downing,…
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Jumpstart Episode 13: Chris Ennis SimpleEnergy, from Boulder, Colorado, was founded in Dec 2010 a web based technology to bring people together to make energy more fun and more social how they joined TechStars selected as 1 of 12 teams from over 600 applicants – harder than entering Harvard Help Scout from Nashville from TechStars Boston Chris…
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Jumpstart Episode 12: Seth Godin Seth Godin is a best selling author and founder of the Domino Project book publishing is going to scarcity instead of abundance Seth wants people to see what’s he’s doing and steal the idea after 4 years Amazon sells more than hard and soft covers combined! Poke the Box Seth’s…
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Jumpstart Episode 11: Dan Hammond American Hometown Publishing is the only social media business dedicated to recipes and coupons. In 1 year they have surpassed all of AllRecipes.com‘s eight years of content. Started with Publishing Group of America in 1999. Answered the question “Why doesn’t media go to the rest of the country?” Largest publishing…
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Jumpstart Episode 10: Nicholas Holland Centresource is an interactive agency based in Nashville, TN. since 2004. Never start a company in November. Don’t be clever with your company name. Name it something easy to spell. Crushing it since 2007/2008. Read Good to Great. They recognize an important part of their service is to educate clients…
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Jumpstart Episode 9: Rajeev Gupta Rajeev Gupta CEO, CTO and Founder at dbsync. DBSync provides an affordable and simple to use integration solution for Cloud, SaaS or On-premise application like CRM, Accounting or Healthcare EMR delivered both on-demand or on-premise. Originally incubated by Salesforce. Since 2009, first version 2007/2008. Recently a finalist for a TiE50…
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Jumpstart Episode 8: Neely Burks Source Your City (SYC) is a tool that better connects reporters with experts for sourcing news on a local level. Neely was a Jumpstart recipient in Aug 2010, when she founded SYC. Launched beta in Nashville in Jan 2011. The Nashville entrepreneurial community is a great one. Be ready for good,…
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Jumpstart Episode 7: Drew Fassett Drew Passett is Vice President & General Manager at Peak 10 Peak 10 – managed services and data center company. customers are tired of physical assets and servers and are excited about the cloud. cloud business up from 10% last year to  30 – 40 % of their business this…
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Jumpstart Episode 6: Jackson Miller Jackson Miller is founder and CEO of Bizen. Bizen, founded in Sept 2010, provides intelligence for franchises and restaurants using their POS sales. Jackson is a learner and explorer who has always had side projects. His first business was in 2000. In 2007 he decided to cut the chord and…
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Jumpstart Episode 5: Robert Hendrick Robert Hendrick co-founder Change Healthcare They provide cost transparency for the America healthcare consumer, works with large self-insured employers to provide employees with insight to where they can get services at most cost effective price. Founded in 2007 The entrepreneurial bug is a sickness you’re born with. He adopted the title…
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Jumpstart Episode 4: Chris Blanz Chris Blanz is CEO and Creative Director at Cabedge Cabedge started as a graphic design company matured and realized content is the most important thing and how it is organized Cabedge is a overall strategy company with a web centric approach Chris became an entrepreneur at 8 or 9. Independent kid and…
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Jumpstart Episode 3: Marcus Whitney Marcus Whitney is founder and CTO of Moontoast Moontoast creates direct to fans sales channels inside of social recently featured in Billboard Magazine social shopping inside of Facebook started by throwing parties and selling tee shirts knowing how to be an entrepreneur and being one are two different things learning from…
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Jumpstart Episode 2: Mark Montgomery Mark moved to Nashville with just $800. he started Echo in 1999 and left in 2009. he is the EIR at Claritas Capital. worked with setting up the Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC). works as a song writer and trains Australian Shepherds. StudioNow AOL acquisition people don’t recognize Rivals as a local…
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Jumpstart Episode 1: Rex Hammock Dave: Welcome to Jumpstart. I am your host, Dave Delaney. My guest today is Rex Hammock, founder and CEO of the content marketing and media firm, Hammock, Inc. Hi, Rex! Rex: Hello, Dave! How are you today? Dave: I’m great, man. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining me. Rex:…
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Every entrepreneur needs guidance, mentors and tips along their travels. This is why tomorrow we will begin our Jumpstart Podcast, the podcast for entrepreneurs. Whether you’re a seasoned, successful entrepreneur, or you’re just starting out. Jumpstart will be the best podcast for entrepreneurs, because it will feature interviews with many of today’s gurus. You’ll leave every…
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