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He Sold $400k Business for $1.5m Then Reinvested Everything into New Business Feb 28, 2021

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Senior Market Insurance Distribution Leader. Top .01% producer for captive carrier, developed a successful team before starting retail agency on 6.1.08. Built over 12 years, sold for $1.5MM. Now product, service and consulting firm for producers and agencies. Marketing via IMOs as channel partners with direct sales force.

Niche $2m Contractor Management SaaS Raising $7m on $30m Pre Feb 27, 2021

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Bootstrapped Employee Performance SaaS hits $3.6m ARR, Up from $2.4m, Valued at $40m Feb 26, 2021

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Sri is a passionate entrepreneur and leader in building high performance organizations that care about their people. He has spent over 20 years in leading organizations in software development and consulting in the U.S. With a unique background in technology, people management, health IT and film writing, directing and production, Sri brings a diverse set of experiences across industries and specialities to build high performing, highly engaged organizations.

Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY Feb 25, 2021

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When Derek O'Carroll joined Brightpearl three years ago, he took on the biggest risk any CEO can take - a turnaround. Since taking the helm as CEO, Derek has led the retail operations platform from stagnant growth to more than $12 million in revenue, nearly 1,400 customers worldwide, and managing more than $3 billion in orders. Shortlisted for CEO of the Year at the Digital Masters Awards in 2018, the father-of-two is now recognized globally as a retail expert. In the 90s, Derek left his career in chemistry to found Ireland's first online advertising agency and he never looked back. After some painful lessons learned during a market crash that took his business from $9 million in revenue to $900K almost overnight, he moved on to leading Symantec as Senior VP of Norton in EMEA. At Symantec, Derek was responsible $1.7 billion of revenues and 200+ employees globally. There, he learned about value-based management from Jack Welch's protégé Steve Bennett.

Derek has taken all of the leadership lessons and playbooks he's learned to date to take Brightpearl to an unprecedented growth rate and an increase in average deal size by 500%. His specialties include building exceptional teams and creating winning environments, simple messaging, zero ambiguity, and training for excellence.

SalesQualia SaaS Secret Weapon, Helping 35 Founders Scale Pipeline, $1m+ Run Rate Feb 24, 2021

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Sales Coach for B2B Tech Startups, Author, Speaker, Podcaster and Ultra-Marathoner. First head of sales @ Blend.

20 years in Silicon Valley with three B2B startups – one unicorn, one exit, one still going.

Raising $3m Right Now on Back of Slack App Exchange Growth Feb 23, 2021

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Entrepreneur building Aikon Labs, the startup behind Ariv.ai and iEngage.ai

How Measured.com Grew 250% TTM To Break $5m in Revenues Helping WIth Marketing Attribution Feb 22, 2021

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Trevor is the co-founder and CEO of Measured, an industry leader in cross-channel media incrementality measurement for portfolio investment decisions.

Trevor has spent his 20-year career building and growing enterprise technology companies. He is a pioneer and expert in the cross-channel marketing measurement category, having spent the last 10 years working with advertisers to deploy and benefit from advanced cross-channel measurement technologies.

He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands across retail, eCommerce, telco, finance, auto and CPG in North America, Europe and Australia. Trevor earned an MBA from the University of Southern California and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Santa Clara University.

SpringBig Raised $11.5m on $100m Valuation at $20m Revenue in Niche CRM Space Feb 21, 2021

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Jeffrey Harris is Founder and CEO of Springbig, a leading provider in cannabis CRM and loyalty marketing technology with over 25 million users across the United States and Canada. Jeffrey has over 15 years of marketing, sales management and client services experience in the incentive marketing and loyalty marketing fields.

Kountable GMV Decreased from $27m in 2017 to $7m Today. Why? Feb 20, 2021

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Chris Hale is Founder and CEO of Kountable, a San Francisco-based technology company actively solving the world's distribution problem by building a trust network for global trade that integrates, digitzes and optimizes collaboration between qualified big and small players. Its cloud-based global trade platform delivers transparency, governance and efficiency in trade.

How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool Feb 19, 2021

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Christopher Tufford is the Founder & CEO of Green Apple Pay. He left college after two years to start his first business and has success in a variety of unrelated markets from telecom to iGaming including the largest amateur poker league in Canada, the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League.

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