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1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months Nov 07, 2019

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The team is led by CEO & Founder, Tarik Khribech. Tarik is supported by Director, Consultant, Terri Friel and various mentors at 1871, Chicago's Premier Incubator. Tarik is a serial Entrepreneur, with expertise and passion that sits at the nexus of technology, innovation, lifestyle and social innovation. He built l'Or d'Afrique, a line of beauty products currently in 400 outlets and eCommerce. Tarik built the ChoreRelief platform.

1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad Nov 06, 2019

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Jay is the Founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS company called CloudSponge which sells an Address Book Widget and Contacts API that companies like Airbnb, Nextdoor, Yelp, GoFundMe and Stitch Fix use to grow their customer bases virally.

1564 How He Makes $180k/mo Selling Drone Tech to Mining Sites and OEM's Nov 05, 2019

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Ravi Sahu is a founder and CEO of Strayos. Before founding Strayos, he spent more than 12 years working globally with Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon and British Telecom in various roles, from product management to the building of teams for large digital transformation projects. His area of expertise is in Artificial intelligence and data analytics. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and Computer Science engineering degree from India.

1563 Why $28M+ ARR Wrike Tests New Channels at 24 Month Payback, Then Stabilizes at 12 Month Payback Over Time Nov 04, 2019

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Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a SaaS-based work management platform that helps teams achieve operational excellence. Founded in 2006, Wrike now serves more than 15,000 customers in 130 countries, and employees 600 people across 5 offices. The company has raised north of of $26 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, DCM Ventures and TMT.

1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month Nov 03, 2019

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Nicolas Dessaigne is co-founder and CEO of Algolia, the leading Search & Discovery API for websites and mobile apps. Launched in 2012, Algolia is now used by over 5,800 companies around the world. Prior to Algolia, Nicolas spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.

1561 How To Get 5 Team Members Paying Personally Onto One Team Account with $5m ARR MixMax Nov 02, 2019

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Olof Mathé is the CEO and a co-founder of Mixmax, a company that is "bringing the power of the Web to email" by creating richer email experiences with embeddable Slack-style commands to trigger polls, video, calendar invites, and more without leaving the message. Mixmax was founded in 2014 and received a $1.5 million seed investment round from a number of individual investors in April 2015.After finishing his engineering degree in France, Olof previously worked at Skype and McKinsey. He also helped grow Inkling Habitat, a cloud-based authoring environment for writers and publishers.

1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX) Nov 01, 2019

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Carlo Cisco is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful companies and helped grow category-defining brands. Carlo is currently the Founder & CEO of SELECT, which has been heralded as "AMEX for the Next Generation" and "The Black Card for Millennials". Carlo is also a member of YEC and has been featured in 100+ stories across numerous media outlets including Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Huffington Post.

1559 Why This $50k ARR Company Banking on Upwork Partnership To Drive Job Growth in Undeveloped Countries Oct 31, 2019

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Originally from Guatemala, moved to madrid to build a virtual workplace that enhances productivity for remote work; I genuinely believe it can be done. With this, there'll be no limits for undeveloped countries, which have so many people with an unmeasurable desire for success but lacks education, and decent, fair job offers.

1558 Why This Event Management CEO Believes 25% Of Her $2.5m In Revenue Should Be Professional Services Oct 30, 2019

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Allie Magyar, Hubb CEO, is a skilled entrepreneur and technology maven with over 15 years of experience driving successful technology enabled service companies. Allie has been named a 2017 Portland Business Journal's 40 Under 40, a 2017 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Smart Meetings Magazine and, in 2018 was an EY Pacific NW Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

Shutting podcast down today (nasty attack) Oct 29, 2019

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