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Young Minds Attacking Old Age Problems | SXSW’s First Ever Panel of Young Innovators

Tech Zulu Event

He founded the company at the age of 13 with only $100 in investment making ‘manly candles’ in his kitchen after school. Mikaila Ulmer is the 8 year old owner of BeeSweet Lemonade and 2012 Teenprenereur of the Year Award Recipient. Hart Main is a 15 year old CEO of ManCans.

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Los Angeles-based Frame launches mental health gateway for a pandemic-stricken generation

TechCrunch LA

Its co-founders, Kendall Bird and Sage Grazer, ran their first business in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles years ago, selling out their entire inventory of lemonade to a captive audience of eager parents. Frame aims to do both. If there’s one thing that Bird knows, it’s how to reach a millennial audience.

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Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police

InfoChachkie

Both the video and Seth’s post are excellent primers regarding how to deal with guerilla marketing gone wrong. As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. By: Seth Epstein.

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Young Minds Attacking Age-Old Problems | SXSW’s First Ever Panel of Young Innovators

Tech Zulu Event

He founded the company at the age of 13 with only $100 in investment making ‘manly candles’ in his kitchen after school. Mikaila Ulmer is the 8 year old owner of BeeSweet Lemonade and 2012 Teenprenereur of the Year Award Recipient. Hart Main is a 15 year old CEO of ManCans.

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Make It Work, Now Belongs To Geek Squad

Eric Greenspan

I had a few home runs early on and the company grew. The next MIW logo looked like this: We grew some more and eventually, after becoming the 42nd Citrix Platinum Partner, the company was sold to Push Computing LLC and this happened: Push landed KPMG who eventually would own a decent part of the company. Then another.

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Girl Scouts Learn to Pitch Like a Girl at Startup Weekend

Tech.Co

I got to experience this entrepreneurship focus firsthand helping out as facilitator at the first Startup Weekend with the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles earlier this year where 26 girls came together over a weekend to build companies. It’s this type of event and opportunity I wish I had when I was younger. Photo: Girl Scouts.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. Make the story be about your market.

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