Jessica Jackley: Being a Happy & Successful Founder/CEO/Mom

February 28, 2024April 27, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Jessica Jackley is Founder and CEO Profounder. Prior to ProFounder, Jessica cofounded and served as CMO of Kiva, the world’s first peer-to-peer microlending platform. Since its launch in 2005, Kiva has facilitated over $200M in loans, connecting lenders and entrepreneurs in 209 countries. Jessica is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 2011 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and serves as an active board member on several organizations including Opportunity International, the International Museum of Women, and Allowance for Good. Currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Jessica has also taught Global Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC. You can find Jessica on Twitter @jessicajackley

Guy Kawasaki: How Can Women Enchant Funders? Part II

February 28, 2024March 16, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Guy Kawasaki, Founder Alltop. Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and Guy is also a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. You can find Guy @ his blog & on Twitter @GuyKawasaki

Adeo Ressi, Founder Institute: Change Startup Culture to Encourage Women

February 28, 2024February 23, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Video Interview with Adeo Ressi, Founding Member of TheFunded.com. TheFunded.com is an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eighth start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating. You can find Adeo @ his blog or on Twitter @adeoressi or Founding Institute @founding

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Jeff Booth is a visionary leader, technology entrepreneur and best-selling author of The Price of Tomorrow – Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future. With his expertise in technology, system thinking and design, he is at the forefront of a transition from an economic system built for the past, and one built for the future.

Jeff has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc.com, The Globe and Mail, BNN, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2015, he was named BC Technology Industry Association’s (BCTIA) Person of the Year, and in 2016 Goldman Sachs named him among its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

He is a Founding Partner of ego death capital, Co-Founder of addy and NocNoc. He has been a Young Presidents Organization member since 2004 and contributes time as a Founding Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab.

Jeff currently sits on the boards of Core Scientific, Scoop Solar, Fedi and Breez.

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Jeff wrote a really interesting article on Bitcoin Finding Signal In A Noisy World