In the early 2000s, Julia Hartz was helping develop TV shows for MTV and FX Networks, and seemed headed for a promising career in television. All of that changed in 2003 when she went to a wedding and found herself sitting next to a serial entrepreneur named Kevin. They started dating, and Julia eventually quit her job and joined Kevin in the Bay Area. In 20 ... Show More
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Serena & Lily: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. They Built a $20M Brand—Then One Investor Almost Destroyed It
Many founders think the hardest thing about business is finding customers.It's not.It's surviving success.When Lily Kanter and Serena Dugan launched a luxury baby linen business, they had no manufacturing experience, no inventory, and barely any capital. But after their first cat ... Show More
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Business Daily meets: Julia Hartz
From noticing a gap in the market, to launching a start-up with her husband, CEO Julia Hartz tells us how she's built Eventbrite to become one of the biggest event ticketing platforms in the world, distributing 272 million tickets to more than 1.7 million global events in 2024. T ... Show More
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Let your customers be your scouts, w/Eventbrite's Julia Hartz
That constant roar of customer feedback? Be thankful for it. It holds all the secrets to your success, if you learn how to read the signs. Listen to what users say, sure. But also watch what they do and interpret what they need. Eventbrite's Julia Hartz embodies this principle. S ... Show More
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20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by Too Much Cash with Kevin Hartz @ A*
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at <a href= "https://www.a-star.co/">A*</a>, an early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to founding A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a publicly traded company, and served as the CEO for the first 11 y ... Show More
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The Woman Behind 2,000,000 Weddings
<p>#19: After the worst wedding gift-buying experience online, Shan-Lyn Ma started a journey to revolutionize the industry and co-founded Zola. Now the CEO, she shares how she used modern technology, ambition, and sheer hard work to fundraise and launch what became the fastest-gr ... Show More
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20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaEnthoven">Julia Enthoven</a> is the Founder & CEO @ <a href= "https://www.kapwing.com/">Kapwing</a>, the startup that provides a new, collaborative platform for creating images, videos, and GIFs. To date they have raised $13m from some dear fr ... Show More
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#145: Rachel Blumenthal: Founder and CEO, Rockets of Awesome
Rachel Blumenthal had her first entrepreneurial venture when she was 10 years old, convincing her little brother to dress up and make balloon animals at birthday parties. From there, Blumenthal has gone on to start three companies, her most recent, Rockets of Awesome, which is a ... Show More
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