OF10podcast

Joah Spearman is the founder and CEO at Localeur, a website and app that makes it possible for people to experience what the locals eat, drink, and play wherever they go. Localeur has been called one of the best travel apps by The Today Show, Forbes, TIME, The Guardian and more. Joah is one of the few African-American technology founders to  have raised more than $5 million.

He previously co-founded the official style segments of both South by Southwest and ESPN X Games, and created a pop-up sneaker boutique in Downtown Austin.

Joah is a SXSW speaker, writes for Huffington Post, and has been featured in the New York Times, Black Enterprise Magazine, Crains.com, Blavity and more. 

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Dawn W. Dickson is a serial entrepreneur and founder CEO at PopCom, a startup developing future-ready solutions for vending and self-service retail and Flat Out of Heels (rollable flats for women to get relief from painful heels). She’s spoken for, or been given awards by Forbes, Black Enterprise, Fortune Magazine and more   Dawn received her B.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University, and participated in the NewME and Techstars accelerators.  

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This is a special edition of the OF10podcast - a revisit in honor of Afrotech 2018 with guest and my homegirl Mandela SH Dixon who is not only passionate about - but super insightful and helpful for tech founders trying to raise funds, get traction, and build good businesses. As the dynamic founder of FounderGym, an online training center she developed to help underrepresented tech founders at scale, she gave the playbook to a standing room only audience at Afrotech this year. She was also the MC for the entire 2017 event, and she just shines bright.   So, I hope you enjoy this interview.   If you have a business, maybe you are your business, or maybe you just have a super-lit IG that more people should be following, you’ve got all these great things, but how do you get your content and your profile in front of a larger audience? And not just any audience, but the right audience based on their location and interests.   That’s where PopSocial.com comes in. PopSocial.com turns your 1 man Instagram crew into an entire team helping you get your content out to a larger audience - the right audience based on superior demographic and location targeting.   Use my code of10podcast (no spaces, all capital letters) to get $20 off the first month. Visit popsocial.com and use my code of10podcast to get $20 off your first month today!

This is a special edition of the OF10podcast - a revisit in honor ofAfroTech 2018 with my guy, Frederick Hutson, who gave another incredible talk at AfroTech 2018 - he also gave a dope talk back at the 2017 event also. I wanted you to hear his story - I think he’s a complete inspiration for people out there who feel like the odds may be stacked against them and that past decisions limit their potential.   After this podcast, my hope is that you’re even more convinced of your ability to go out there and do something remarkable.   If you have a business, maybe you are your business, or maybe you just have a super-lit IG that more people should be following, you’ve got all these great things, but how do you get your content and your profile in front of a larger audience? And not just any audience, but the right audience based on their location and interests.   That’s where PopSocial.com comes in. PopSocial.com turns your 1 man Instagram crew into an entire team helping you get your content out to a larger audience - the right audience based on superior demographic and location targeting.   Use my code of10podcast (no spaces, all capital letters) to get $20 off the first month. Visit popsocial.com and use my code of10podcast to get $20 off your first month today!

This is a special edition of the OF10podcast - a revisit in honor ofAfroTech 2018 with a guest, Danielle Leslie who had arguably Top 3 talks at AfroTech 2018. What I loved about every time Danielle is on stage or is featured anywhere, she always provides so much value - it’s honestly just better if you record it because its 6 value bombs per minute and if you’re scribbling it down in a notepad, you’re gonna miss 5 of them. I wanted you to hear the gems she also dropped on this episode in case you missed it or just in case you need a refresher.   After this podcast, my hope is that you’re even more convinced of your ability to go out there and do something remarkable.   If you have a business, maybe you are your business, or maybe you just have a super-lit IG that more people should be following, you’ve got all these great things, but how do you get your content and your profile in front of a larger audience? And not just any audience, but the right audience based on their location and interests.   That’s where PopSocial.com comes in. PopSocial.com turns your 1 man Instagram crew into an entire team helping you get your content out to a larger audience - the right audience based on superior demographic and location targeting.   Use my code of10podcast (no spaces, all capital letters) to get $20 off the first month. Visit popsocial.com and use my code of10podcast to get $20 off your first month today!

This is a special edition of the OF10podcast - a revisit in honor of AfroTech 2018 with guest, Everette Taylor who just gave FIRE talk at the largest Black Tech Conference in the world. He dropped many gems on stage, and I wanted you to hear the gems he also dropped on this episode in case you missed it or just in case you need a refresher.   AfroTech 2018 was another amazing event, and all I can say is - we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. And after this podcast, my hope is that you’re even more convinced of your ability to go out there and do something remarkable.   If you have a business, maybe you are your business, or maybe you just have a super-lit IG that more people should be following, you’ve got all these great things, but how do you get your content and your profile in front of a larger audience? And not just any audience, but the right audience based on their location and interests.   That’s where PopSocial comes in. PopSocial.com turns your 1 man Instagram crew into an entire team helping you get your content out to a larger audience - the right audience based on superior demographic and location targeting.   Use my code of10podcast (no spaces, all capital letters) to get $20 off the first month. Visit popsocial.com and use my code of10podcast to get $20 off your first month today!

Erin Horne McKinney is Managing Partner for Inclusion at Jumpstart, an accelerator and venture capital firm in Ohio, and she's Co-Founder at Black Female Founders. She previously served as Senior Advisor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the mayoral administration in DC.

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Rod Robinson is the founder and CEO of ConnXus, a supplier diversity software company that connects diverse suppliers to Fortune 2000 companies. He spent nearly 20 years as chief procurement officer at a major telecom, and as a management consultant with firms like Accenture and AT Kearney.   Rod holds a bachelors from West Virginia University, and got his MBA at Wharton.   In 2012, Rod was recognized as a finalist for Ernst & Youngs Entrepreneur of the Year award.

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Season 5 Coming Soon! Enjoy this advanced release of episode 1/10!

Marlon Nichols is a co-founder and managing partner at Cross Culture Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with a focus on cultural investing. Before founding Cross Culture Ventures, Marlon was an investment director at Intel Capital. Prior to his time in venture capital, Marlon led successful careers in software and strategy consulting in the technology, private equity, media and entertainment sectors. Some of Marlon’s investments include Gimlet Media, LISNR, Mayvenn, and more. 

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Mandela SH Dixon is co-founder at Founder Gym, an online training center that teaches underrepresented founders how to build successful tech startups. She began her career in Silicon Valley in 2011 as a startup founder backed by Kapor Capital, 500 Startups, and Imagine K12. She led a global entrepreneurial program called Startup Weekend Education that spanned six continents and empowered thousands of entrepreneurs to launch edtech startups. Most recently, Mandela worked at venture capital firm Kapor Capital, where she supported the success of over 120 tech startups. She’s spoken for TEDx, Google, and Facebook. She’s Forbes 30 Under 30, LinkedIn's Top 10 Voices in Venture Capital and Startups, and Medium's Top 10% of Writers.

 

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