Startup Hunter

Startup Hunter

By Hunter PeressBusiness
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Startup Hunter episodes

  • The Story of Foursquare: Dennis Crowley
    Over the last 20 years, Dennis has focused on basically one thing: improve the ways people move through and interact with cities. Moving to New York in 1998, he was laid off in the dotcom bubble, he learned how to code himself, and over the next few years he kept adapting his ideas to the bleeding edge of tech. Before iPhones existed, he put his friend-populated cityguide "Dodgeball" on the wireless web eventually selling the company to Google and leaving after it was shut down. Unable to give up, he approached a similar thesis in 2009 on the iPhone and called this idea Foursquare. Not an overnight success, but through lots of iteration and grit, Foursquare finally took off to over 50 million users. Today, Foursquare is alive as a data company where he stepped down as the CEO, but Dennis' true passion lies bringing new and fun ideas to everyday consumers. http://startuphunter.co
    1 hr 5 min
  • Christian Balevski: Knowledgine

    Christian is at the start of his entrepreneurial journey with lots of great practice behind him. He taught himself how to code, and now is executing the early stages of an educational platform named Knowledgine designed to level the playing field and provide access to audio lectures.

    http://Knowledgine.com

    Video at http://startuphunter.co

    1 hr
  • Luci Light & MPOWERD Founder & CEO John Salzinger & Seungah Jeong

    From NYC event promoter to fashion photographer to network television executive producer, John Salzinger visited Haiti after the earthquake and was compelled to find the single most effective tool to build capacity cheaply....thus the Lucee Light was born which gave way to the MPOWERED a brand of lights that focuses on solar in the consumer space. Seungah Jeong, an established entrepreneur in her own right felt unfulfilled in the beauty industry and finally found the company of her dreams in MPOWERED. Together, they lead the brand into future innovating exciting new products.

    http://startuphunter.co

    46 min
  • 7 Figure Non Profit Growth with Rhea Wong
    From Eldest Sister to Editor in Chief to her first Executive Director Role at 26, Rhea grew a non-profit serving low-income children from 200k a year over 10x to a multimillion dollar a year organization.  http://startuphunter.co
    48 min
  • From Olympic Tryouts to Virtual Fitness CEO: Brandon Wynn

    Brandon started his career training twice a day as a gymnast by the age of 13. He medaled in the rings for the US at the world championships, he almost made the Olympics. Now Brandon has put in the hard work and the right work to grow a strong social media brand where he has built a virtual training business on top of that. We take a look at the insights he has gained in this process and where he plans to go next with his business.

    Video available at http://startuphunter.co

    43 min
  • Sires Crown Eyewear

    I sit down with CJ Thomason of Sires Crown Eyewear https://www.sireseyewear.com/ which started in his garage 12 years ago and is now blazing the way with innovative and super creative designs all over the world. 

    56 min

About Startup Hunter

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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for startups (also on youtube!) My name is Hunter Peress and I am in the trenches and on the hunt for new and exciting startups....or failed startups with new and…