Recognizing a need for high quality, gender-neutral apparel, Fran Dunaway and her wife and cofounder created TomboyX to help you feel comfortable in your own skin and to be unapologetically you. Learn about their investors, the company’s long and steady approach to growing a brand, and the importance of treating everyone in the supply chain fairly. Use the code KATE!% to get 15% off your order at TomboyX.com through April 1.

You can find Fran online at @fdunaway on Twitter, on LinkedIn, and at www.tomboyx.com.

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When he noticed that the technology to sequence genomes was severely under-utilized, Dennis Grishin and his Nebula cofounders sought out a way to bring this straight to consumers. Find out how they built their company to keep their users apprised of breaking scientific discoveries that may relate to their own genetics and overall health.

You can find Dennis online @DennisGrishin on Twitter, on LinkedIn, and at www.nebula.org. 

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Learn how the desire to work + travel simultaneously built a business. Sam Pessin is the co-founder and President of Remote Year, the world's largest international work-travel program for location-independent professionals. In distributed work environments it’s critical to find a way to measure outcomes and results all the way down to an individual level. Sam shares how he and his cofounder navigated building a 100+ person global company that has raised 15M from investors by consistently setting and communicating transparent goals company-wide. 

You can find Sam on LinkedIn, at www.remoteyear.com, and at [email protected]. 

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After starting as a software engineer, Mike got passionate about education reform and began to use his technology expertise to better solve the substitute teacher problem that schools all around the nation experience. Learn how they stay mission-driven and align themselves with investors that care about the kids as much as they care about the bottom line.

You can find Mike online @edumiketeng on Twitter, on LinkedIn, and at www.swingeducation.com.

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Almost a decade ago, Paul and his MAZ cofounders bet on the fact that companies big and small would need their own apps. Learn how they identified a massive market while it was still relatively nascent and how they built a platform that enables over a thousand companies, including Fortune100s, to create their own apps without using code. Other lessons: balancing volume vs. value and notes on managing a team across three time zones.

You can find Paul online @paulcanetti on Twitter and on LinkedIn.  You can also read his work at www.hypotheticallygreat.com.

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We talk about everything from splitting a business in two, when you realize you have two separate use cases, and raising seed capital to the importance of nailing your core processes, product-market fit + culture before your startup begins to scale.

You can find Yashar online @yasharnejati on Twitter, on LinkedIn, and at www.uppercasehq.com. 

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Ryan is a multi-time founder, having led his first two companies - BNQT Media Group and SWARM Mobile - to successful acquisitions by USA Today (2008) and Groupon (2014), respectively. After noticing a gap in the market for IT support in small to mid-sized offices, he launched Electric.ai to make it easier for nontech people to manage their IT and grew it to 150 full-time employees by utilizing remote engineering offices in Argentina.

You can find Ryan online @DenehyXXL on Twitter, on LinkedIn, at www.electric.ai and at [email protected].

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Sean sold Flurry to Yahoo for more than $300M then started up again with Outlier.ai. Tune in to hear what he learned from building a company from startup to acquisition; and how he started again by “focusing on the problem” first.

You can find Sean online @sbyrnes on Twitter, on LinkedIn, at www.seanbyrnes.com and at outlier.ai.

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BabelBark has scaled in a few years to hundreds of thousands of users across several verticals in the “pet parent ecosystem” by building a core remote-first team and outsourcing everything else such as PR, branding, and digital marketing to high-quality, high-cost agencies.

You can find Roy on LinkedIn.

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Dave Nevogt decided to solve his own problem by making time tracking and reporting more transparent for distributed teams. Find out how he met his co-founder on Linkedin and they went on to organically build a business that is doing over 6M ARR with a team spread all over the globe.

You can find Dave online @dnevogt on Twitter, on LinkedIn, and at www.hubstaff.com.

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