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Giving Nashville entrepreneurs a Jumpstart, and my Return on Involvement

By Kate O'Neill | Published August 5, 2011

“Given your background, we thought you might be interested in getting involved with JumpStart Foundry as either a mentor/advisor or an investor.” I’m sure it was a coincidence that it arrived on my birthday, but on December 23rd last year when I read that invitation in my email, I thought that was a pretty kickass [...]

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Jumpstart Foundry on Venture Nashville

By Kate O'Neill | Published April 25, 2011

[David] Corts and at least 51 others have been tapped as mentors and dubbed “the brightest entrepreneurial minds around” by Nashvilles JumpStart Foundry, which is an incubator and microfund… . via NewsBits, April 25, 2011 on Venture Nashville. Yours truly is one of those “51 others.” I think that softens the claim of “the brightest [...]

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10 Things I Learned in 2010: Kate O’Neill

By Kate O'Neill | Published December 30, 2010

Most of what I learned in 2010 had to do with — surprise, surprise! — running a business. I’ve been a consultant and solopreneur a few times in my past, but until I started [meta]marketer in early 2009 I had never begun a venture with the mindset that I was creating something that could potentially [...]

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Mention in Nashville Post about Startup Weekend

By Kate O'Neill | Published October 9, 2009

I was interviewed yesterday by Erin Lawley at the Nashville Post as part of an article on Nashville Startup Weekend, and that article came out today: Kate O’Neill did not launch a business based on last year’s Nashville Startup Weekend, but she said participating in the event helped give her the confidence to become an [...]

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No Shoes, No Shirt, No Email Address History, No Service?

By Kate O'Neill | Published August 25, 2009

An article in today’s InternetRetailer.com daily news called “Why retailers can probably trust consumers with lots of Facebook friends” caught my eye: Accertify announced today a deal to incorporate into its fraud-screening process data from Rapleaf, a company that has indexed over 600 million e-mail addresses, and tracks such information as how many social network [...]

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