June 4, 2019
E48 - Stages of Company Building: From Startup to Growth and Exit with Cheryl Contee
Episode 48 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Cheryl Contee, CEO at Do Big Things and Author of Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.
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Episode 48 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Cheryl Contee, CEO at Do Big Things and Author of Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.
This episode of Hacker Noon is sponsored by Indeed Prime.
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Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.In this episode Cris Beasley interviews Cheryl Contee, co-founder of social marketing software Attentive.ly at Blackbaud, the first tech startup with a black female founder on board in history to be acquired by a NASDAQ-traded company. You get to learn essential stages of successful company building and how to combine the career of entrepreneur with motherhood.
"There is no job, there is no product, there is no service that doesn't involve technology going forward in the 21 century.”
“Be yourself and find the investors who really get you especially if you don't come from a technical background, if you are a woman, if you are a minority. You might have to knock on more doors. I certainly did. I have to knock on a lot more doors to finally find those investors who really got it. ” — Cheryl Contee
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Host: Cris Beasley - https://hackernoon.com/@crisbeasley
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