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@BetaBlox
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7 years
Can't miss KC entrepreneur event: 15+ Startup pitches, 100's of guests, panels - all free!
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@BetaBlox
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Thank you to our sponsor, @KauffmanFDN , guests, & investors for the support of our 1st multi-city Demo Days. 1000+ confirmed attendees.
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@BetaBlox
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@BetaBlox
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We cannot disclose how The Reaper did on The Blox. But you will be pleased. Until we publish, we are 🤐
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Day 2 of filming has come to an end. Off to bed, it's time for some well earned rest. Tomorrow we are back at it trying to be crowned the King of the Blox! @BetaBlox
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@BetaBlox
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@bopinion This is the most egregiously wrong headline we’ve seen in years. This deserves to be taken down until the writer understands their business model.
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@BetaBlox
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When we look back in five years, we are going to realize that there were 10 to 20 amazing companies that were started that changed the world and led us to a brighter future. Ask yourself: “Why Not Me” or “Why Not Us”. Now is your time. The world is waiting.
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@BetaBlox
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We aim to give out over $100,000 in straight up prize money in 2024. This is the first of hopefully many jumbo checks.
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@BetaBlox
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Compliments about your startup don't mean a thing until someone pays you for it
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@BetaBlox
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6 years
Hey Chiefs fans...this is what entrepreneurship feels like everyday. But we will keep our heads high. We will work on our weaknesses. And we will come back stronger. Eventually we’ll win it all.
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@BetaBlox
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Exclusive: KC incubator scores big investment, expands to Oklahoma via @KCBizjournal
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@BetaBlox
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The 14 startups from Kansas City that had the best 2016! @AthleteNet @BlooomInc @DivvyHQ @eyeverify @fanthreesixty
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@BetaBlox
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🙌🙌🙌
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Business is a contact sport. If you’re afraid to get hurt, you won’t play well.
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@BetaBlox
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Adapt or go out of business
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Think about how different our world would be if we were more encouraging to those who take risks....
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@BetaBlox
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"Building a startup is damn hard. One day you’re invincible, the next day you want to crawl into a corner and die." - @mitchellharper
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@BetaBlox
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"It's a good idea to ask, 'What am I not doing?'" #TheHardThingAboutHardThings
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@BetaBlox
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2 years
The Blox is the greatest live-in entrepreneurship competition docu-series ever created.  We just published season 5, watch it here:
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@BetaBlox
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8 years
Never underestimate the power of habits & routines. They represent the foundation for your startup's productivity.
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@BetaBlox
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"We would fall on our faces, but we would learn fast and do what was needed to survive." - Ben Horowitz, a16z venture capital
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@BetaBlox
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7 years
Yesterday was probably your day off, and that's okay. But today it's back to building the venture of your dreams.
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@BetaBlox
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Season 3 of The Blox just dropped today. 👀 It’s the greatest show on startups in the world. 🚀 Watch immediately on either FB watch, or our free apps on Android & iTunes (search “The Blox”). 👨‍🚀
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@BetaBlox
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"Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty" - Leo Rosten
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@BetaBlox
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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room
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@BetaBlox
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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room
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@BetaBlox
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If you can build something great, you have the duty to do so
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@BetaBlox
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9 years
Don't be intimidated by the size of the mountain you're staring down. It's just one foot in front of the other, like anything else.
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@BetaBlox
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8 years
It's shocking how much more creative entrepreneurs can become when they're constrained. A 'lack of resources' is an opportunity.
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@BetaBlox
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10 years
The best networking event of the year is here! 1,000+ people expected. Union Station. FREE. http://t.co/rPyiXnnJtQ http://t.co/sjv4motoKh
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@BetaBlox
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The harder you work, the luckier you get
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@BetaBlox
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1. Start with a small market that you can dominate 2. Use that momentum to branch into a slightly bigger market 3. Repeat.
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@BetaBlox
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7 years
The riskiest thing you can do to your startup is hold out until every ounce of risk is attempted to be taken out.
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@BetaBlox
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In entrepreneurship, the best storyteller wins.
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@BetaBlox
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Y’all aren’t even gonna believe the entrepreneurial monstrosity we’re building right now.
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A good entrepreneur has the keen ability to see an advantage where others see a disadvantage.
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@BetaBlox
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One million views for last week’s episode on Facebook alone. Not counting the app, website, and eventually Prime Video. This is the fastest growing business show in the galaxy. 🧑‍🚀🚀
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@BetaBlox
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Grow audience; make things they want; sell those things to your audience; repeat - Alexis Ohanian, Founder of Reddit
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@BetaBlox
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It's not called 'faking it until you make it', it's called having faith in yourself and your business until you make it.
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@BetaBlox
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Entrepreneurs have a healthy intolerance for the status quo.
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@BetaBlox
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You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket; nor can you become a successful entrepreneur if you don't start a company. Just start.
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@BetaBlox
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What separates the average person from an entrepreneur is the entrepreneur's ability to sacrifice things a normal person never would.
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Make sure what you're building is so valuable that consumers wonder what they did before it existed
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@BetaBlox
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In entrepreneurship being weird is a differentiator; which is more memorable, shareable, and lucrative. Embrace your weirdness.
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@BetaBlox
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An entrepreneur's job isn't to simply manage people...but to also manage doubt, haters, insecurities, society, and expectations.
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@BetaBlox
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Congratulations to the winners of season 7 of The Blox! 🥇 The Atarah Styles Agency QActual Smiley Aesthetics
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@BetaBlox
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Don't argue with your mentors or customers when they give you feedback. Your job is not to justify. Your job is to listen.
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The world loses if you stay on the sidelines and don't start your company or share your expertise. Get out there.
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Don't take rejection too personally, it's just part of the game.
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@BetaBlox
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You should be spending half your time making your product and half your time testing scalable methods for selling it
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@BetaBlox
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1. Find what your competition is not doing 2. Narrow your scope 3. Create a category 4. Eliminate temptations 5. Stay disciplined
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@BetaBlox
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Do the job yourself, first, before you hire someone to do it. You'll pick a better employee, and be able to manage them easier.
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@BetaBlox
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Actually starting a company will always be more educational than any academic environment ever could be
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@BetaBlox
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The biggest myth of starting a company: "I won't have a boss." HA! When you're an entrepreneur, everyone is your boss.
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@BetaBlox
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Great startups begin in basements/garages/caves all the time - so can yours.
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There is no ceiling for how much a founder should know about entrepreneurship and their industry
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If you're not prepared to sacrifice things that are dear to you, you're not prepared to be an entrepreneur.
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@BetaBlox
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Show me an entrepreneur who stops making themselves better, and I'll show you an entrepreneur who will soon be obsolete
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@BetaBlox
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Uh Oh! 👀 We're in trouble... We're in the top 1% heaviest bandwidth pages on Vimeo. We've violated their bandwidth max 2X this month. Our viewing time this YR is counted in years (almost at 2 years of y'alls lives 😂). And this doesn't even count the 600K+ views on FB.
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@BetaBlox
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@SVBizCrom @davemcclure this is Peter Thiel's dream company
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"The largest untapped resource on the planet is the spare time, creativity, and disposable income of the 'creative class'" - Hatch
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@BetaBlox
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Live for something. Believe in it. Stand up and shout it from the rooftops.
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"More important than being charismatic, entrepreneurs need to be effective communicators, recruiters, and salespeople" - Aulet
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@BetaBlox
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If you're not stumbling at least a little bit, you're not pushing the boundaries enough.
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You need to make investors feel like the airplane is taking off with or without them.
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@BetaBlox
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An entrepreneur's instinct constantly yearns for forward motion, regardless of how small or slow
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@BetaBlox
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What you feel like when you start a new company
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@BetaBlox
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Yes, entrepreneurship is hard. But sometimes there is no concrete answer for how to do it other than to just will yourself to do so.
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@BetaBlox
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6 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Understand About Banking, interview with @CommerceBank 's Matt White.
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Ideas=cheap+everywhere. Execution=everything
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@BetaBlox
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Most investors in the Midwest, or anywhere for that matter, would rather be a little less rich than work with assholes.
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@BetaBlox
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You should strive to be building something that is an order of magnitude (ten times) greater than what the status quo is using today. Anything less than that falls under the category of 'marginal improvement' - which will prove to be too hard and expensive to sell.
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@BetaBlox
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You should have confidence, but never so much that you stop improving.
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@BetaBlox
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Startups: don't ever...ever...ever...forget to market to this type of customer.
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@BetaBlox
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Want to turn a prospect into a customer for life? Find a way to teach them something. People never forget those that teach.
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