The last time I spoke to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, he had set a pretty audacious goal for his company to achieve $5 billion in revenue. At the time, that seemed a bit far-fetched. But the company has continued to thrive and is on track to pass $3 billion in revenue some time in the next couple of quarters. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch
Supersolid, a London-based mobile games developer with more than 50 million downloads under its belt, is best known for the smash hit games like Super Penguins, Adventure Town and Pororo Penguin Run. The company has now raised a $4 million Series A investment round, led by Index Ventures. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch
CEO Gary White, Actor Matt Damon and their Kansas City, Missouri based Water.org team empowers families with access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing.
In their own words (https://water.org/about-us/)
Access to safe water can protect and save lives, just because it’s there. Access to safe water has the power to turn time spent into time saved, when it’s close and not hours away. Access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlocking education, economic prosperity, and improved health.
Every human being deserves to define their own future, and water makes that possible. We’ve transformed more than seven million lives with access to safe water and sanitation, and together we can reach even more people.
For more than 25 years, we’ve made it our mission to bring water and sanitation to the world. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, we pioneer market-driven financial solutions to the global water crisis.
In the news
Matt Damon and Gary White on the World’s Water Crisis | NPR, April 2017, Emily Bogle
Talking Toilets with Matt Damon | National Geographic, August 2017, Susan Goldberg
To learn more about what they’re up to visit www.Water.org
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Thank you Gary and Matt for the benefit of your influence and leadership in support of this cause.
Here WE Grow!
Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug
In their own words (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18239361/)
There are over 300 million children who do not have shoes, and countless more with shoes that do not fit. Learn how The Shoe That Grows is working to change that!
Because International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes that everyone living in desperate poverty, especially a child, deserves opportunities to succeed. Our mission is to use the positive cycle of innovation to fight the negative cycle of poverty.
Our first product – The Shoe That Grows – has been designed specifically for kids living in poverty. With shoes, kids are healthier, attend school more often, and are more confident. The Shoe That Grows has 5x the impact of ordinary shoes because it expands 5 sizes and lasts for years. Over 100,000 pairs have been distributed in over 90 countries, and with production starting in Ethiopia, we’re not only blessing kids with shoes but people with jobs. We’re committed to making things better by making better things and look forward to releasing our next product soon while also coming alongside local entrepreneurs to help them make their own innovative ideas come to life.
Without shoes, children are especially vulnerable to soil-transmitted diseases and parasites that can cause illness and even death.
Children who get sick miss school, can’t help their families, and suffer needlessly. And since children’s feet grow so quickly, they often outgrow donated shoes within a year, leaving them once again exposed to illness and disease.
In the news
The Shoe that Grows Hope Around the World | Good Feed, 9.26.2017
To learn more about what they’re up to at Because International and visit www.theshoethatgrows.org.
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Doug Parker | Linkedin-kickassdoug
CEO Kristin Carrol and her San Diego based Rescue team believe that marketing can do more than sell goods, it can create good.
In their own words (www.rescueagency.com)
Rescue provides behavior change marketing services (or “social marketing”) to government, non-profit and corporate organizations. Rescue’s current work focuses on tobacco, obesity, violence and alcohol prevention; the promotion of exercise, fresh foods and after school programs; and other products and services that promote healthy living. Most of Rescue’s behavior change campaigns focus on teens (13 – 17) and young adults (18 – 26), resulting in unrivaled experience in adolescent behavior change campaigns. Rescue is a full-service agency, providing research, strategy, creative, production, web, traditional media, social media, policy change, youth engagement and experiential marketing services to clients in over a dozen states and provinces, as well as to federal government agencies.
Rescue provides comprehensive behavior change marketing programs. We begin with our proprietary formative research process, Peer Science™. Through this process, we segment the audience into “peer crowds,” which are the macro-level connections between peer groups with similar interests, lifestyles, influencers, and habits. Then, we investigate the values, information, habits, and/or structural challenges that drive the unhealthy behavior or prevent people from performing the healthy behavior to determine whether a policy change, knowledge change, or norm change program would be most effective.
Rescue is a Rescue provides comprehensive behavior change marketing programs. We begin with our proprietary formative research process, Peer Science™. Through this process, we segment the audience into “peer crowds,” which are the macro-level connections between peer groups with similar interests, lifestyles, influencers, and habits. Then, we investigate the values, information, habits, and/or structural challenges that drive the unhealthy behavior or prevent people from performing the healthy behavior to determine whether a policy change, knowledge change, or norm change program would be most effective.
To learn more about what they’re up to at Rescue visit www.RescueAgency.com.
Please support Kristin and the Rescue team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Doug Parker
@RescueAgency, #marketing, #youth, #lifestyles, #healthy, #behaviors, #habits, #change, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #forgeyourown
In their own words (source – www.chanje.us)
Chanje is a California-based OEM delivering medium duty electric vehicles and turnkey energy infrastructure services for the last mile. Our opportunity is bigger than simply replacing fossil fuel vehicles with electric. Our vision is to create sustainable urban solutions that improve the last mile and positively impact people, businesses, and communities.
Our flagship platform is the first electric medium duty panel van designed and built from the ground up to meet the specific needs of the last mile industry. This approach allows us to offer maximum payload, maximum cargo capacity, the most efficient powertrain, a comfortable driving experience… and it happens to be fully electric. The V8070 is a no compromise solution.
Ready for Chanje?
In the News
A new all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it’s not from Tesla | Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2017
Ryder makes a “Chanje” with electric van rentals | FOX NEWS, August 14, 2017
To learn more about what they’re up to at Chanje visit www.Chanje.us.
Please help support Ian Gardner, Bryan Hansel and the Chanje team by giving this a LIKE, SHARE it with your wider social networks and JOIN their communities on Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Doug Parker
@ChanjeEnergy, #transportation, #lastmile, #delivery, #renewables, #environment, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #forgeyourown
In 2016, Director Arthur Zards and the TEDxNapierville team unleashed Tim Ryan’s “Dope to Hope” campaign against the U.S. Opioid epidemic. What’s Next!?
TEDxNapierville Press Release
What do a certificate of friendship from the KKK, a machete wielding thug , and Pablo Picasso’s paint have in common?
Naperville (November 10, 2017) – TEDxNaperville is an annual free-thinking conference that brings the brightest minds of Chicagoland and beyond to Naperville to share ideas worth spreading. The conference will be held Nov. 10 from 1pm-7pm at the Yellow Box, Naperville.
Since its inaugural conference in 2010, they’ve become the longest-running independent TED conference in the Midwest with well over 1 million talk views and thousands of previous attendees. “It’s the Lollapalooza of ideas,” says TEDxNaperville founder and curator Arthur Zards, “we bring a very unique and diverse group of thought leaders to challenge your perceptions.”
TEDxNaperville speakers represent a diverse collection of local forward-thinkers, some include:
· Daryl Davis, unorthodox racial conversationalist, who solves racial discourse, yet has received a certificate of friendship from the Ku Klux Klan
· Lynne Franklin, persuasive communicator, who is so persuasive, she once talked her way out of being held hostage with a person with a machete.
· Dr. Volker Rose, nanoscale materials physicist, who uses the world largest advanced photo source to analyze Pablo Picassos paint
· Robert Renteria, a civil right leader, who’s story is an inspirational book, a comic book, a coloring book, and even a play.
· Subhi, Hinda pop jazz artist, once a wall street employee, now writing music by fusing jazz and Hindi
· Dr. Ed Ellison, CEO of the Southeast Permanente Medical Group, who is re- inventing how Doctor work and train.
For more information on then other speaker, and to register, go to www.TEDxNaperville.com. The program cost ranges from $75 per ticket.The cost includes one TEDxNaperville Adventure (included with admission price based on availability) and a reception following the event.
About TEDx Naperville
TEDx Naperville is an all-volunteer army and all proceeds go directly into putting on the highest quality event each year. For more information, visit tedxnaperville.com, facebook.com/tedxnaperville, twitter.com/tedxnaperville, or view talks at tedxnaperville.com/talks.
Doug Parker | Linkedin
@TEDxNapierville, #2017, #Napierville, #IL, #ideasworthsharing, #ourentrepidnetwork, #herewegrow, #youkickassmyfriend
Tesla is taking a “proactive measure” out of an “abundance of caution,” the company says, in handling an issue with a cable used in the adjusting second row seating in a small percent of Model X vehicles. The automaker has issued a voluntary recall, which will apply to 11,000 Model X vehicles it would like to inspect – though it believes only 3 percent of those… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch
Used car marketplace CarGurus spiked over 72% during its first day of trading. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company had raised over $150 million after pricing its IPO at $16. By close of trading Thursday, shares had gone up over 72%, closing at $27.58. In a conversation earlier this morning with CarGurus CFO Jason Trevisan, he claimed that the business has become “the largest… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch
Waymo launched a campaign earlier this week alongside partners including the National Safety Council to help explain why it believes that its pursuit of autonomous driving is a means to safer roads. Now, it’s releasing its first ever Safety Report, which offers some more detail on the procedures and technology it uses to ensure safety in deploying its autonomous fleet. The 42 page… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch
