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b'Do you fantasize about entrepreneurship? About starting your own business? But stop short of taking the leap? What if you could crack the entrepreneurship code and increase your chances of a safe landing?
Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner as she welcome serial entrepreneur Chris Heivly who shares the key to entrepreneurial success.
DISCOVER:\\xa0

* How Mapquest went from startup to a $1.2 billion exit.\\xa0


* The role of fear in entrepreneurship.\\xa0


* The entrepreneurship CEO trap.\\xa0


* The single most important key to cracking the entrepreneurship code.\\xa0


* Why short-term thinking is a startup\\u2019s best friend.\\xa0


* Where most startups waste the most time.\\xa0


* How to transition from a corporate job to entrepreneurship.\\xa0


* And much MORE.

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Chris Heivly is one of the leading experts in how to build startups that grow into multimillion dollar companies. In some circles has even been called the Startup Whisperer.
He has both large and small business experience, working at the highest level for giants as Rand McNally and Accenture, and then being a co-founder of a startup called Mapquest that he eventually sold to AOL for $1.2 billion. How\\u2019s that for the American Dream?
During the go-go Internet boom of the 1990\\u2019s he was a venture capitalist for a few years. It might make you might think his career path has been an express elevator to the top. But that\\u2019s not really the case, Chris says he\\u2019s been fired or laid off four times during his career and reinvented himself just as many. He\\u2019s definitely resilient!
Today, Chris is one of two managing directors at The Startup Factory. It\\u2019s the largest seed investment firm in the Southeast, located in Durham, North Carolina. They have a remarkable track record. More than 60% of The Startup Factory\\u2019s portfolio companies have gone on to raised follow-on capital after they left the accelerator program. That number is more than double the industry average for investment programs of this type.
Besides being an early-stage investor with company-building experience, Chris is also a sought after speaker, he\\u2019s spoken at TEDx and he\\u2019s been seen and heard in the media, being quoted in Forbes, Washington Post and Crain\\u2019s Business Journal, to name a few. Plus, being featured in the TV documentary Startupland.
Chris is an avid writer frequently blogging on his own website, heivly.com, being a contributing Writer for INC.com, and authoring the book Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learn as a 10 Year Old Can Set Yo...'