Opportunity Pattern Recognition | John E Richards | EP 100

About the guest:

John E. Richards is an entrepreneur, venture investor, mentor, and educator.

His endeavors involve founding, operating, managing, selling, and investing in enterprises. Though he is a generalist, he mentors entrepreneurs frequently in software, Internet, mobile, blockchain, and consumer products.

Most recently, he founded and is managing partner of Startup Ignition Ventures, a pre-seed venture fund, a natural extension of his well-known Startup Ignition entrepreneur BootCamp.

Early in his career, he was president of a yellow pages publishing company and later created the first-ever online yellow pages that led to an initial public offering and a multi-billion-dollar valuation as part of InfoSpace, Inc.

He also served as Google Fiber’s Head of Operations when Google entered the Utah market. John spent over a decade teaching entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he helped the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology to global prominence and top rankings.

John is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events.

He has been listed as one of the Top 25 entrepreneurial educators in the United States.

He was managing partner of Utah Angels, a venture investing group.

He co-founded BoomStartup, a leading tech seed accelerator.

John and his family reside in Utah.

He can be reached via: startupignition.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrichards/

[email protected]

About the Host:

Ross Stockdale is a Fractional CMO, marketing consultant, and business owner.

Thunder Stock Marketing helps small business owners profitably scale their business.

By leveraging a fractional CMO, SMB owners in the B2B service space can profitably scale and grow without the cost and commitment of a full-time CMO or the hassle of working with marketing agencies.

Visit my website at: https://thunderstockmarketing.com/

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