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On today's episode, Jeff interviews Donte and Dominic Morris. The brothers started their own application called Hoop Maps that strives to help everyone find fun pickup basketball games. The brothers talk about their experiences with growing the business, pitching their idea to Shark Tank, and how it felt being featured on ESPN as well as working with Ice Cube. In the second segment of the show, Jeff, Jared, and Andrew talk about the things that make the mad, specific tweets, as well as a little NFL action.
Freddie Silveria (:40)Chris Saizan (4:00)Dominic and Donte Morris from Hoopmaps (8:00)Nicole McKeever (10:00)Spencer Stone (11:45)Scott Moak (12:15)John Adair (15:30)Traci Rockefeller Cusack (17:30)Ginger Elizabeth Hahn (18:00)Jason Woods (21:30)David Sobon (22:30)Will Thompson (25:45)Taro Arai (27:30)Pedro Rivera (28:30)Aaron Marchand (32:00)Rachel Smith (33:00)Joe Khalil (35:00)Dr. Sam (39:00)Bryan Carter (47:30)Brandon and Jennifer Robinson (50:00)Steve Hansen (53:30)
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I first heard about HoopMaps, a mobile app that allows people to find pickup games in their area, in 2017 when I saw them pitch at a Kings Capitalize event. I loved the idea, along with the passion that co-founding twin brothers Donte and Dominic Morris brought to their startup venture. Over the course of […]
Dominic and Donte Morris are twin brothers and co-founders of the popular mobile app "Hoopmaps." Born out of Oakland, California, the brothers attended Sac State, and the experiences there shaped the rest of the career (1:00). Find out how starting a softball league with flyers turned into Hoopmaps (8:45), how they built the app (10:30), when the found out they were on Sportscenter (13:30), going on Shark Tank (19:00), why Sacramento is a great city for business (28:30) and more in this episode.
In episode four of The Millennial Wayve I sit down with the Founders of HoopMaps, Dominic and Donte Morris. They've been featured in places like Tech Crunch, ESPN and ABC's Shark Tank. We talk all about the "need to know" of building a successful start up, how they went viral when first creating their app, mindset hacks and of course, their experience on Shark Tank.
Inspired by Victor Patton’s recent article in the Sacramento Business Journal on diversity, I had the idea to organize a roundtable discussion on diversity for the StartupSac podcast. The main purpose in my mind was to get a group of Black entrepreneurs together in the studio to discuss the issue of diversity from their perspective […]
This week on YBO... listen as we discuss a recent Milwaukee abduction attempt, sex trafficking, and the importance of being safe and aware of your surroundings. We get into "Am I Wrong?" and Question Of The Week, sharing the answers that we got from social media. Keeping up with the latest news, we touch on an app created by two black brothers called, “Hoop Maps”, SoundCloud dying and possibly being saved, the recent Maia Campbell videos, Kodak Black comments about black women, Jay Z’s “4:44” footnotes and self love. When it comes to friendships we debate why men don't look out for their friends the way women do. This topic definitely had us going back and forth defending our ways. We close the show with our Quote, Empowerment, and Question of the Week. ybopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: ybopodcastmke Twitter: ybopodcastmke Facebook: Young Black & Opinionated
Twin brothers Dominic and Donte Morris wanted a better way to find pickup basketball games. Being entrepreneurial-minded they created a mobile app called Hoop Maps that allows users to find pickup basketball games near them. It’s an app that is already getting some pretty impressive media attention. I met up with Donte and Dominic in the podcast studio of […]