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Luke Beard is the CEO of Any Distance. A privacy-first Activity Tracking and sharing app, as well as the founder of Exposure. He also takes great photos. In this episode, he and Alex discuss the choice to build an edgy brand, recently raising $1.5M in venture funding, as well as essentials to operating a start up in 2022.Please leave a 5-star review on Apple & Spotify! This episode was edited and produced by Josh Perez.Follow Make Something Cool on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or YouTube.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Youtube.
Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes. — Company Coming Up: This company is out of Mobile, Alabama lead by Walt Armentrout is called HeartLegacy. What started out as a video product for Senior Living Communities to help preserve life stories has morphed into a SaaS platform for businesses to leverage video. They have two different mobile apps, even titled differently for each market. The one for Senior LIving is called RemyGo, and the other for sales teams with over 250 five star reviews on the app store is called SalesMail. Like email but salesmail. This is a tell tale sign of an entrepreneur heads down in one market (senior living) but still keeping a pulse to where another market is pulling. There is probably a wonderful blog post or even book to be written about this pivot and evolution but in the meantime Walt and the team are growing fast and scaling. If you're in sales, check them out. Link in the show notes. Products of Week: AnyDistance: Upcoming this week is the Peachtree Road Race. 50,000 folks brave the heat on the 4th to tackle the city's 10K. Local startup AnyDistance led by Luke Beard is the ideal app to download before the race or your next run. AnyDistance is doing to Strava what Instagram did to your iPhone camera back in 2012. It tracks and records your runs with unparalleled visualization and creative 3D renderings while wrapping the real world rewards ranging from badges to local shop credit. Give it a download today. Event of the Week: Healthcare Entrepreneurship Meetup - A.T. Gimbel of Atlanta Ventures hosts a healthcare entrepreneurship meetup with over 2000 members in it. They had their event this week but I'm mentioning it because it was recorded and 3 companies presented their products and story and they are so good! The event recap and recording link is up on the events page on Atlanta Ventures Companies Worth Applying To: Last week we missed this section so we have three companies ready for you. Fleetio - The darling's darling of Birmingham, Fleetio is hiring for several roles and this is another company worth applying to, lead by Tony Summerville. Fleetio is reshaping fleet management by providing software that manages, tracks, and optimizes all different types of fleets world-wide. The roles open are several, ranging from software development to customer success, ops, and sales. And they just renovated their very slick looking new office. LoadUp - if you're driving north on 75 through Atlanta and get near the West Paces exit, you'll see a big LoadUp billboard on the right hand side as of this recording. Greg Workmon (great name) and his team have modernized junk removal. They are looking for a CTO, CMO, and Head of Operations. Intown Golf Club is in the works to open their second location and is looking for a finance controller. The 12,000 sqft private indoor golf club, right in the heart of Buckhead is expanding its footprint to Charlotte with line of site locations in Philadelphia and DC targeted. Join a fun and fast growing company in the golf industry as they grow! Raise Your Glass: Goodr. Jasmine Crowe of Goodr just raised $8M to feed more and waste less through their technology and logistics solution. Congrats to Jasmine and team on all the great work they are doing! Annnnd, that's 5 minutes. Thank you for listening to Five and Thrive. We provide 5 minutes of quality information, so you can thrive in the upcoming week. Please subscribe to the show and spread the good word! Resources discussed in this episode: Company Coming Up: Heart Legacy Product of the Week: Any Distance Event: Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneurship Meetup Hiring: Fleetio Loadup intown golf club Raise Your Glass: Food waste management startup Goodr raises $8M
Highlights from their conversation include:Luke's background and career journey (2:55)The birth of Exposure (13:49)How Luke started running (18:26)The birth of Any Distance (20:37)Safety and running (26:23)Defining “any distance” (27:18)Why Luke runs (29:19)Not taking running for granted (36:22)Making running fun (39:34)Work and running (42:30)Quick-fire round: turning around for a photo, dream job as a kid, running is ___, one song repeat, toe dip vs cannonball (45:39)Backstage Capital is a VC firm that boasts one of the largest portfolios of underrepresented founders in venture. To learn more about Backstage, visit backstagecapital.com.
Luke Beard is UK-born product designer and photographer currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2013 he founded Exposure - a publishing platform to help individuals and brands create and share their stories visually. We have such a good time chatting about side-projects, growing sustainable businesses, what he looks for when taking photos, why we're attracted to heavier music and where we draw the line between personality and professionalism on social media.
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Another whopper week of news recapped in relatable fashion. Plus I bring wife Brittany on for some parenting talk and Luke Beard makes his pod debut to talk NBA Playoffs.
Luke Beard is a product designer, photographer, and creative director for Exposure, a platform for photographers and visual storytellers. Luke has an awesome story about finding photography and utilizing it as a creative outlet apart from his work in the software design world which in his words "is never finished". He never set out to be an entrepreneur but has found himself in this position and from my perspective is absolutely killing it. It was an absolute awesome chat with someone that has an amazing brain for tech, business, and creativity. Links:Luke Beard on Instagram | Luke Beard on Twitter | Luke's Site | Luke's old site@Junebugkim on instagram | producthunt.comBryan on Instagram | Bryan on TwitterFor the latest updates on the show, follow We The Creators on instagram!
In season one of Atlanta Born & Brand, we talked to three entrepreneurs building tech companies in and around the Atlanta area. Today, we bring back excerpts from each of their stories to provide a glimpse of what it's like to build a tech platform in the city. First, Fred McGill from Simple Showing was our guest on episode 3 of the show. His company is shaking up the real estate space by making buyers less dependent on real estate agents and more able to drive the home buying process. For more information on Simple Showing, visit SimpleShowing.com. Next up is Jody Stephenson from SitterTree. For a lot of people, college is the time where they set the stage for their entire career. Jody was doing just that, but she didn’t necessarily know it yet. On this episode Jody tells us how she built a babysitting business in her college dorm room, and nearly 20 years later has impacted the lives of countless college students and young families all over Atlanta. For more information visit www.sittertree.com. Last for today is Luke Beard from Exposure.co. The company’s website describes exposure as the simple way to create and share your unique photo stories. But as you’ll learn today, while certainly unique, Luke’s path to Atlanta was anything but simple. To start telling your visual stories in an incredibly beautiful manner, check out exposure.co and do what Luke did … start building. Follow the company on social media @exposure, and keep an eye on Luke’s latest photography journey on his instagram, @lukesbeard or www.luke.exposure.co Atlanta Born & Brand is a production of Connext Media. We’re a full-service digital media production company focused on helping small businesses tell their story in the most effective way they can. If you are looking to tell the story of your business, we’d love to help. You can find us at connextatl.com. Stay tuned to the show for more stories from the city’s top startups and small business men & women. You can do that by subscribing in apple podcats, or wherever else you happen to be listening. If you like the show, we’d really appreciate a review and rating. And of course, share it with your friends! Keep up with the show on social media. We’re @atlbornbrand on Instagram and Twitter, and you can also like our Atlanta Born & Brand Facebook page. Finally, you can find all the previous episodes of the show on our website, atlborn.com.
Everybody has a story, and in 2019, a lot of those stories have incredible photography to go with them. But how do we tell those stories, how do we share them effectively with the world? Today, we’re talking to Luke Beard, founder & CEO of Exposure. The company’s website describes exposure as the simple way to create and share your unique photo stories. But as you’ll learn today, while certainly unique, Luke’s path to Atlanta was anything but simple. To start telling your visual stories in an incredibly beautiful manner, check out exposure.co and do what Luke did … start building. Follow the company on social media @exposure, and keep an eye on Luke’s latest photography journey on his instagram, @lukesbeard or www.luke.exposure.co
This week I talk with Luke Beard, Founder of Exposure, a visual storytelling platform! In this episode we talk about moving from a small town in England to San Francisco on a whim, working on products like Hipstamatic, Buffer and Zerply and transitioning from product designer to product founder. Enjoy! - http://founderchats.com - https://exposure.co - https://baremetrics.com
Andrew talks with Kyle Bragger about his path into design, tech, business, and more. Kyle is co-founder and currently running Exposure with Luke Beard. You may also be familiar with some of Kyle's other projects: Forrst, Statshot, or Thinglist.
Cover art by Luke Beard. Track list: Shook (Official) — Tidal (FREE DOWNLOAD) Av.i — Av.i - The Strongest of the Strange (The Strongest of the Strange EP) LUXXURY — I'M NOT IN LOVE (LUXXURY EDIT) Date Night — Oliver Nelson - Found Your Love (Date Night Remix) Dino Soccio — D'Angelo - Betray My Heart (Dino Soccio Rework) Le Boeuf — Warren G - Regulate Ft. Nate Dogg (Le Boeuf Remix)[Download Vocal Version] permanent vacation — Hnny - Most Really Pretty Girls Have Pretty Ugly Feet
Today we caught up with Luke Beard, a designer currently working on building Exposure, a platform for photo stories. We invent a new mathematical formula for success, discuss building businesses vs. companies, talk origin stories and making moves to Silicon Valley, and much more.
Cover art by Luke Beard. Track list (not in order): FRENCH EXPRESS — Chris Malinchak - At Night Spinnin' Deep — Cleavage - Can't Get Enough (Original Mix) The Golden Pony — The Chainsmokers - Let You Go (The Golden Pony Remix) Kiso Armic — Kiso & Aérotique - Every Day (I'm Feeling High)[Free Download] Cut & Dry Records — Akon - Right Now (Figgy Remix) Selected. — DEVI - Pound Cake Zimmer — Zimmer - Escape (ft. Emilie Adams) Nicolas Haelg — Nicolas Haelg - Seduction Magnet (Original Mix) FDVM — Miskeyz - Daylight ft. Hi-Ly (FDVM Remix) FABICH — Fabich, Jetique - Love On My Mind Spinnin' Deep — Redondo & Bolier ft. She Keeps Bees - Every Single Piece (Original Mix) MaLuca — Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) (MaLuca Remix)