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On this episode of More Than Profit, Bryce is talking with Miles Lasater, Founder and CEO of Purpose Built. Purpose Built is a venture studio that partners with future founders, generates ideas together, builds teams, and invests capital to launch new companies. Miles is from San Francisco and was surrounded by entrepreneurs growing up. Miles started his first company, Higher One, when he was in college. From there he went on to start two other startups, SeeClickFix and OneUni. He fell in love with the venture studio model and his goal throughout his career was to eventually start one of his own. Bryce and Miles talk about how the venture studio model works, the qualities of a successful venture, and how social impact fits into it all. Learn more on this episode of More Than Profit, Exploring the Venture Studio Model With Miles Lasater. Miles website: https://mileslasater.com/ Podcast episode with Jeff Zhou of Fig: https://www.startupsforgood.com/jeff-zhou-co-founder-ceo-of-fig/ Startup ideas blog post: https://www.purposebuilt.vc/blog-posts/how-to-have-1044-startup-ideas-in-10-months Podcast episode with Arjan Schutte of Core Innovation Capital: https://www.startupsforgood.com/arjan-schutte-founder-and-managing-partner-of-core-innovation-capital/ More Than Profit is a podcast from Access Ventures and is produced by Render. Host: Bryce Butler Executive Producer, Recording, Editing, and Marketing: Per Nordgren Graphic Design: Olivia Allison Social Media: Mallory Sanborn
City Manager Mark Mitchell talks about the new SeeClickFix program and Richard Brockman talks about what his plans are for the future of the community center.
Steve Machesney, Director of Marketing, SeeClickFix talked with me at the recent Esri User Conference about their innovative app for local governments to interact with members of the community to address issues that need to be taken care of. Their platform uses images with GIS tags to identify the locations of where the problems are along with a smart work flow to better manage citizen requests and help organizations spot trends to determine where more social services are needed as well as support rapid response to natural disasters. SeeClickFix.com
Hall is joined by Miles Lasater of Purpose Built Ventures. Purpose Built Ventures works with driven founders to help build pre/seed companies by providing capital, advice and connections. Miles is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor. He founded Higher One and helped scale it to over $200mil in revenue and public offering. As founder of SeeClickFix and OneUni, he has experience with mission-driven startups. At Yale, he started the Y50k business plan competition, instigated the accelerator for student ventures and served on the selection committee. He also co-created and taught the popular Yale business school course on managing software development. He has invested in and advised dozens of companies at the earliest stages. In this episode, we learn what Purpose Built Ventures is all about as well as their mission as a company. Miles shares what specific criteria his company looks for and his investment thesis is. They invest at the earliest stages in companies working to increase human wellbeing expand economic opportunity and improve the public sphere.
Ben runs SeeClickFix.com which is based in New Haven, CT. A communications platform that lets you report neighborhood issues and see them get fixed. The service makes communities better through transparency, collaboration, and cooperation. Connecting citizens to their local governments. In this episode we talk about how people can use technology to become more human. The difference between "Gentrification" and "Rejuvenation" when it comes to rebuilding cities. How relationships are similar to startups and what it takes to save abandoned towns. I giggle a lot. We talk a lot about Pokemon Go, especially it's positive effects on communities. We even tie in quantum theory with in-app gamification. Figuring out that gamification leads to time acceleration both in apps and in real life. To gamify the podcast, count all the times I say "That's amazing." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/DreamNation/support
The CEO and Co-Founder of SeeClickFix, Ben Berkowitz, joined GovLove to talk about civic technology and innovation. Ben described how the SeeClickFix story started with graffiti and has resulted in over 1,000,000 community members, 300 local governments and 3,000,000 issues fixed. Plus Ben and Kirsten reminiscence about how SeeClickFix helped give birth to the GovLove podcast.
Ben Berkowitz, co-founder of SeeClickFix.com discusses how his app and website is being used in over 300 cities around the world to help people connect more effectively with civic services, and make it a lot easier to report problems and see the progress on the problems being fixed. This is a very bottom-up service that enhances the connection of people and government.
What are the best ways to get direct feedback from the community? Learn more in this podcast episode about how Gilbert, Arizona is using tools such as SeeClickFix, Nextdoor and an interactive open data portal to make it easy for residents to engage with their local municipality. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Host Alisa Bowens-Mercado talks with Josh Wyrtzen from SeeClickFix. To get more info click en.seeclickfix.com/
How are we making public engagement easier & closing the gap with our gov’t officials? Find out in our latest episode with special guest Ben Berkowitz, CEO of SeeClickFix! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ben runs SeeClickFIx.com which is based in New Haven, CT. A communications platform that lets you report neighborhood issues and see them get fixed. Connecting citizens to their local governments. In this episode we talk about how people can use technology to become more human. The difference between "Gentrification" and "Rejuvenation" when it comes to rebuilding cities, and much more.
City officials talk about solving Dogwood, dead animal pickups, and an infamous "Snake" tagger, while also recognizing top-notch public servants.
Rob Smuts, former chief administrative officer of the City of New Haven, speaks about his new role as deputy director of emergency management for the city of San Francisco -- and about privatization, citizen engagement, local democracy, and seawalls.
Livable City Initiative's Evan Trachten and Neighborhood Housing Services' Adam Rawlings join SeeClickFix's Nadine Herring to talk reported New Haven issues
Chief Robert Ferullo, Jr., talks discusses efforts to reboot policing in a difficult age, starting with disputes over parking spaces and finding GPS solutions to trucks clogging narrow residential streets.
Carbondale's Sean E. Henry reveals a world in which taxpayers support a big enough budget to hire 90 public-works employees in a small city to handle garbage collection, lake maintenance, public water and sewage treatment, all in-house.
The parties were getting a bit out of hand at the park in Windsor, Connecticut. Then citizens and the government got on the case.
City Manager Scott Adkins of Roseville, Michigan, talks rogue shopping carts, the "pothole pledge," and middle-of-the-night construction noise.
Raccoons in the road and confusing highway signs -- plus "hanging chad" "gores" -- are the subject as Erick Filkorn of the Vermont Agency of Transportation joins us live on the air.
Malden, Mass., Mayor Gary Christenson and Public Works Director Bobby Knox Jr. weigh on fixing the small problems in their historic society so they don't become big problems.
The Motor City tackles precarious trees, graffiti, and absentee slumlords' blight on the latest edition of WNHH's SeeClickFix radio. Special guest: Amy Sovereign, program management officer of Detroit's Department of Innovation and Technology.
New Haven parks chief Rebecca Bombero and David Flintom, director of St. Petersburg, Florida's, Mayor's Action Center, discuss the challenge of keeping litter out of parks, keeping beehives out of danger, battling mosquitos, and cutting grass.
Carolyn Malone and Michael Jones, officials from Memphis, Tennessee, describe efforts to promote biking and bike lanes and keep after neighbors who don't bring in their trash cans promptly enough after weekly garbage pick-ups.
Andreas Addison, the "civic innovator" of Richmond, Virginia, joins the crew at SeeClickFix Radio for a look at potholes, bulk trash, and roosters.
This week the show visits Gainesville, Florida, to learn about graffiti walls and a campaign to create the world's most citizen-connected city. Translation: "Thank you for complaining!"
Co-host Linh Da was in a biking accident after hitting a pothole. She sustained an injury that required stitches. This is the story of our quest to file a 311 complaint and track it through the City of Los Angeles's open data portal. My guests this episode are Chelsea Ursaner (LA City Open Data Team), Ben Berkowitz (CEO and founder of SeeClickFix), and Russ Klettke (Editor of pothole.info)
SeeClickFix Radio connects with Nadine Herring, citizen of New Haven, CT, and Dave Wilburn of Ann Arbor, MI to talk graffiti, potholes, and civic tech meetups.
SeeClickFix Radio connects with Princeton, NJ to talk about restaurant complaints, snow removal, and sump pump issues.
SeeClickFix Radio connects with Burlington, Vt. to talk about New England's heroin epidemic, snow removal, and other public policy issues.
Ben Berkowitz and Caroline Smith from SeeClickFix connect the WNHH studio to Justin Anderson in South San Francisco, CA, talking about bikes, urban trails, traffic, and illegal dumping.
WNHH host and New Haven Independent editor Paul Bass speaks to Ben Berkowitz and Caroline Smith of SeeClickFix about the site's weekly news. From Houston, Assistant Director, Houston 311, Frank Carmody joins as well.
WNHH's Paul Bass speaks and SeeClickFIx's Ben Berkowitz and Caroline Smith run down the latest citizen-powered news in New Haven, Houston, and Macon-Bibb County, Georgia.
WNHH's Paul Bass pairs up with the team at SeeClickFix to discus citizen contributions in New Haven and beyond. This show features Ethan Hutchings and Kathy Hurley of the City of New Haven.
Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for a panel discussion with leaders of Connecticut's growing entrepreneurial community to explore the challenges and opportunities of building a richer environment for startups. In order to attract and develop successful new ventures, Connecticut is creating a network of organizations that aim to connect entrepreneurs to resources and to accelerate the growth of early stage companies. Featured Speakers Derek Koch - CEO of Independent Software and Manager of the Grid, New Haven's effort to build an innovation hub Tim Coates - Managing Director of CTNEXT, Connecticut's Innovation Ecosystem Casey Pickett - Director of Innovation for the State of Connecticut, Department of Economic and Community Development Moderator Ben Berkowitz - CEO and Co-Founder of SeeClickFix, New Haven grown startup and leader in Gov 2.0 technology