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May we ask a question? Are you a Framebridge groupie yet? We're partnering with the fantastic company on this glorious ep—and an event at their Park Slope store from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 3, with 15% off! Which is all to say: If you're not already hooked, you're about to be. Behold, CEO Susan Tynan's Thingies, your family-photo anxieties, and how what we're hanging on our walls offers a lens into ~the culture~.Susan's Thingies include egg rolls in a bowl, Athletic Brewing Run Wild IPA, Pomela Casa mugs, the Marrakesh frame from Framebridge, Caroline's Cakes 7-Layer Cakes, and the Spoonful of Comfort Thinking of You Package. The Framebridge gallery wall sets = a stroke of genius.If you're commissioning illustrations for future framing, we love the work of Julie Houts and Olivia de Recat.What are your framing conundrums? How have you taken ownership over your own bday happiness? Share with us at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or @athingortwohq—and chat it up about anything at all in our Geneva!Come join us for the easiest, most stylish framing at Framebridge Park Slope this Sat., 2/3, from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. and get 15% off (a very rare discount!). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Great business leaders are problem solvers. That's what sparked Susan Tynan (Harvard Business School MBA 2003) to found Framebridge, a custom framing company. When Tynan couldn't find a reasonably priced place to frame her beloved posters, she launched a business, which took off after years of hard work – and hard decisions. Tynan reflects on her learning journey, discussing how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact.
Susan Tynan is the founder and CEO of Framebridge, the company that has revolutionized custom framing. Before founding Framebridge in 2014, Tynan held product and business development roles at several consumer technology startups, including LivingSocial, Taxi Magic and Revolution Health. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School, she began her career […] The post Susan Tynan with Framebridge appeared first on Business RadioX ®.
For founder Susan Tynan, the MVP version of Framebridge had to be maximum, not minimum. If they wanted people to feel confident sending invaluable art and artifacts for custom framing, there was no way around it. They had to launch knowing that they could get it all right the first time. Getting it right the first time meant building out a full factory, several rounds of fundraising, and most recently, launching two retail stores in their home city, Washington D.C.Listen in to hear how Susan sweated the details to build confidence through experience and how she's reverting back from her tech instincts to get to the root of efficient manufacturing.Find more links and images from this episode on the Lumi blog.
If you enjoy When to Jump, you'll love this new podcast from Inc. called the Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel. You'll hear from top technology entrepreneurs who'll give you the knowledge, tools, and inspiration needed to build a company that thrives. Listen to this episode with Susan Tynan, founder of Framebridge, on how she went from working in government to tech. Subscribe to Inc. Founders Project wherever you listen to podcasts.
This whole episode is about happy stuff and the importance of surrounding yourself with it. This week happiness showed up in full force at a wedding where all three kids were IN the ceremony (please Lord hear my prayer). It also meant indulging in a good show with friends and watching insanely talented acrobats touch the sky and our hearts.Then there was the heart to heart with a mom who was so frustrated with the outrageous cost to frame anything that she found a cheaper way to do it. She followed her gut and soon met a demand that turned her startup business into a multi-million dollar company. Listen as Framebridge CEO and founder Susan Tynan shares her best advice and biggest regret. She also shows us how easy it is to start getting your fave Summer memories off your phone and into your life.
Susan started Framebridge out of a personal paint point: she tried to frame a series of National Parks posters and realized the process was both confusing and expensive. With $82 million in funding and a major facility in Kentucky, Framebridge has fundamentally transformed the experience for consumers across the country. Susan shares why she always does the hard thing first, the challenge of managing seasonal spikes in business, and how she doesn't waste time on guilt as a working parent.
Today’s guest identified a retail opportunity that no one else saw – an opportunity to disrupt and grow the custom framing industry by focusing on the customer experience – and then she made the entrepreneurial plunge. In this episode, Susan Tynan shares her experience founding Framebridge, how the company can offer a great product at a lower price point, why it is opening physical retail locations after five years as an online business, and her advice for other aspiring entrepreneurs. Learn more at retailgetsreal.com.
Susan Tynan's experience in the ephemeral e-market of LivingSocial made her want to start a business that she could touch and feel. After being charged $1600 to frame four posters at her local framing store, she decided to create a mail-order framing company that offers fewer designs at lower prices. Framebridge is now five years old and still feeling growing pains, but is slowly reshaping the rules of a rigid industry. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Len Testa, who created an app that uses real-time data to help people avoid long lines at Orlando area theme parks. (Original broadcast date: November 27, 2017)
Since founding Framebridge in 2014, Susan Tynan has raised more than $67 million in funding for her company. How did she do it? By learning at every step of the way and learning to trust her own instincts. Anna sat down with Susan on stage to talk about the specific lessons she's learned from launching her own startup, how to get over the hump in starting your own business, and what it's like to be a professional woman pitching mostly wealthy, white, male investors.
All of our guests have changed careers at some point, but Susan Tynan's path took several different turns on her way to raising $67 million in venture financing for Framebridge, a quick and affordable custom framing site. The founder and CEO, a Harvard Business School graduate, shares advice on how to accept "no" in your career, how to run a business ethically, and how to lift women up.
Ethan Appleby sites down with Susan Tynan, founder and CEO of Framebridge, to delve into the custom framing industry. Framebridge saves time and their technology allows customers to personalize their framing experience. What people chose to frame reveals what they care about keeping and displaying, and in this way Framebridge is able to see cultural shifts as they occur. In this episode, State of the Art hears about why when launching a framing company Susan felt she had to go big from the beginning, how the definition of art is changing, and what advice her multifaceted experience enables her to give to burgeoning entrepreneurs. -About Framebridge-Framebridge is taking over the custom framing industry. CEO and Founder Susan Tynan founded Framebridge in 2014 after experiencing personal frustration with framing several prints, and has since grown Framebridge to over 150 employees between their office in Georgetown and two production facilities. Built to save both time and expense, while providing a custom, personal experience, Framebridge combines the best of the online and offline framing experience. Find out more about framing your artwork at Framebridge. -About Susan Tynan-CEO Susan Tynan founded Frambridge in 2014 after being dissatisfied with her own custom framing experience. After receiving her MBA from Harvard, Susan worked with Accenture, Living Social, TaxiMagic, and the White House under President Obama. Her multifaceted career has been characterized by inspiring resilience and self-confidence. She has been featured in publications including Business Insider and Forbes. Check out Susan Tynan on Twitter @susanrtynan - About Vango Studio - Vango Studio makes the entrepreneurial side of being an artist easy and efficient, saving artists an average of 4 hours per week. In addition to powering artists with an award winning marketplace, we offer artists the ability to create their own website with little to no maintenance, distribute work across platforms, and access detailed insights about their collectors and what is selling across platforms. Follow Vango on Instagram @vango and @art, and visit www.vangoart.co .Tags: #custom #frame #framebridge #susantynan #framing #art #sota #stateoftheart #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #startup #artandtech #personalize #tech
Susan Tynan's experience in the ephemeral e-market of LivingSocial made her want to start a business that she could touch and feel. She got her idea after experiencing sticker shock at her local framing store: she was charged $1600 to frame four cheap posters and figured there had to be a better way. So she created a mail-order framing company that offers fewer designs at much lower prices. Framebridge is now three years old and still feeling growing pains, but is slowly reshaping the rules of a rigid industry. PLUS for our postscript "How You Built That," how Alexander Van Dewark created a portable mat that helps people mix cement without a wheelbarrow or a paddle.
Susan Tynan and Jenna discuss how Framebridge is making framing as simple and cost-effective as it's ever been and the team's goal to give everyone who sees something beautiful the opportunity to relive the moment. Susan discusses the scaling challenges of distinguishing what you will never change and what you have to change in order to grow. At Framebridge one value always reigns: “Each one is the only one — because for our customers it is.” We chat about how Framebridge navigated blowing past an early Father's Day promotion and dug out of going from a 48-hour turn around to a 15-day turn around. Susan also shares how she utilizes the military OODA loop — Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — to make decisions quickly, why she always asks everyone for their opinion, and tips to context switch from high-level strategy discussions to granular details.