Field of Dreams was right with the whole, “If you build it they will come,” thing. If you’re building a tech nonprofit product that will (hopefully… scratch that – definitely!) amass a large user base, be prepared for those users to come running with support
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Heejae Lim, founder of TalkingPoints (FFWD 2015) embodies what it means to be a global citizen. Born in Seoul, Korea, Heejae and her family immigrated to the UK when she was eight years old. Years later, Heejae moved across the globe to the US. Her
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Drumroll, please! We’re ecstatic to unveil our new look, which brings our entrepreneurs front and center, and better embodies the work we do at Fast Forward. The website redesign is much more than a cosmetic revamp for us, it’s a significant growth milestone and the
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This is the sixth feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting Online SOS, a platform that connects victims of harassment to resources and support. “If you don’t return my calls, I’ll release your photos.” “You have no idea who you’re dealing with. I’ll find
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For any start-up, fundraising is a critical aspect of day-to-day operations. But figuring out how to raise money is also often one of the most stressful, confusing, and frustrating processes founders deal with. Luckily for our accelerator cohort, we were able to bring in two
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Rey Faustino, Founder and CEO of One Degree, is an incredible social entrepreneur as well as an alum of Fast Forward’s very first accelerator cohort. One Degree is like a Yelp for social services: it digitizes critical community resources, enabling anyone to search, comment, save,
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This is the third feature in our 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting MindRight, which provides proactive SMS-based mental health coaching to inner-city youth. In inner-city neighborhoods, one in four youth witnesses a murder before they turn seventeen. One third of those young people go on to
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On BlackRock accelerator day 2, we had the fortune of having Singapore-based Su Yuen Chin, Co-Founder and CEO of MomoCentral, come speak to our cohort. Su Yuen is an expert in product development and managing a remote, global product team, as her company employs 40
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We often talk about how difficult it is to be a tech nonprofit founder, and for-profit startup founders face many of the same challenges. The entrepreneurial path is never easy. For the past two years our partner BlackRock has graciously brought in Bo Lu, Founder
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This is the second post in Fast Forward’s 2017 entrepreneur series, highlighting the stories of this year’s cohort. Get to know Concrn. If you live in San Francisco or have spent enough time in the city, the following scene is probably familiar to you. You’re
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