Brent Freeman
San Francisco, California, United States
4K followers
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Experience & Education
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Stealth Venture Labs
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Licenses & Certifications
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MAP Management System
Management Action Programs
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Volunteer Experience
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Board Chair Bay Area
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
- Present 4 years 1 month
Education
NFTE is an award-winning education nonprofit that activates the entrepreneurial mindset in young people. NFTE's Entrepreneurship Pathway program integrates the development of an entrepreneurial mindset with academic and industry skills to ensure NFTE youth are career- and startup-ready. Research shows that the entrepreneurial mindset—skills and behaviors including innovation, self-reliance, communication, problem-solving, and comfort with risk—prepares young people for lifelong success…
NFTE is an award-winning education nonprofit that activates the entrepreneurial mindset in young people. NFTE's Entrepreneurship Pathway program integrates the development of an entrepreneurial mindset with academic and industry skills to ensure NFTE youth are career- and startup-ready. Research shows that the entrepreneurial mindset—skills and behaviors including innovation, self-reliance, communication, problem-solving, and comfort with risk—prepares young people for lifelong success. Equipped with the mindset, as well as the business and academic skills that NFTE teaches, students are ready to thrive in the innovation economy no matter what path they choose. Through its nationwide network of program offices, NFTE programs have reached more than a million young people across the U.S.
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Mentor
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
- Present 14 years 7 months
Education
Helping mentor low-income, at-risk high school students to understand the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and how to use business to create a social impact in the world.
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Founder
Roozt Mission: Possible
- 4 years 8 months
Education
As a part of the Roozt.com mission, we founded a social enterprise teaching program in partnership with the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Los Angeles to harness and modify their business planning process to help teach low-income high school kids how to solve social problems through entrepreneurship. We taught over 250 kids over 4 years how to use business to create positive social change in their communities, environment and or humanity as a whole.
Publications
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6 Tangible Steps to Launch an MVP Product
Entrepreneur.com
See publicationA lackluster response from potential customers doesn't mean you've failed -- it just means you've succeeded at understanding what the market doesn't want.
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5 Steps to Stop Spending Yourself Out of Survival
Startups.co
See publicationThe availability of cash and the level of operational risk will have a dramatic impact on every level of your business, whether it’s an everyday task or a long-term prospect.
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Don't Jump Too Soon: How to Properly Pace Business Growth
Young Upstarts
See publicationDespite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth. In fact, expanding too quickly can be just as dangerous as not growing at all.
Companies that put their noses ahead of their skis in a quest for glory often lose balance and fall flat. To maintain stability, you have to update your operating procedures, processes, and people as your organization develops. -
5 Criteria to Master Before Launching an MVP
Entrepreneur.com
See publicationTime and money: They're the two barriers keeping you from testing your amazing business idea, right? Wrong.
In the ecommerce world, entrepreneurs and business leaders alike can develop a minimum viable product to test the worth of their offerings without hemorrhaging either time or money. -
3 Ways to Inject Cause Into Your Company’s DNA
Startups.co
See publicationIt’s possible to both make a difference and make a buck. Believing in the company cause is more than just words, however. It’s about embedding it at every level of the organization so everyone — from your employees to your consumers — buys in.
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4 Signs That Outsourcing Can Be Your Startup's Best Friend
Entrepreneur.com
See publicationRead the next line carefully if you’re running a startup or any business: Time is your enemy, and you’re not nearly as good at everything as you think you are. Even if you are that talented, there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do it all.
Languages
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Italian
Professional working proficiency
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
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