&growwithlesacommunity

Grow with Lesa

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A community for founders and entrepreneurs focused on growth. Lesa Mitchell has spent decades building networks for entrepreneurs, through the Kauffman Foundation, Techstars Kansas City and Alloy Partners. Join to meet founders, mentors, board members and investors, and ask the community for the introduction or advice you need next.

“Who here has started a company before?”

A few people in this community have published about this. &james.whitfieldhas written about starting her first company and &maya.okafor spoke about his kickstarter campaign last fall.

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  • Maya Okafor &maya.okafor · Kansas City, MO
  • James Whitfield &james.whitfield · Overland Park, KS
  • Priya Raman &priya.raman · Lawrence, KS
  • Marcus Bell &marcus.bell · St. Louis, MO
  • Sofia Delgado &sofia.delgado · Omaha, NE
  • Tom Lindqvist &tom.lindqvist · Indianapolis, IN
  • Aisha Grant &aisha.grant · Wichita, KS
  • Ryan Cho &ryan.cho · Des Moines, IA

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Control how you’re known in &growwithlesa and beyond.

Your &tag starts private. Nothing on it is public, and nothing on it reaches Lesa's Entrepreneurial Community’s answers, until you publish it. Publishing makes everything on it public, so first remove anything you’d rather keep private.

Hands free identity builder.

If someone googled your name, what would they find?

&® kick starts your identity through public information found online, resulting in signals for you to approve.

The & app building an identity from public information
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Pick what stays.

Not everything on the internet is accurate or relevant.

That’s why &® gives you the ability to add, edit, or delete signals any time in the app.

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Tell your story.

Biography and bibliography tools make it easy for you to control your story. You curate how people understand where you’ve been and what moves you.

A biography and a bibliography in the & app
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