June 2010
Fresh off moderating a panel of entrepreneurs at Big Omaha, I spoke with David Hauser about his impressions of the event and the Midwest. David, a Boston resident, is the co-founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs.
He was in Omaha for the first time to participate not only as ...
May 2010
Intro
In this episode, I’m chatting with David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper, a Boston based company that provides a virtual phone system for entrepreneurs. If you can’t see the video, please click here. The music featured during the intro and credits of this episode is a song ...
May 2010
Entrepreneurs are on their way to tweeting themselves to an official day in their honor. At least that’s the hope of a Twitter petition launched May 11 to persuade President Obama to declare March 20, 2011 the first annual National Entrepreneurs’ Day.
David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, ...
May 2010
In an effort to recognize entrepreneurs’ contributions to the nation, the co-founders of Grasshopper.com have started a public petition to create an official National Entrepreneurs’ Day.
The online petition is addressed to President Obama, asking him to make March 20, 2011, the first ...
April 2010
I got into numerous arguments with people recently when I insisted that you can build sizable companies by bootstrapping (See “ Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail”). Well, here are some Software-as-a-Service ventures that are steadily gaining critical mass. Many of them will create ...
April 2010
To say Jonathan Kay, Ambassador of Buzz for Grasshopper.com, is passionate about Brand Loyalists would be an understatement. This week, I’m lucky to be joined by Jonathan as he presents a compelling case for why Brand Loyalists are critically important to your business and shares two proven ...
April 2010
Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser are both serial entreprenuers and co-founders of Grasshopper, which offers advanced phone capabilites to small businesses. Siamak oversees the strategic direction of Grasshopper and serves as the company’s brand visionary while David oversees the ...
April 2010
Grasshopper.com is next in our Doing Sales Right series. Grasshopper is a virtual phone system for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Their online prowess is fairly well known in the blogosphere. They did a major rebrand by shipping 5,000 chocolate covered grasshoppers (truly ...
March 2010
Guest Post – Jonathan Kay is the Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper, a provider of virtual phone systems. He is extremely passionate about helping / meeting new entrepreneurs and always excited to learn about their unique journey. Find Jonathan on Twitter @GrasshopperBuzz or via email at ...
March 2010
Siamak Taghaddos is one of the youngest CEOs to be named to Inc.’s List of 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. He’s been Featured on CNN as part of the series “Young People Who Rock”, Businessweek as One of “Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 25”, American Venture Magazine as ...
March 2010
David Hauser co-founded Grasshopper.com with Siamak Taghaddos in 2003. David is the Chief Technology Officer at Grasshopper.com amongst many other responsibilities such as managing operations and corporate culture. He started Grasshopper.com while a senior at Babson College where he ...
March 2010
30 years ago if you knew everything there was to know about a computer, you were a geek or a nerd. Computer geeks Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs changed the world. They gave us a computer on every desktop, shopping at our fingertips, and mobile entertainment and ...
March 2010
This morning’s roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web:
Today The Wall Street Journal and VentureSource unveiled a list of the top 50 venture-backed companies in the U.S. with the greatest potential. Undeniably a list of this sort is bound to generate ...
March 2010
Let’s hear it for the new dorks. It wasn’t too long ago that being a dork meant you weren’t cool. Oh how times have changed. A new generation of geeky entrepreneurs are setting the standards for business and the world we live in—they are the trendsetters. So it’s only fitting that they’re ...
March 2010
Remember the Pantless Knights of “I’m on a Mac” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “The New Dork,” a parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” that pays tribute to social media adherents and hipsters alike.
With shoutouts to Zuckerberg, ...
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