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	Podcast:		Successful Nonprofits Podcast
	Episode:		The Government Does the Talking, Your Nonprofit Does the Walking, and Other Lessons from Evan Marwell, Founder of EducationSuperHighway
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:44:47
	Publish Date:		2019-06-18 07:43:24
	Description:		Dolph talks with Evan Marwell, successful serial entrepreneur, about his move into the nonprofit world with the creation of EducationSuperHighway. Evan compares and contrasts his experiences starting for-profit companies with the startup of a nonprofit organization. ***Timestamped Highlights*** (2:20) The wifi problem that launched EducationSuperHighway (4:30) F.E. #1 – Learning from Bold Endeavors by Felix Rohatyn (6:00) F.E. #2 – Expanding a school’s bandwidth for technology (7:45) F.E. #3 – Bringing the tech issue center stage (White House) (9:35) America’s CTO lets Evan in on a government secret (shhh!) (12:23) How Evan ran his nonprofit like a startup (18:42) A project-oriented team is KEY! (20:56) Gauging commitment to allocate tasks (22:24) Working with a sense of urgency (23:25) You MUST recruit the people that are invested in your mission (25:39) A Big Bold & Finite Goal: Go out of business by 2020 (28:25) Preaching “planned obsolescence” to avoid mission creep (35:15) Evan’s entrepreneurial advice (38:49) “It’s better to be lucky than smart” Links: Bold Endeavors: https://www.amazon.com/Bold-Endeavors-Government-America-Rebuild/dp/1416533133 2019: State of the State Report: www.educationsuperhighway.org Be in the know about bandwidth: www.compareandconnectk12.org
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