#34 Focus on the Things You Have Control Over: Gina Bianchini, Founder/CEO of Mightybell

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Gina Bianchini is the Founder and CEO of Mightybell, a platform that enables you to build a community and a business on your own branded mobile apps. She is also the co-founder of Sheryl Sandberg’s leanin.org, an online community dedicated to supporting women’s career development. Bianchini has been featured as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40”, Huffington Post’s 10 Technology Ultimate Game Changers, and more. Bianchini shares the lessons learned from her first couple of startups, how that experience shaped the founding and development of her current startup, Mightybell, why there’s a real need for another social network, and her takeaways for founders raising capital.

Show Notes

Mightybell

Sheryl Sandberg Launches ‘Lean In’ Organization As A Global Community For Workplace Equality by Colleen Taylor, TechCrunch

Airbnb, #BlackLivesMatter and the Secret Behind the Most Successful Movements by Gina Bianchini, LinkedIn

Building Better Social Networks: Beyond Likes, Follows and Hashtags by Gina Bianchini, LinkedIn

How’s Mightybell different from Facebook groups? Quora

Mightybell Wants To Help Businesses Build Mobile Communities by Leena Rao, Fortune

What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A by Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital

Glam Buys Ning for $150M, Andreessen Joins Board by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.