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Tom Coburn shared thisFor all the parents out there: Waking Up #LastTimeMeditation
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Tom Coburn shared thisAnyone who has been following knows research on psychedelics has really blossomed over the last two decades and there is a lot of interest and potential promise right now. Today, Waking Up is proud to release our first documentary, in partnership with an awesome director, Jake Orthwein. Unraveling The Dream can be viewed for free on youtube. Link below! https://lnkd.in/gmXkfhpGUnraveling the Dream — Psychedelics, Awakening, and the BrainUnraveling the Dream — Psychedelics, Awakening, and the Brain
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Tom Coburn shared thisFor any artists out there who are interested in the intersection between meditation practice and creativity, check out the below videos and landing page from Jules Crommelin of the band Parcels. Jules has been a Waking Up member since 2019 and credits his meditation practice as playing a pivotal role in both his creative process when writing songs and his process of staying in a good head space when on the road touring. Had the chance to see their show last fall at Red Rocks and was blown away!Tom Coburn shared thisA Waking Up member since 2019, Jules Crommelin from Parcels talks music, meditation, and the unknown with a personal essay, exclusive videos, featured resources, and more. https://bit.ly/4sba5uW
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Tom Coburn reposted thisTom Coburn reposted thisThis year, we are offering a new option for applicants to the SSC Venture Partners accelerator: early admission. For the first time since we started running the program in 2014, we're giving motivated candidates the opportunity to have their summer plans (and a $10k investment) locked in by the end of March. The inspiration for this shift is fairly unsurprising if you're familiar with our founding story at SSC. After winning a pitch competition sophomore year, my partner Tom and his teammates were admitted to a summer accelerator program. Up until that point, he'd been focused on going to medical school to become a doctor, but getting to work on Jebbit full-time completely changed that plan. We're on the hunt for founders with the mindset of 2011 Tom Coburn: Ready to take an opportunity to build something real, without needing to hedge. Comfortable taking a bet on themselves. Interested in solving problems. The founders pictured below (and may others in our portfolio!) are great examples of what that mentality looks like irl - all of them came up with their first startup idea before graduating BC, and many of them completed SSC's summer program in the process. We're looking for the next Branick, Jimmy, Pedro, or Katie, too! We've found that teams who would be working on their idea even if they didn't do our program are often the ones who get the most out of it. We don't have to sell them on why it makes sense to spend the summer building a company. This year, we decided to make it easier for that group to opt in. Our deadline for early admission apps this Sunday, March 8 (the last day of BC's spring break). High-conviction aspiring Eagle entrepreneurs welcome! More info + application 🔗 ⤵️
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Tom Coburn shared thisThat time of year again! We're gearing up for another great summer where 5 teams of Boston College student (or alumni!) entrepreneurs will participate in our SSC Venture Partners summer accelerator. The summer comes with funding, office space, accelerator programming, and many connections to the amazing community that is the Boston College entrepreneurship community! Details on the program and application link below.Tom Coburn shared this📣 Calling all early stage Eagle entrepreneurs! The application for this summer's SSC Accelerator is officially live. (🔗 below) We're excited to be offering a new option this year: if you've already decided to go all in on your startup this summer, you can apply for early admission. Teams who complete an application by March 8th will receive a decision by the end of March. We can't wait to get to know our next flock of startup founders and see what the BC community is cooking up! Know a great team we should meet? DM us Christina Quinn Tom Coburn Duncan Walker Peter Bell
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Tom Coburn shared thisGreat opportunity to join the Waking Up team as A Lifecycle Operations Specialist!Tom Coburn shared thisWaking Up is hiring a Lifecycle Operations Specialist! With the Waking Up app, we help people explore the nature of the mind and cultivate a deeper understanding of themselves. Through meditation practices, wisdom lessons, and conversations with world-leading thinkers, we aim to make profound insights accessible to everyone. We’re looking for a highly organized, self-directed person to own the execution of our multi-channel CRM and lifecycle communications. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building, working across tight-knit teams, maintaining complex messaging systems, and is quality-obsessed. https://lnkd.in/gnxs5ePXLifecycle Operations Specialist (Contract) - Waking UpLifecycle Operations Specialist (Contract) - Waking Up
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Tom Coburn shared thisWaking Up is proud to present a short video: Gratitude. Preview below and full video at wakingup.com/gratitude Experience poet David Whyte through composer Mark Guiliana’s lens in this sonic and visual collaboration on gratitude —a meditative exploration of gratitude through word, sound, and image. Mark, known for his mastery behind the drums, steps into the role of composer and filmmaker—bringing David’s beloved poem “Gratitude” to life in an intimate and unexpected way. His original score and personal visuals invite you to slow down, listen, and reflect on what it means to be awake to the gift of life itself. This one-of-a-kind piece is free to view and share—a reminder, especially at this time of year, to pause and notice the quiet abundance already around us.
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Tom Coburn shared thisThe Enjoy Life App is here! For the past 12 years I have sat on the board of an amazing education focused non profit, Enjoy Life Education. As anyone close to me knows, attending the Enjoy Life Academy each summer (a week-long leadership program for teens on college campuses across New England) is one of the most exciting and rewarding weeks of my year. Enjoy Life was founded by my former 8th grade science teacher, Evren Gunduz. As thousands of students have now said, Evren was the best teacher I ever had. Jebbit would have never happened if not for what I learned from him about life and leadership. The biggest request we get from our students every summer is how they can get more of the magic and teachings of Evren and the Enjoy Life Staff throughout the school year (over 90% return each summer for another Academy). The Enjoy Life App is designed to accomplish this goal. While built with our Academy teens and alumni in mind. It's for anyone! In under 4 minutes per day, Evren guides you through 3 daily actions designed to improve your mindset. Check it out at the link below. It's a phenomenal way to support a great non profit and at the same time improve the enjoyment of your own life. We've been beta testing for months and I've loved including it as part of my morning routine. I now do the daily meditation on Waking Up and then switch over and complete my 3 daily actions in the Enjoy Life App. If you check out the app, first, thank you! Second, hit me up with any/all feedback! We want to keep making it better! https://lnkd.in/eyGGEkqv
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Tom Coburn shared thisWe just crossed 100,000 5-star reviews on Waking Up. This isn’t just a number — it’s a reflection of millions of moments people have taken to pause, look inward, and begin again. Every review represents someone who found a bit more clarity, calm, or understanding through the work Sam Harris, our teachers, and the incredible team at Waking Up have put into this app. While I've been a user of the app since 2018, I've only had the privilege of working with this team since January. From product and design to content, marketing, and support — it's an amazing, small, dedicated team who show up every day to make mindfulness more accessible and meaningful for people around the world. To everyone who has joined us on this journey: thank you for helping us reach this milestone. The impact of your presence and feedback continues to shape what we’re building. Here’s to the next 100,000 — and to everyone continuing to wake up, one moment at a time. #WakingUp #Mindfulness #Meditation #Milestone #Gratitude
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Tom Coburn liked thisTom Coburn liked thisA true builder joins the Axum Edge. We're excited to welcome Robyn Glaser to the Axum Capital Partners Advisory Board-and as a strategic advisor focused on expanding and activating the Axum Edge. Robyn is a rare operator whose 25+ year career spans sports, entertainment, technology, media, and principal investing — with a track record of helping organizations navigate pivotal moments, scale intelligently, and create transformational enterprise value. During her 18+ years as a senior executive with The Kraft Group and the New England Patriots, Robyn operated at the center of one of the most iconic organizations in sports during a period in which NFL revenues expanded from less than $1B to greater than $23B and the Patriots franchise grew to $9B+ valuation. Robyn led the New England Patriots through some of the organization's most defining moments, – from enterprise-wide operational restructuring and leadership transition to launching a broadcast-ready Super Bowl streaming studio and navigating some of the highest-profile and most notable periods in modern sports history. Earlier in her career, Robyn helped pioneer the music industry's digital transformation as Worldwide Vice President at EMI Recorded Music's New Media division, helping scale the business from $IM to $100M+ in profit while negotiating investments and partnerships that helped shape the early digital media ecosystem. Robyn also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Pro Athlete Community (PAC), further reflecting her deep connectivity across sports, business, culture, and athlete leadership communities. At Axum, Robyn will help deepen what makes us different: connectivity, access, cultural fluency, and hands-on business building that extends far beyond capital. As we continue engaging with current and prospective partners, additions like Robyn further strengthen the differentiated platform we are building for our LPs – combining disciplined investing with real operational insight, influence, and value creation. This is the Axum Edge - amplified. Welcome to the team, Robyn!
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Tom Coburn liked thisTom Coburn liked thisBig day for the team. Hightouch just announced $150M in Series D funding at a $2.75B valuation, led by Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). I've been in enough deals to know the pattern: marketers have the ideas, but never enough runway to execute. Good campaigns die in the queue. Great segmentation never gets built. Personalization stays a slide in a deck. That's the problem we're solving with the Agentic Marketing Platform, AI agents that handle the research, the creative, the build, and the optimization, so marketing teams can stop coordinating and start deciding. This round is fuel and we're just getting started. 🔥 → https://lnkd.in/gjgbvaAt
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Tom Coburn liked thisTom Coburn liked thisAnother #Strakosch Venture Competition in the books! ❤️ 🦅 💛 I am unendingly impressed by these Boston College students for their creativity, drive, and brilliance. Every single pitch this year was excellent and every company already had meaningful traction in market - high Amazon conversion rates, multiple pilots in flight, validated efficacy by field experts, and more. Absolutely awesome stuff across the teams. To the 🥉Provenance, 🥈ChangeGuard, and 🥇Radar teams, congratulations! Credit as always to the Boston College Shea Center for Entrepreneurship team for putting together a fantastic event under the steady hand of Kelsey (Kinton) Renda! A privilege judging with you Emily Kaiser Christina Quinn and Scott E Carson!
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Tom Coburn liked thisTom Coburn liked thisInvestment banks & PE firms run on Excel. Now they’re starting to run on Provenance. We’re officially being deployed on live deals. For the first time, teams can: → see exactly what changed and why in seconds → understand the impact instantly and catch mistakes early on → review and approve models in minutes without digging through Excel → go back to any decision with full firm-wide context → make AI agents smarter with complete financial context With Provenance, review cycles get cut in half and senior bankers finally have clarity before decisions. There has never been a system of record for financial decisions. Now, as AI agents start operating inside deal workflows, the need for one becomes unavoidable. Rolling this out to a few more firms this quarter. If you work at an investment bank or private equity firm and want to speed up your model review process & prevent mistakes, reach out for a pilot.
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American Business Journal's Upstart 100
American Business Journal Upstart
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/multimedia/slideshows/2016/08/upstart-100-2016-backers.html?ana=lnk
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Improper Bostonian's 25 Under 25
Improper Bostonian
http://www.improper.com/life-style/25-x-25/
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EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Finalist)
Ernst and Young
http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year/NE_Article_finalists
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Forbes 30 Under 30
Forbes
http://www.jebbit.com/blog/jebbits-co-founders-make-forbes-30-30-list/
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Boston's 25 Under 25
Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/business/specials/innovation/hive25_under25/
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