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8 followers
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14 companies followed
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Mitch Lowe
Founding Partner, Greenstart
San Francisco,
California,
United States
Business owner, Investor
Member since May 22, 2011
VEQ: TM-TL-FR
Investor interests
| Investments made | Quirky, FeeFighters, Greenleaf |
| Credentials | Accredited Investor |
I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Jumpstart Automotive Media
Startups I worked for:
Quirky, Jumpstart Automotive Media, OpenAuto
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
Love the mix of audacity, passion and creativity. Always energizing and never boring.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Not putting enough focus on hiring extraordinary people
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Hire well
2. Get culture right
3. Prioritize brutally
Full bio
Mitch Lowe brings more than 15 years experience as a founder, CEO, angel investor, startup mentor and board member. Mitch founded his first company at age 23 and was employee number two at consumer Internet startup OpenAuto in 1999. In 2001, he founded Jumpstart Automotive Media and was CEO until February 2009, seeing it from pre-revenue to more than $50 million, and from two employees to more than one hundred. In 2007, Jumpstart sold to HFMUS, and in 2009 Mitch invested in and became board chairman at Quirky, a social product development startup based in New York City.
