Building the Fort with Chris Heivly
What do you do when a professor flunks you in freshman English and tells you that you can’t write? If you’re Chris Heivly, you co-found MapQuest, build startup communities around the world, and then write books anyway.
On this episode of Author Hour, Chris joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Build the Fort, his playbook for the economic developers and community builders trying to make their cities better places for entrepreneurs.
Chris shares why all the work is in the outline, how a foreword from Brad Feld unlocked testimonials from Steve Case and Richard Florida, the early-morning writing…
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