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Pat East is listed as Co-Owner at Darn Good Soup, based in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Pat East.
Pat East previously worked as Executive Director at The Mill and Principal at Flywheel Fund. Pat East holds Ba, English from Wabash College.
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Pat East is Executive Director of The Mill, a nonprofit center for entrepreneurship and coworking. He previously cofounded Hanapin Marketing, which he sold to its largest UK competitor in 2020.
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Executive Director
The Mill is one of Indiana’s premier entrepreneurship centers. Our mission is to launch and accelerate startups and our vision is to become Indiana’s center of gravity for entrepreneurship. We do three things - create, build, and invest - and all our startup and entrepreneurship programming fits into one of those buckets:*Bloomington Remote: remote worker recruitment*Code/IT Academy: code school for the unemployed and underemployed*Crossroads: statewide pitch competition*Flywheel Fund: startup fund*Pre-accelerators: 5 target audiences --> for Indiana University faculty, for IP at Crane (the world’s 3rd largest naval warfare base), for the formerly incarcerated, for Mill members, and for gBETA (Indiana’s premier pre-accelerator)*Velocities: $2.5mm regional partnership The Mill formed with the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce and Elevate Ventures to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in this region
Principal
Flywheel Fund is an investment fund that is part of The Mill’s startup and entrepreneurship programming. We target a) technology startups that are b) pre-seed or seed that are c) located in Indiana. We write $75k initial checks and $100k follow-on checks.For Funds I and II, we made 17 investments in 13 companies. 39% of our capital was deployed into female-founded teams, 41% into minority-founded teams, 18% into Black-founded teams, and 43% into startups from Bloomington.
Ceo
Cofounded one of the first digital advertising agencies with $2000. With no investors and no debt, led the company to 15 of 16 years of profitability and to an acquisition in 2020 to Brainlabs, its largest UK competitor. Started PPC Hero and Hero Conf, the industry’s leading blog and conference respectively.Clients included: American Eagle, Home Depot, La-Z-Boy, NPR, ParkMobile, REI, Salesforce, Target, UCLA, University of Chicago, and Weather Channel. Partners included: Adobe, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter.Notable awards: Inc 5000, America’s Fastest Growing Companies: 2014-2019Indiana’s Best Places to Work: 2013-2019, #1 in 2018Ad Age’s Best Workplaces: 2017-2019Fortune’s Great Places to Work: 2019Inc’s Best Workplaces: 2017-2019
Nov 2013 - Feb 2020
President And Ceo
Feb 2004 - Nov 2013
Adjunct Professor
Introduction to Search Engine and Internet Marketing, taught in The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), a top 10 ranked SLIS program nationally.
Jun 2007 - Jul 2013
Director Of New Product Development
Jun 2001 - Jan 2004
Director Of Author Promotions
Dec 2000 - May 2001
Assistant Director Of Planning & Communication
May 2000 - Nov 2000
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Pat East education
Ba, English
Wabash College
Executive Education, Venture Capital
Stanford University
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Pat East works for Darn Good Soup.
What is Pat East's role at Darn Good Soup?
Pat East is listed as Co-Owner at Darn Good Soup.
Where is Pat East based?
Pat East is based in Bloomington, Indiana, United States while working with Darn Good Soup.
What companies has Pat East worked for?
Pat East has worked for Darn Good Soup, The Mill, Flywheel Fund, Hanapin Marketing, and Indiana University.
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Pat East holds Ba, English from Wabash College.
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