Making 🗺️ Mapquest: Chris Heivly on Building the Fort 🏰

Our guest, Chris Heivly, talks about his experience starting MapQuest and compares starting a company as an adult to building a fort in the woods as a kid. He also shares lessons he has learned as he has become a mentor for many other start up companies. Chris Heivly is an accomplished executive in the information-technology sector with proven experience in marketing, sales, business development, investment finance, and operations. He was a co-founder of MapQuest (sold to AOL for $1.2B), a managing director of 77 Capital (a $25 million venture fund) and has been an executive at five other companies. Key Takeaways Channel your inner 10 year old when approaching creating anything How to start and scale startup communities in nascent cities Starting will eventually create a path to work on so stop talking about ideas and work on them How Mapquest came to be His new book Build the Fort Purchase Chris' Book, Build the Fort The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Build-Fort-Startup-Community-Builders/dp/1544542607