IRL Meet Ups and Unclaimed $$
Hi everyone!
Diana here, I recently joined Huddle as Head of Community. Nice to meet you all 🙂
A couple of things: We had our first URL to IRL Huddle Dinner the Thursday before last, which led to some wonderful new connections between creators, founders, and investors. Let us know if you're in NYC so we can invite you to a gathering! (In the future we plan on having meet-ups in LA and MIA too!)
At dinner, our new Huddler Erica Heinz taught us that many people have unclaimed money just sitting around... I found $200 unclaimed in TX from five years ago. No joke. Check out if you have some $$ waiting for you here.
We also asked each dinner guest to answer the question, "When is a time in business when you thought everything was going to blow up and then you managed to turn it around?"
We got some hilarious answers, to say the least. DM me if you want to know mine 👀 we were sworn to secrecy for the rest...
Creator Spotlight 🎉
This week, we're spotlighting Calum Handley:
📍New Zealand —> NYC.
Previous multiple-time founder with a Fortune 500 advertising agency background (and not to mention, a kind person)!
Calum has been consulting and helping entrepreneurs and early-stage companies for a few years now. Before all this, he started his own company and got funded (!) and then folded it—it was the number 1 Kickstarter of all time. Calum loves this type of story because he believes it shows what entrepreneurship is all about. He also built an advertising agency, which he sold.
Through Huddle, he is now working on Talk Social, which is a platform looking to change the face of online engagement, and Dentures Today, which provides affordable dentures directly to you in just a few days using the latest in digital healthcare technology!
Calum and the Huddle creative community supported Denture’s Today with business model shifts, pitch deck and positioning help, rebranding and more. The ultimate outcome was securing a fresh round of capital for growth. We couldn’t be happier to be part of the Denture’s Today team and we’re excited about what the next year will bring 🎉
Ever the superhuman, Calum is ALSO building his own start-up in the addiction space, We the Village, focused on helping family members and friends who have loved ones suffering from addiction get the knowledge, skills and support they need.
Drop Calum a DM in Slack if you want to learn more!
Until next time!
Diana
Head of Community @ Huddle