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David Barnhart and the Distance Between K Street and Everywhere Else
He arrived in Washington from a dairy farm and spent three nights sleeping in his car. The founder of LSG has spent the years since bringing people outside the capital into its conversations.
Chptr puts the obituary back in front of the neighbours
A memorial app found a second act on local television. Chptr now sells funeral homes a route from family memories to the evening news - with radio joining the conversation.
Aaron Brossoit Put Small-Town Ambition on the Big Screen
A self-taught web designer from St. Cloud built a career around an unlikely idea: small communities deserve inventive technology and a story worth remembering.
The Little Booth That Became a Marketing Department
American View Productions sells a useful fiction: that a small organization can have a whole marketing department on call. A folding video booth, 73 father stories and one unusually revealing public budget show how the trick works.
Ali Carvalho Built a Social Network for the Stories We Almost Lose
She left corporate strategy to build a place where many small memories could add up to one vivid life. After seven years of experiments, pivots, and community rituals, LifeWeb 360 found a new home inside HistoryIT.
LifeWeb 360 Built a Social Network for the Moment Nobody Wants to Post About - Then Found Its Real Customer
A class project became a gentler alternative to the obituary page, then a surprisingly effective alumni-engagement tool. LifeWeb 360's path from free family memorials to HistoryIT's MemoryPort is a case study in letting the strongest use case rewrite the business.