My guest today is Chris Heivly, Co-Founder of MapQuest and a Venture Partner at Atrium Capital. He serves as Managing Partner at The Startup Factory. He is the founder of the Big Top Job Fair. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Ultimus Software. He served as a Board Member at Momentum. Prior to Ultimus, he was Chairman of Agular Systems after serving as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Before Agular, he served Rand McNally as President and led Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Earlier in his career, he was Vice President of 77 Capital Corporation. 

The topic is his book Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• MapQuest journey
• How AOL became successful
• Evolution of technology
• Financial crisis
• Microstrategy
• Startup success

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