Anthony Lacenere: Propel IT, Bringing Fuel Efficiency to Truckers
What’s worse than having a married couple run an entrepreneurial startup together? Having a married couple who are both entrepreneurs running two startups! Because then both parties are driven entrepreneurs in pursuit of their...
Ricky Yean: Crowdbooster boosts effective social media to new levels
Ricky Yean emigrated from Taiwan to LA with his father at the age of 11. The logic was that the US would be a better place for Ricky. A hard-working kid, Ricky helped support his family financially through after-school jobs, and...
Karina Pikhart, 6dot Innovations: tools that make a difference
One thing I love about the younger generation of entrepreneurs (and maybe this is true of all generations of entrepreneurs?) is that they never do what they are supposed to do. These up-and-coming entrepreneurs are not followers;...
Passion for Food Drives Emily Olson to Foodzie
“I have always loved food,” Emily explains. In college, Emily Olson hung around entrepreneurial-minded friends and focused on finding an outlet for her passion around food. She changed her major from chemistry to nutrition and...
Rahul Vohra: Rapportive live
Rahul Vohra started Rapportive to make beautiful software. Since he was a child, he loved software and always knew that he would build software that many people would use. Rahul and his startup partners in Rapportive want to...
Trevor Owens, Lean Startup Machine
NYU college dropout, Trevor Owens, filled the gap of lack of entrepreneurial training by creating what is now the world’s leading bootcamp on Lean Startup methodologies. Hosted by his startup, Lean Startup Machine, the events are...
Ayan Kishore, Mona Abdel-Halim, Paul Sutcliffe: Resunate.com
People do things for non-obvious reasons. Careerimp is an example of a for-profit company that grew from roots in the non-profit social innovation world. The company’s CEO and founder, Ayan Kishore, went from trying to tackle...
Luke Skurman: College Prowler
It’s back-to-school time. Meet Luke Skurman, founder and CEO of College Prowler, the largest provider of online college content. College Prowler has helped hundreds of thousands of college-bound students pick the right...
Thoughts on CEOs (of early-stage companies
This is the second post in the “Thoughts on…” series addressing practical topics for early-stage entrepreneurs. There are two types of early-stage CEOs. I call them CEOa and CEOb. CEOa is the domain expert with...
Thoughts on boards (directors and advisors for early-stage companies)
This is part of a series I am doing called “Thoughts on… (particular subjects of interest to early-stage entrepreneurs). For an early stage company, a small Board of Directors (BoD) is better. An odd number is...