Brian Krausz, GazeHawk
What happens when two really nerdy, smart computer science students meet and decide to do a startup? Meet Brian Krausz and Joe Gershenson, co-founders of GazeHawk, which uses eye tracking technology to analyze online behavior to...
Thoughts on Kauffman Foundation’s Startup Act
Last week, the Kauffman Foundation (our foundation for entrepreneurship) unveiled its Startup Act, a proposal to stimulate entrepreneurship. The Act is designed to spur job growth and make the US more globally competitive. I...
New Venturist company, Ksplice, acquired by Oracle
Yesterday, Thursday July 21, 2o11, Oracle announced that it had acquired featured New Venturist company, Ksplice: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/435791. Great going. Jeff and his team at Ksplice! Ksplice was profiled on...
David Chen: Duostack
Start as a kid. That’s what David Chen did. He started his first business at age 11. He used to bring his dad to business meetings. The client thought this was so cute: “the father brings his son to a business meeting.” The...
Rodrigo Carvalho, Francisco Uribe, & Lukas Bouvrie: BlackLocus
The story of BlackLocus starts with an unlikely beginning: three wantrepreneurs who didn’t know each other and didn’t have an idea. But that didn’t stop them; in fact it’s what got them going. BlackLocus at a Glance...
Bharani Rajakumar & Arthur Tu: LearnBop
Many people want to do good and do well at the same time. Very few people execute on this. The two founders of LearnBop are an exception. And while they may not be there yet, because their company is a startup, they are moving in...
Andrew Butcher & Chris Koch: GTECH Strategies
Sunflower king and queen Chris Koch is not your typical entrepreneur. In fact, she didn’t know what an entrepreneur was or that she was one when she started GTECH with her co-founder, Andrew Butcher. GTECH, a non-profit which...
Start as a Kid
How old do you have to be to start a business? If you are a kid with a business, should you have to have older partners? Will customers take you seriously if you are a kid-run business? How do you know if what you are doing as a...
Jeff Arnold and Waseem Daher: Ksplice
The story of Ksplice starts with four undergraduates at MIT. The students (Jeff Arnold, Ksplice’s CEO; Waseem Daher, COO; Tim Abbott, CTO; and Anders Kaseorg, Chief Architect) were involved in the student computer group and they...
Jess Trybus: Etcetera Edutainment
JJess Trybus founded and has led her industrial gaming company, Etcetera Edutainment, since its inception in 2005. Bear with the long company name; there is meaning behind the title. Etcetera Edutainment at a Glance Entrepreneur:...