Innovation in speech recognition
“James and Janet Baker, now in their 60s, are computer speech revolutionaries,” wrote The New York Times in an article last July (2012) article about the tragic consequences of the sale of the company, Dragon Systems, Inc.,...
Translation: more, better, faster – with Safaba
Sometimes I get the pleasure of writing about a startup from the very beginning because I was there. Safaba is one example. The two founders, Alon Lavie and Bob Olszewski, came to me for some advice during my stint as embedded...
No time off for busy parent entrepreneurs
Solve a problem that you have. That’s usually good advice to first-time entrepreneurs. And that’s exactly what Angela Conley and Chaz Giles did – they founded MomTrusted because THEY NEEDED CHILDCARE! With two young children, the...
Deanna Bennett and Brett Yates, solving simple real-world problem leads to RentMonitor
Like many new ventures, RentMonitor was founded to solve a real problem. Deanna Bennett, who worked in property management, wanted to pay her rent online. And she wanted to communicate online to her landlord. She knew from her...
Susan and Eric Koger: Modcloth
Eric Koger co- founded and is CEO of Modcloth, the leading vintage and indie clothes site. His high school girlfriend, now his wife, Susan Koger, is his partner and co-founder. This is one couple that works! And there are others...