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...
Leading local businesses into the 21st Century: Brett Wiewiora and Onlyin…
Not everybody turns to entrepreneurship because of a business opportunity; some do their own thing because they are driven to do good, to make change, and starting and growing something new is often the best way to accomplish...
Finally finding where he should be, Phil Laboon founded Eyeflow
Some people are just born mavericks. They are not destined to work for others or to fulfill other people’s dreams. Maybe it’s not destiny but just sheer determination. Such a person is Phil Laboon, founder and CEO of Eyeflow...
Product need drives Chris Carlson to entrepreneurship resulting in Gantto
Chris Carlson was not an entrepreneur in his comfortable corporate role. But necessity drove him to it. He needed something in his job at Hansen Medical that didn’t exist. And so he decided to build it himself. Well, not quite...
Women entrepreneurs: Who says we can’t
Why are so few women in technology? Why is it that for every 10 men that I interview for my blog, I struggle to find one technology-oriented entrepreneur who is female? “Maybe women are more risk adverse,” says Deanna Bennett, a...
NIELSEN OF THE DIGITAL AGE: ALEX WHITE AND NEXT BIG SOUND
Obsessed with understanding how bands become famous, Alex White started Next Big Sound to become the Nielsen ratings of the digital age – for music. Next Big Sound provides online music analytics to music industry professionals....