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...
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...
Josh Dziabiak and Lynsie Camuso: Showclix
Pittsburgh startup ShowClix is housed in a beautiful office above a coffee house in the hip restaurant and shopping district called Shadyside. The ShowClix conference room sports seal blue walls and white leather conference room...
Jack Abraham: Milo
Milo’s mission is to bring every product, on every shelf, of every store in the physical world onto the internet. Milo was designed to help shoppers find products available at their local brick-and-mortar stores and compare...
Sam Yagan: OkCupid
OkCupid is the fastest growing online dating site. The company employs a math-based matching system. Why? Because the founders were all Harvard math students. All four of them. This is CEO and co-founder Sam Yagan’s third...
Matt Wilkinson: Shoefitr
Have you ever visited Zappos.com? Or any clothing buying site? I love to shop online, but I shop for books, or electronics, or household items. Why? Because a book is a book is a book is a book. If I order Penguin’s “Jane Eyre,”...
Leo Welder: ChooseWhat
Leo Welder created ChooseWhat because he had a problem: “I was in this startup and I wanted to buy online fax services. So I did the research and there were a lot of services. I chose one and signed up. It seemed like a good...