Vodka, my kind of new venture!
I drank vodka last night. I love vodka. So do a lot of people. But there are so many vodka brands on the shelf these days it’s hard to know which ones are really good or are just pretty bottles. This is why Noah Cohen and his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...