Student entrepreneurs speak out: #2 in a series
CMU senior, Tony Wang, reflects on Inc’s 30 under 30. Entrepreneurs are often thought of as people who don’t accept the current status quo. They are the ones with the ideas and know-how to really change how the world...
John Dick serializes entrepreneurship, live and in person: CivicScience
Here’s another story about an entrepreneur who never thought he would be one until the opportunity slapped him in the face. Then a few years later another opportunity made him jump from his company to a new startup. CivicScience...
Entrepreneurial current events: four bills for entrepreneurship
Four bills favoring entrepreneurship are knocking on the door of approval: The first is a bill passed by the House on November 3 called the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” which allows crowd funding à la Kickstarter. Early...
Demo Day showcases the next entrepreneurial wave in Pittsburgh
Adapted from my new PopCity blog today… As Y Combinator is to Silicon Valley early-stage entrepreneurs, so is AlphaLab to Pittsburgh. We have a thriving early-stage entrepreneurial community, due in no small part to startup...
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...
More Thoughts on Portugal, Raymond Vennare, entrepreneur
I have always believed, if not intuitively understood, that entrepreneurship is fundamentally personal; that it takes human vision, intention and work to discover, innovate and turn an idea into a business. This is not a novel...
Tiago Costa found a way with WayNext
Somewhat different from my other posts about Portugal and entrepreneurship that feature raw startups is Tiago Costa and his digital marketing agency, WayNext. Founded in 2002, WayNext is the brainchild of three colleagues who...
Vera Moura, bombing cancer tumors with Treat U
31-year old Vera Moura knows that chemotherapy is a necessary evil. You need the chemicals to kill the tumors, but, unfortunately, those chemicals also create collateral damage. What if you could bomb only the targeted tumor...
Mário Zenha-Rela and Dognædis – computer science prof turns to entrepreneurship
Solving some of the world’s great online security problems wasn’t enough for researcher and computer science professor, Mário Zenha-Rela, from the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He wanted to take his research out into the...
Rising star Portuguese entrepreneur, Sérgio Santos, is organizing the web with Bundlr
Who are the young, up-and-coming entrepreneurs of Portugal who will help lift the country from its economic woes? Meet 23-year old Sérgio Santos, co-founder of Bundlr. The company’s bundling software organizes web content about...