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....
Krista Paul, Usingmiles.com
Krista Paul came up with a simple solution to a problem that she (and many others) had: using your frequent flyer miles up before they expire. What’s the problem? I don’t know about you, but many of us have several (frequent...
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...
New Venturist company, Ksplice, acquired by Oracle
Yesterday, Thursday July 21, 2o11, Oracle announced that it had acquired featured New Venturist company, Ksplice: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/435791. Great going. Jeff and his team at Ksplice! Ksplice was profiled on...
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...
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...
Bharani Rajakumar & Arthur Tu: LearnBop
Many people want to do good and do well at the same time. Very few people execute on this. The two founders of LearnBop are an exception. And while they may not be there yet, because their company is a startup, they are moving in...