**Special thanks to Griffin Caprio, Pek Pongpaet, Ray Hightower, Dave Hoover, and Raymond Reinhart for their contributions.**So you’re looking for talented developers, huh? Â Well you better grab a number and get in line because…
A JUVENILE BUSINESS IDEA WITH POMPEII-LIKE REPERCUSSIONS gave Kevin his first lesson in business ethics.“I was about 11 in 1980 when I made my earliest foray into business when Mount Saint Helen erupted. For some reason, my friend and I got…
The Technori team had a blast hanging out at the recent Ji-V Hack hackathon. Never heard of such a thing? Think of it as a hackers’ telethon, except rather than having set amount of time to earn a bunch of money, hackers have a set amount of…
DESIREE VARGAS-WRIGLEY DOESN’T JUST WANT YOU TO GIVE; she wants what you give to get to the right place. Her focus and find-a-way spirit were evident at an early age. “When I was growing up, I was the type of person that if there was…
ZACH KAPLAN IS A VERY DOWN TO EARTH, soft-spoken kind of guy. The kind of person it’s hard not to immediately feel a sense of trust around. Maybe that is the secret to how he has found success in multiple businesses, starting with his very…
JEFF LEITNER DOESN’T HAVE AN EXIT STRATEGY. He doesn’t believe in them. “In business schools and in business plans, they ask for exit strategies,” Leitner says. “I find that absurd. What I’ve learned at every…
AS THE SON OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS, Dan Ushman would struggle for years to find something he could focus his mind on and hopefully deter his wild tendencies. Looking back now, he started out like so many tech entrepreneurs: obsessed with…
RAISED IN A FAMILY OF SCIENTISTS, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone but Fred that he would end up working on a biotech company. He was completely burned out on science after growing up with two parents whose nightly dinner table chat was more…
By Guest Author Stella Fayman.
Funding. Startups that get it leave others wondering… “How did they do it?” No wonder: the stats are against most entrepreneurs. Only about 1 in 40 will get angel funding, and about 1 in…
“CARMEN!” by Griffin Caprio. Growing up, that’s a sound I frequently. My father, Carmen, had a knack for uniting the people at places he frequented. He could work a room, as they say, without ever leaving his…