[quote style=”boxed”]Playing and jumping often give me the inspiration to solve some of our biggest business challenges — something they didn’t teach me at Harvard Business School.[/quote] Paresh Shah is an experienced entrepreneur, executive, and innovation consultant. He is the founder and CEO of Glimpulse, creating innovative products, services, and…
[quote style=”boxed”]”Don’t lose focus and go after the next shinny bubble you find along the way.”[/quote] Zeke Camusio, our head of business development, is a serial entrepreneur who started seven companies and sold three of them. Zeke is also a published author, an avid traveler (96 countries so far and…
[quote style=”boxed”]”If we want to become the best in something we need to learn from the best. So pick someone who has a proven track record in the areas you are interested in.”[/quote] Adriaan Smit was born to be an engineer. Always very inquisitive and from a young age spent…
[quote style=”boxed”]To do something big you have to start at the ground level yourself so you can appreciate what really needs to be done as things scale up.[/quote] Aly Khalifa is addicted to inventive culture. His firm, Gamil Design, has specialized in invention development and launched products for some of…
[quote style=”boxed”]I’d learn more about coding so I could do more of it myself, but also show more restraint in anticipating problems and throwing everything but the kitchen sink to solve them before being sure that they actually exist.[/quote] Mehmet Fidanboylu is a neuropharmacologist, musician, graphic designer, and the EQ of…
Meet Mehmet Fidanboylu – Co-founder and Director of Product at Marblar
After self-producing and licensing board games, Mary turned her passion for the joy of invention into DiscoverGames.com, the world’s largest co-op of board game inventors. Widely recognized among her peers as a toy industry visionary, Mary introduced the inaugural Chicago Toy & Game Fair (ChiTAG) at Chicago’s famous Navy Pier…
Meet Mary Couzin – Founder and President of Chicago Toy & Game Fair
[quote style=”boxed”]Do your homework, do as much market research you can effort – keep the customer in mind all the time.[/quote] Award-winning designer, Harald Kanz, founded KANZ Outdoors LLC in 2009; his mission is to share his lifelong passion for outdoor product design. As a young boy his imagination was…
[quote style=”boxed”]Keep a written list of your ideas. Jot down your ideas, no matter how crazy or unconventional they seem. Revisiting them later can yield even more insights and creative ways to tackle problems.[/quote] Colayco, 34, is a New York City-based Harvard graduate and web entrepreneur. He invented Clean Cubes…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would have immediately sold my house and paid off all my debts in order to reduce my personal burn rate to the absolute minimum.[/quote] By the time his mid-life crisis of conscience hit, Dimitri Cherny had brought to market 16 high-tech products for half a dozen companies over…
[quote style=”boxed”]Get in the habit of taking action every day and making something happen.[/quote] Niki Pfeiffer is the Founder and CEO of Niki Pfeiffer Designs and the designer behind the Wine Gabby™. As a former sales executive in the technology industry, Pfeiffer is excited to use her creative thinking and…
Meet Niki Pfeiffer – Founder and CEO of Niki Pfeiffer Designs