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Interviews

Founders don’t come with instruction manuals. Neither do these interviews. What you’ll find here are real conversations with people who’ve built things. Some massive, some modest, all meaningful. They talk about what worked, what didn’t, and the stuff nobody warns you about. No highlight reels. No curated origin stories designed to make you feel bad about your Tuesday.

The founders featured here come from every industry imaginable. Tech, food, fashion, healthcare, education. Some raised millions. Others bootstrapped with pocket change and a stubborn refusal to quit. The common thread isn’t money or fame. It’s the willingness to start something when the outcome was far from guaranteed.

These interviews cover the practical stuff too. Daily routines. Biggest mistakes. The advice they’d give their younger selves. How they handle the days when nothing seems to work. Because those days happen to everyone, even the people who look like they’ve got it all figured out.

If you’re starting something, thinking about starting something, or just curious about what makes founders tick, this is a good place to spend some time. Not because every answer will apply to your situation. But because somewhere in here, someone said the thing you needed to hear.

Juha Koponen – CEO and Co-Founder of Netcycler

Juha Koponen has a D.Sc. degree in Technical Physics from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, (2000) and he was a research fellow in Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany where he conducted experiments…

Meet Juha Koponen – CEO and Co-Founder of Netcycler

Julian Keenaghan – Co-founder of Tastebuds.fm

Tastebuds.fm Co-Founder Julian Keenaghan grew up in a small town in Ireland. He graduated from University College Dublin with a 1st class BSc in Mathematical Physics and Computer Science in…

Meet Julian Keenaghan – Co-founder of Tastebuds.fm

Vote on the next IdeaMensch t-shirt

We have been working with our favorite designer ever (Christiane Holzheid) on our first series of IdeaMensch shirts ever. We are going to print a few hundred of these shirts,…

Meet Vote on the next IdeaMensch t-shirt

Patrick Meese – Lead Singer of The Centennial

Denver-based musicians Nathan and Patrick Meese, formerly of the band Meese, recently formed a new band called The Centennial. The trio is rounded out by Patrick‘s wife, Tiffany. The debut…

Meet Patrick Meese – Lead Singer of The Centennial

Anibal Damião – CEO of InfluAds

Anibal Damião is the CEO and co-founder of InfluAds, an Advertising Network serving simple, yet highly relevant ads that people actually want to see. Anibal is a Portuguese dude living…

Meet Anibal Damião – CEO of InfluAds

Nate St. Pierre – Founder of ItStartsWith.Us

Nate St. Pierre is the founder of ItStartsWith.Us, a global group of people committed to changing the world in just 15 minutes a week. He consults with organizations of any size…

Meet Nate St. Pierre – Founder of ItStartsWith.Us

Wrapping up 2010

2010 is about to come to an end. And while we have plenty of awesome interviews in the can, we are going to shut shop early and take a week…

Meet Wrapping up 2010

Jake Finkelstein – Founder and President of Method Savvy

Jake Finkelstein is the founder and president of Method Savvy, a brand marketing and business development consultancy located near Raleigh, North Carolina. Jake began his career in the music industry; most…

Meet Jake Finkelstein – Founder and President of Method Savvy

Rob Symington: Co-founder of Escape the City

Rob Symington is one half of the team behind a new website called www.escapethecity.org.They are on a mission to liberate talented professionals from unfulfilling corporate jobs. He is interested in…

Meet Rob Symington: Co-founder of Escape the City

Timothy Kelley – Founder of The Baby CD

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Timothy Kelley is an experienced business planner with extensive experience in marketing products in the medical arena. He completed his education at Northwestern…

Meet Timothy Kelley – Founder of The Baby CD

Innovation Daily Features Janice Presser’s IdeaMensch Interview

For more than 30 years, Dr. Janice Presser has been focused on teams — how healthcare teams service those in need, how families “team” with one other and how organizations enable (or inhibit) human synergy in the workplace.
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IdeaMensch October Progress

Considering that we have some pretty lofty goals for IdeaMensch, I figured it would make sense to publicly share some of the progress that we’re making. To keep our community…

Meet IdeaMensch October Progress

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