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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.

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

An Update for our Community

Over the past couple of weeks, you have hopefully recognized our new design. We have been busy here at IdeaMensch, and are about to get even busier – in a…

Meet An Update for our Community

Sari Crevin – Mompreneur and Founder of BooginHead

In 2005, working mother Sari Crevin created the very first prototype of SippiGrip in San Ramon, California. She was becoming frustrated when her one-year-old son, Jake, would throw his sippy…

Meet Sari Crevin – Mompreneur and Founder of BooginHead

Robert Livingstone – President and Founder of IdealCost.com

Robert Livingstone is the president and founder of IdealCost.com. He began IdealCost.com after several years of soliciting new credit card processing accounts from businesses in South Florida. After numerous awards…

Meet Robert Livingstone – President and Founder of IdealCost.com

Frank Napolitano – President and CEO of GlobalFit

Frank Napolitano joined GlobalFit (www.globalfit.com) in 2006 as President and CEO. He plays a key role in helping the company develop health and wellness programs for businesses. Using wellness education,…

Meet Frank Napolitano – President and CEO of GlobalFit

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