With over 10 years of experience in non-fiction television and interactive programming, Jotica Sehgal has worked for some of the best production houses in the country and been instrumental in making some of the biggest shows successful. Her editorial and production abilities cut across a variety of genres in the…
[quote style=”boxed”]Taking the leap. Reid Hoffman once said that starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. You’re never going to have all the answers or any guarantee of success before you get started. There is a large divide between an…
[quote style=”boxed”]My ideas come from travels, meetings with different people and exchanging ideas with them.[/quote] After his business school studies in Roubaix, France, Raphael Bouchez moved to San Francisco with a Master’s degree in marketing and management. He started to work like a developer of distribution networks for leather craft…
Dave Mayer is runs Clean Designs, LLC, a sports bottle startup out of Portola Valley, CA. As an elite amateur cyclist and Ironman triathlete, Dave has been using sports bottles for years and always hated how difficult cleaning them could be. Until one day in 2008 Dave had a thought, why…
[quote style=”boxed”]Being open source means that our customers are co-collaborators with us because they can know exactly how everything works, can improve their MakerBots and share back.[/quote] Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would be even more aggressive. I would push myself even more than I have and try my best to not care at all about what other people think.[/quote] Under Dylan Whitman’s technical leadership, Flank Marketing grew to 30 accounts and grossed more than $1 million in its first year…
[quote style=”boxed”]Ideas bring themselves to life. I find that the best ideas cannot be repressed; they want out until they completely consume your sleep and waking day. So never try to force an idea – if it’s strong enough you cannot control it. When that happens, I just try to…
[quote]From my parents: it’s not about how smart you are, it’s about how hard you work.[/quote] Aaron Harris was born and raised in New Jersey, went to Harvard for a degree in history and literature, spent 4 years in finance after college and then realized he really wanted to be…
[quote style=”boxed”]Start earlier. I sometimes feel I wasted a lot of time. I could have started a few years earlier.[/quote] Hindol Sengupta is the founder, along with fellow journalist Shweta Punj, of the Whypoll Trust, India’s only open government platform. Hindol has worked for more than a decade as a…
[quote style=”boxed”]I sometimes fall asleep fantasizing about what it would be like if the Washington Redskins were a good team.[/quote] Jiyan Wei is currently the Co-Founder of BuildZoom, a site that helps connect consumers with home improvement contractors. He formerly served as Director of Product Management for Vocus (VOCS), a global…